In the United States, Minority Babies Are Now the Majority: The Census data is in. "Population estimates show that 50.4 percent of children younger than 1 last year were Hispanic, black, Asian American or in other minority groups. That’s almost a full percentage point higher than the 49.5 percent of minority babies counted when the decennial census was taken in April 2010. Census Bureau demographers said the tipping point came three months later, in July."
The House Approved the Republican Domestic Violence Bill: No protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation, reining in of visas for illegal immigrants who are victims of domestic violence. Murray and Cantwell made their opposition known. Otherwise, Washington House reps voted along party lines.
The Mladic War Crimes Trial: Suspended indefinitely because of a procedural hitch. Mladic is on trial for "the systematic murder by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Mladic of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Bosnia's Srebrenica enclave in July 1995, Europe's worst massacre since World War II."
Iran Is Sending Arms to Syria: And the US and Russia line up on opposing sides of support.
Iran Is Also: Pissed at Google for omitting the name Persian Gulf on its maps.
Facebook Is Going Public Tomorrow: What will your status update be? Advertisers aren't feeling it.
NBA and NHL in Seattle: Looking like just a matter of time. "Memorandum of Understanding" signed yesterday, here's Goldy's look at the young future owner, who didn't have what it took to be a basketball player but wants to become a "quiet" owner.
...And With the Stadium Comes a New 25-Story Apartment Tower in Pioneer Square?: It's all designy and whatnot (the designers are ZGF Architects). In fact, it looks like silver boxes stacked on each other. (Sort of like a hulky, inelegant version of the New Museum in New York.)
Piecing Together the Story of the Shoreline Murder: The two victims were cousins, both students at Shoreline High School. He's in stable condition now. She was trying to defend him in a "dispute [he] had with a female resident of the complex."
Are You Busy Tuesday Nights, Seattle?: Because you may want to join the inspiring weekly protest at St. James Cathedral against the Vatican's persecution of nuns working for social justice.
A Horse Swam Two Miles, Y'all: He is a 7-year-old white Arabian named William.
High-Profile Chinese Dissident Who Once Worked to Fight Forced Abortions: One step closer to coming to the US.
Penn Cove Shellfish: In limbo after the oil spill earlier this week.
A New Major Investor in a Local Newspapers Company: Warren Buffett.
Hawaii: First state in the nation to ban plastic bags at the checkout counter. THEY ARE STRANGLING THE DOLPHINS. (And other bad things.)
The Dwindling Kennedys: RFK Jr's estranged wife found dead at age 52, apparent suicide.
Frank Gehry Updates His Eisenhower Memorial Design: It still appears to be Eisenhowerianly dull. In the past, people have wondered whether Gehry even likes Eisenhower. Memorials: the worst new public artworks we have. (Remember the authoritarian white MLK that opened last year?)
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg is one of my favorite violinists. I still put her "Humoresque" on repeat. Not only is she a great player, she's not doing that vacant-sex-kitten-classical-soloist bullshit. She's playing with Seattle Symphony this weekend, and they're also doing Mozart's Requiem. Go.
