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Mar 20

nedludd commented on Do You Want Me to Have Healthcare With That? Why Raising Restaurant Prices in Seattle Will Not End Society as We Know It.

"Joshua Henderson, founder of the Skillet Diner empire, is leading that change [adding the health insurance surcharge]" .
I guess I've had my last meal at Skillet. I don't support restaurants that publicly campaign against healthcare benefits.

Jan 9

nedludd commented on Sonics Deal Being Finalized, but Union Vows to Keep Up Lawsuit to Stop Arena.

@4 Joe: the argument is that an Environmental Impact Review process is supposed to analyze genuine alternatives to the proposed site, but that by signing the MOU with Hansen, the City has created unstoppable momentum for its desired conclusion, and that consideration of Key Arena etc is too unserious to call it a genuine review process. Of course, this could apply to almost any EIR process for any proposed project (there's always a deal already made) but that's what keeps up environmental lawyers' car payments.

Dec 3, 2012

nedludd commented on So, Will You Smoke More Pot When It's Legal?.

As a friend remarked: " when I smoke I expect to become Bob Marley, but I always end up feeling like Homer Simpson."

I'll give it another whirl when the weirdness of the acquisition experience goes away, but I'm not expecting to like it any better than I did 20 years ago.

Jun 16, 2011

nedludd commented on Now Closed: Huarachitos in Columbia City (Sad!), Oasis Cafe on Capitol Hill (Not Surprising).

I am so triste about Huarachitos. Ojala que vuelvan pronto!

May 26, 2011

nedludd commented on The Seattle Times' Celebrates a Sadistic Budget.

Goldy, don't forget the Times' happy dance over our road kill Democratic Gov and Legislators having begun to dismantle Washington's Workers Comp system. The Times didn't pretend to feel any pain. Cutting benefits for injured workers (the only way the "reform" achieves any savings), is an unqualified good as far as the bloodthirsty Blethens are concerned. The only problem for them was that the Legislature didn't finish the job: "more ...needs to be done" to injured workers, they thunder.

Oct 29, 2010

nedludd commented on NOM Supporter: We Used to Need Gay People... But We Don't Need Gay People Anymore.

I've seen the same argument applied to all men: once evolutionarily necessary, but now, with in vitro fertilization and general absence of sabre-toothed tigers, obsolete. That's a more persuasive case

Aug 17, 2010

nedludd commented on Today The Stranger Suggests.

I agree with the general sentiment here, but this particular game will be a snooze. The Storm are resting their starters as they coast to an already guaranteed top seed in the playoffs.

Jun 22, 2010

nedludd commented on Liquor-Law Backers Ready to Turn In Petitions.

It's a telling commentary on Slog's slacker and desk-jockey audience that only one commenter has mentioned the Workers Comp privatization initiative. 1082 is a far more serious and frightening move by the Right than the liquor store privatization initiative.