TODAY
Seattle Public Superintendent Maria Goodloe-Johnson hosts a Community Coffee Chat. Ask her if we got our school levy endorsement right. (West Seattle Elementary, 6760 34th Ave. S.W., 6 to 7 p.m., free)
TUESDAY
City Council’s Budget Committee is holding a public hearing on the 2011 budget. You can submit ideas and comment on those already posted online. If this hearing is as half as much fun as watching council meetings online, you’re in for a barrel of motherfucking monkeys, guys! (Council Chambers, 5 p.m., free)
It doesn’t have quite the pizazz of “rum, sodomy, and the lash,” but the Booze, Taxes, and Democracy event being put on by the Associated Students of UW is going to be fun. Representatives from both sides of initiatives 1098, 1100, and 1105 will be participating and taking open questions from the crowd. Worth attending just to see if the two blond anti-liquor initiative hecklers from our debate show up. (UW Campus, Odegaard 220, 7 to 8:30 p.m., free)
WEDNESDAY
The Maple Leaf Community Council hosts a candidate forum. The headliners are Congressman Jim McDermott and the increasingly colorful Justice Richard Sanders. Representatives from the initiative campaigns are also expected. (Olympic View Elementary, 504 NE 95th St., 7 to 9 p.m., free)
I predict at the Budget Hearing that Seattle City Council will respectfully listen to the voters and then give away all the money to their Billionaire and Millionaire friends even though we Citizens don’t want them to.
But, hey, in the war between the Millionaires and the Citizens, Council is just a rubber stamp for the Powers That Be – and citizens to them are just serfs, to be ground mercilessly under their heels while they smile at us and enjoy our pain.
Serfs, eh? Did Will just make a Hayek allusion? Have you been watching Glenn Beck lately, Will?
Selma Hayek?
Very funny, Stranger. Dr. Goodloe-Johnson couldn’t tell you how she feels about our district; that would involve having feelings FOR our district. I love you kids but you need to get a clue (or two) about Seattle Public Schools.
Let’s just wait for the next audit on the capital building program; then, let’s see what questions you’ll blithely toss off to her.
Now all I can think about is drugs, sodomy, and the lash.
Oh wait…that’s actually not much of a change.
Whoops, my Freudian slip is showing. “Rum, sodomy, and the lash.”
I would tell you to join the Royal Navy, but they probably won’t have room for you after the latest round of defense cuts.
@6 what kind of rum?
Little known fact, most combat field engineers get rum rations too, not just the Navy.