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Bringing out the Qana dead (photo: Nasser Nasser/AP)
The IDF seems to meet its Waterloo in the village of Qana whenever it invades Lebanon. In 1996, during Operation Grapes of Wrath (another anti-Hezbollah military action) the army shelled a UN peacekeeping position that happened to house refugees fleeing the battles. More than 100 […]

Mel Gibson, drunken anti-Semite (source: European Pressphoto Agency
Well, it’s finally happened. Mel Gibson has finally allowed the liquor to loosen his tongue enough so that he can get all of those anti-Semitic slurs he’s been harboring for so long out of his system. I’m sure he feels he’s a better man for […]

Football season has arrived. Yes, training camp = football season. Who cares that the first meaningful game is still 6 weeks away. Patience, grasshopper. For now, we enjoy what we have — namely, a training camp like none other in Seahawks’ history.
Seriously, I challenge you to read JM Romero’s Day 1 recap in the Times […]

They finally did it. The folks at Daily Kos have sunk so low it’s downright embarrassing. You see, I published a post here and at Dkos a month ago or so saying that Kos and all political bloggers should maintain higher standards of disclosure in their blogs. They should inform their readers […]

It would only set you back about $650 to take a casual thirty minute meander through Elliott Bay aboard M/Y Barchetta. At least that’s the rate you’d be paying if you spent one half-hour out of your $220,000 week. That’s…

The Seattle Times has new reporting on the Seattle Jewish Federation shooting case. Yesterday, many were wondering how the suspect could’ve breached fairly tight security designed to prevent just such types of incidents. Here is the answer:
The gunman who forced his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle on […]

It would only set you back about $650 to take a casual thirty minute meander through Elliott Bay aboard M/Y Barchetta. At least that’s the rate you’d be paying if you spent one half-hour out of your $220,000 week. That’s…

Campos Reales 2003 Tempranillo
According to the Francisco Aragon Guiller (another wine blogger who is an exceptional writer by the way): In the glass, this young Tempranillo shows through in ruby with violet tones. The aromatic profile includes well defined notes of strawberry, blackberry, red fruit, toasted vanilla, light smoke, oak, pepper and an exotic spice element. […]

Everett rules. Wow, there’s two words I never thought I’d put next to each other. Last weekend I tagged along with Angela and Dylan to her mom’s house…in Everett. It was a real grown up house with big comfy furniture, a big screen TV with more channels than are reasonably surfable, a backyard complete with […]

It is important when hatred strikes, as it did yesterday here in Seattle, to invoke the dead, to celebrate them as human beings, to appreciate what they brought to life so that he may feel all the more what has been lost. And we also must note the killer because he is a human […]