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Nov 9 Cow commented on Americablog Launches Boycott of DNC.

What about the Democrats' promise to the 51.5% of the population that just got written out of the healthcare bill?

Nov 4 Cow commented on How Many Ballots Are Left to Count?.

I'm a Seattle voter living in Vancouver, and I forgot to even request my ballot until 4:15pm on Election Day. I did get it postmarked in time (up here our post offices are open until 8:00) so that's one more for McGinn, probably arriving in a couple of days.

Jun 17 Cow commented on A Note to Our Readers.

:(, indeed. Good luck, Erica. You'll be missed.

The Stranger never really replaced Josh, and I doubt they'll find a good replacement for you, either.

Jun 16 Cow commented on Something You Can Do.

Just curious: wouldn't it also be good for the protesters to randomly set their locations to other places? If they all have "Tehran" listed, uh, seems like a red flag...

Jun 1 Cow commented on Critical Mass, a Suggestion.

@12 You, sir, are no Mahatma Gandhi.

Non-violent protest works when the cause is actually just. "Support children with entitlement complexes" isn't quite the same.

May 30 Cow commented on Yesterday's Critical Mass Ride.

Hey, if we tear down the viaduct and do surface-transit, what will the CMers do?!

(CM has always confused me--and I don't own a car, and bike pretty much everywhere. I don't really get what 'advocacy' or 'awareness-raising' goes on. Call a spade a spade: it looks like a really fun ride, and being a dick in traffic can be awesome fun. But let's not cloak it in some faux-progressive verbage.)

May 28 Cow commented on High-Speed Rail to Vancouver?.

The second train a day thing is infuriating, though, as someone who takes that rail line quite frequently. The trains are full every Fri/Sat/Sun. The schedule is horrible, but people still ride it because it's better than dealing with bus or car customs and it's a beautiful ride. WSDOT and BCMOT put in money to upgrade the rail lines, and it's ready to go; we were promised last August, but the Harper government screws it.

(The Amtrak Cascades schedule still says 'coming soon!')

What would that second train a day mean? Not only more tourism and more rail for BC, but it would mean a train that goes from Vancouver, pauses in Seattle, and continues on to Portland (and vice versa).

May 14 Cow commented on Reading Tonight.

Catherine Wing is also excellent--quite different in style from Cody Walker, but they're both very fine poets. Plus, Richard Kenney (a recent member of the poetry chain on Slog) is hosting it.

I am very sad I'm not free to go to the reading.

May 8 Cow commented on Fleeing the Clone Farms.

“Facing the projects and their captive populace of thousands are a nasty little Chinese restaurant, a Western Union that cashes child-support payments and a liquor store named Liquor Store, with more bulletproof glass than the Popemobile.”

...If that's the highlighted piece of this book, I really hate to imagine the rest of the prose.