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May 3 alight commented on Who Is More Qualified for Public Office?.

I vote yes.

Apr 1 alight commented on Where and How Do You Buy Your Liquor?.

The one time I went to a no-longer-state-run liquor store (the one on Rainier Ave around Genesee), the new owner treated me to a (boring) diatribe about how everyone was just buying their booze at the grocery store even though they weren't any cheaper.
Since then, I just pick it up when I'm grocery shopping, usually at Red Apple on Beacon Hill. For crazy selection, BevMo and Wine World are both great. For fancy Washington/NW distillery stuff, Metropolitan Market is great; it's definitely a specialty place, but an interesting one.

Mar 29 alight commented on Alaska's Only Congressman Calls Mexicans Wetbacks.

Another way for the congressman to say what I think he meant would be this: "My father had a ranch; we used to have 50-60 undocumented migrant farm workers to pick tomatoes." I think it's less racist, but still a highly problematic comment for a member of congress to make.

Mar 25 alight commented on If You Say Your Show Starts at 7, You Should Probably at Least Try to Start by 7.

By contrast, I had tickets with friends for a show at the Rep on Friday. I was on time, they didn't show 'til intermission. Turns out they were 3 minutes late (so they said) which meant they couldn't walk down the aisle to their seat but had to sit in sort of a holding area and see the play on a monitor or something. They seemed irritated, but none of us faulted the policy. "Starts promptly at 7" or "doors at 7, show at 7:30" is the right fix.
And @14, yeah. Music always runs late, in part because of the breakdown/setup of different bands. Nice thing about theater: that's all done hours in advance.

Mar 19 alight commented on "Why can't I see the Space Needle?" A Letter to the Editor.

There's a Renton U-Haul with a Space Needle solution for all you whiners. It involves plywood and a little bit of good old-fashioned American can-do spirit. Every neighborhood can have their own, for cheap. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/2549

Mar 15 alight commented on Shut Down: Seattle Tofu Company and Restaurant Had "Rodents (Live and Dead) and Rodent Feces in the Processing Facility," Among Other Horrors.

In comparison, Northwest Tofu's problem with 'inadequate hand washing facilities' is no big deal. I kind of want to know whether it was one pigeon or multiple pigeons on the vats at this place.

Mar 14 alight commented on On Being Solicited for Sex.

It's happened twice to me--once a couple decades ago at 2nd & Pike (waiting for a bus in the middle of the afternoon) and last summer across the street from my house (I live off Rainier Ave S & have shooed hookers out of my driveway more than once).
Both times I felt so astonished I don't think much at all crossed my mind. The more recent one was funnier, because my reply to his request mentioned my husband, causing the dude to cartoonishly freak out and zoom off, laughing. It felt like the astonishment was mutual.

Mar 11 alight commented on Elementary School Rejects PETA's Offer of "Free Lunch".

Aside from the propaganda issue, public schools are going to have very detailed contracts with their lunch providers that would likely make this impossible. Which PETA would have known if they had done about five minutes of homework.

Feb 27 alight commented on Wait, That's GMO, Too?.

I'm a big supporter of the initiative & helped collect signatures for it, but my own feeling is that it's not about the possible safety or hazards of genetic engineering. I just think that consumer information has no real downside for the citizenry. If you think they're safe, you can buy them, and if you think they're not, you can work to avoid them. Hope i522 passes!

Feb 26 alight commented on Mediterranean-Diet Research Stuns Researchers, Leads to a Startling Percentage of High-Risk People Not Getting Heart Attacks and Dying.

Mamnoon is a missing restaurant, and it's right on Cap Hill. Weird oversight.

And for recipes: invest in (or borrow from the library) Ottolenghi's books Plenty (which is vegetarian) and Jerusalem (which is omnivorous but slanted towards vegetables). Crazy good food, and as a nice bonus, almost all the most common vegetables in the books are grown in WA, including lentils and chickpeas.