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I’ve never been a huge Stephen Colbert fan, probably because I jumped on the Daily Show bandwagon after he had departed to The Colbert Report, and the latter hasn’t ever really floated my boat. That being said, I have to give major props to the guy for taking satire to a whole new level at this year’s White House Correspondents Ball. He showed some real balls saying the things he said in front of that audience. If you haven’t seen it yet, the CSPAN broadcast is available via BitTorrent. If you catch the full broadcast, the little bit the president did with his top impersonator was pretty funny, too.

One of the great things about web feeds is that your readers don’t really notice when your site goes down for almost a week straight. Well, unless you post as much as someone like Robert Scoble does, but I’m not that crazy.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why this story isn’t on the Tri-City Herald’s web site, but at this moment it’s not.
Title this, “How to kill good will in one easy step.”
Shaun Alexander was committed to an appearance yesterday in Moses Lake at a dinner and charity auction with Ultimate Warrior Christian […]

I’ve never seen the Kronos Quartet in concert before and decided to see them tonight at Seattle’s Moore Theater. But my main reason for going was not to see Kronos, but to hear their collaboration with their newest world music performer, Rahman Asadollahi. Asadollahi is the world’s greatest garmon performer, an Azeri form […]

It appears that the U.S. is not the only country with a failed defense secretary/minister. Sol Salbe turned me on to Akiva Eldar’s latest Haaretz column: Hammer Blows. In it, Eldar appraises Shaul Mofaz’s abysmal tenure as defense minister (Olmert has just bestowed the ministry on Amir Peretz and Mofaz will be leaving […]

Another NFL draft, another success for Tim Ruskell and the Seattle Seahawks. Given that the team’s stated needs coming into the draft were an impact CB and a pass-rushing DE, it’s hard to imagine the Hawks could’ve done much better — at least on paper — than they did today.
Some early reaction and quotes about […]

Just read about Neil Young’s Living With War (hear it) in the NY Times today. I’ve got to say that while Jon Pareles showed some appreciation for the significance of the project there was also much he didn’t “get” about it. First, this is a musical project quite unlike any ever attempted. […]

This is getting pretty impressive. First it’s Shaun Alexander landing the Madden 2007 cover. And now Matt Hasselbeck lands a national endorsement deal with Campbell’s Chunky Soup.
He’ll be joined by Ben Roethlisberger and Donovan McNabb (again/still), and all their moms. MattHass talked to JM Romero in today’s Times, and makes it sound like these […]

Alan Durning of the Sightline Institute and his family have recently decided to live at least one year without a car after the untimely passing of their Volvo. Alan has been blogging about his new experiment on The Daily Score, the Sightline Institute’s blog. (Incidentally, The Daily Score is the best Pacific Northwest environmental […]

Last night I met with a few friends at an up and coming wine bar on Queen Anne in Seattle. Bricco, has opened up fairly recently, and was packed all evening.  I had a very enjoyable time and am looking forward to going back soon.  On to the wine of the week, which we had last night.
2004 Ceretto […]