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Jen Graves
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Your thug is broken.
on January 28, 2014 at 9:14 AM Report this
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The Sawant salary news is so big it gets mentioned twice, or is that just the Slog echo chamber ?
ChefJoe on January 28, 2014 at 9:16 AM Report this
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Is your Kshama broken, too?

Or, is the news so nice you have to say it twice?
on January 28, 2014 at 9:19 AM Report this
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Jen has baroque The Slog.
on January 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM Report this
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In honor of Pete Seeger's environmental activism, a new link between DDT and Alzheimer's, with a Sloggerrific pull quote:
..."Alzheimer’s is a complex disease and there isn’t one single factor driving it," cautioned study author Jason Richardson, of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School...

...In recent years, researchers have focused on locating specific genetic defects responsible for this type of dementia, Richardson said. The Rutgers study offers further evidence that genes alone probably aren’t the whole explanation; pesticide exposure may play a role.

He cited a colleague’s saying: "Genetics loads the gun. Environment pulls the trigger."

rob! on January 28, 2014 at 9:27 AM Report this
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It's easy for Sawant to donate her salary since she won't need to spend another dime on campaigns as long as The Stranger is around to treat her first day on the job like the March on Washington. Goldy's bleating about The Times giving McKenna free advertising is starting to look hypocritical.
Sir Vic on January 28, 2014 at 9:33 AM Report this
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Everyone knows where the word "thug" comes from. It's a reference to the Thuggee cult of India, which would waylay and strangle travelers either to rob them or as a sacrifice to Kali, a Hindu death-goddess.
venomlash on January 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM Report this
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@6, it's also easy since her husband is brining home a nice paycheck from Microsoft
Cato the Younger Younger on January 28, 2014 at 9:54 AM Report this
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I grew up listening to Pete Seeger. It's a smaller, sadder, and less tuneful world without him.
deadrose on January 28, 2014 at 9:57 AM Report this
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Are there SOTU watch parties around town like there were for the presidential debates? I'd appreciate suggestions, especially ones in Cap Hill, Downtown, or nearby neighborhoods.
green_fox on January 28, 2014 at 10:05 AM Report this
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@2, 6, 9

It will get worse for white racists.
seatackled on January 28, 2014 at 10:13 AM Report this
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Awesome video at the end. What a wonderfully positive man.
The CHZA on January 28, 2014 at 10:19 AM Report this
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@2 you appear to have trouble counting to "1".
JonnoN on January 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM Report this
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@12: Are you insinuating that 2, 6, and 9 are racists? If so, why?
raindrop on January 28, 2014 at 10:35 AM Report this
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@14

Jen's original post actually had the news about Kshama in it twice. Jen corrected it.

...as to the remainder of ChefJoe's comment, well, that's on him.
on January 28, 2014 at 11:03 AM Report this
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@17, does she receive alimony? Did she receive half of their joint wealth upon divorce, as Washington law stipulates? She could very easily be a wealthy woman. Giving away part of her salary is silly grandstanding.
Fnarf on January 28, 2014 at 11:46 AM Report this
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@17, you should read #22.

BTW, I usually agree with you on most things but I find it interesting you go on the attack on people without reason.

Here's what I suggest: LET'S MEET IN PERSON!! I'd suggest a coffee shop somewhere close to downtown. And let's arrange it on line so we can put real faces behind your outrage and you can see who this person is who you are calling a racist.

The ball is in your court!!!
Cato the Younger Younger on January 28, 2014 at 12:18 PM Report this
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@19, @14, @12 - I've been called many things, but a racist that can't count beyond 1 is certainly new. Congrats on being such "special" snowflakes.
ChefJoe on January 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM Report this
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@17 Still waiting for your answer......you name the place and time. Let's make this meeting happen!!
Cato the Younger Younger on January 28, 2014 at 12:42 PM Report this
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@24, I've been called racist twice on Slog: today and one time awhile back by Dominic for pointing out I didn't like taking the cabs in Seattle because most of them never seemed to be cleaned of the rotting food containers in the back seat.

It's how you "win" arguments on Slog when the facts don't pan out for you or if someone presents new facts that don't fit your agenda.
Cato the Younger Younger on January 28, 2014 at 12:48 PM Report this
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@26 I'm a little puzzled too. I'm an equal opportunity cynic & misanthrope, thank you very much.
Besides, someone had to close rob!'s dangling bold format.
Sir Vic on January 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM Report this
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R.I.P. Pete Seeger.

Great video of him and Johnny Cash performing. I remember seeing that as a kid.
Frank Blethen's vodka distiller on January 28, 2014 at 1:49 PM Report this
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@27, I was just going back to fix it when your comment popped up. I usually type a short word like "test" at the end of a comment and then preview just to make sure my tags aren't garbled, but I had to force-quit my browser because it was bogging down and the copy/paste didn't get done correctly. Thanks.
rob! on January 28, 2014 at 1:55 PM Report this
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Who called anyone racist, other than raindrop, for starters. There's definitely a weird reaction to Sawant that often falls along racial, gender, and nativist lines, but no one knows if @2, @6, @9 are white, black, green or purple, so while Sawant's rise definitely makes it "worse for white racists," the defensive responses are more telling than any comment I made here.
seatackled on January 28, 2014 at 2:35 PM Report this
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@30: Please read @16. Then then read the first sentence of @30. Then read @16 again.
raindrop on January 28, 2014 at 5:01 PM Report this

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