Conflicting reports from Libya: State run media claim major victories against rebels, and say gunfire in Tripoli is the sound of celebrations not fighting. Government spokesman says:

I assure you, I assure you, I assure you, there is no fighting going on in Tripoli. Everything is safe. Tripoli is 100% under control. What you are hearing is celebratory fireworks. People are in the streets, dancing in the square.

Some witnesses disagree.

Silly, perhaps, but a far preferable foreign policy strategy than building bombs: @america promotes brand USA in Indonesia.

Speaking of bombs: Sad news from Afghanistan, Washington soldier dies from roadside bomb blast.

Big Parade comes to an end. Frank W. Buckles, last U.S. WWI veteran, dies at 110.

Diversity one statue at a time: Harriet Tubman enthusiasts eye Maryland patriot John Hanson’s marble pedestal in U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall. If bill passes Tubman’s would be first African American statue out of 100.

Pleading inequality: New York gay man gets out of jury duty.

Time to rethink those comfy plush seats: Study finds hazardous fecal and skin born bacteria, including MRSA, on BART train seats.

We’ll be breathing easy by 2025. Plans made to shutter Washington’s biggest polluter, Centralia’s Trans-Alta coal plant.

It looked like Mount St. Helens: Says witness to North Seattle motel explosion, allegedly caused by disturbed mental health patient.

Everybody loves a neighborhood park, but nobody wants to pay for them. Former Dept. of Parks and Rec. calls Seattle park system “totally unsustainable.”

For your Sunday morning viewing pleasure: Timmy Spence’s 1981 music video “Brand New Dance” featuring San Francisco’s Sluts a Go-Go:

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  1. Your excellent video is triggering all sorts of 80s flashbacks, when my style guide was the wardrobe worn by Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan. And while your Morning News is practically perfect, just like Mary Poppins, you did miss this headline from your friends up north at the Vancouver Sun:
    “Thongs not a deductible expense.”

    (gus! wake up! I have news.)

  5. You can’t be a peer on a jury if you’re a second class citizen.
    This upsets a basic tenet of our democracy. If a gay person is on trial and he elects to be judged by a jury of his “peers”, that would mean the jury has to be LGBT. Very interesting.

  7. Re: the Statuary Hall replacement, the WaPo article briefly describes Ronald Reagan’s statue replacing that of dismissively-mentioned Thomas Starr King as one of two statues for California. Weirdly, the entire last third of the print version of the WaPo article is a corrupted link to an earlier Orange County Weekly article by the fabulous Matt Coker, which you can find here:

    http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-…

    tl;dwr? Thomas Starr King was a Unitarian Universalist minister and abolitionist whose leadership and oratory helped keep California on the Union side during the Civil War.

    The guy who ramrodded Reagan’s erection to Statuary Hall? That would be butterball real-estate-scamming, out-of-wedlock-wick-dipping Representative Ken Calvert, still the Congress-cretin for California’s 44th District.

    http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006…

    http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2601/…

    History is fun.

  8. @rob! ….and by “fun”, of course you mean depressing, appalling, and out of touch with everything that is meaningful, right? Sigh…at least Harriet Tubman makes me smile, her biography was one my mom made sure to have me read when I was a kid.

  10. Indeed, Canuck. I’m comforted by the thought that decades hence when Harriet Tubman is bumped by a congressional product of our future educational system (“How important could she be, anyway? I never heard anything about her in school!”) in favor of some “patriot” industrialist who brought billions in defense contracts to Maryland, California can bring her to stand alongside Thomas Starr King, who now resides in the Civil War Grove of Sacramento’s Capitol Park.

  12. Seattle Parks.

    Gee, you could see that one coming from a mile away.

    The “density & infrastructure” crowd now that it’s ruined housing and bankrupted government, says suddenly there “isn’t enough money” to run a park (which, by the way, is mostly open land).

    How soon before the city will have to “sell off” the parkland to the usual criminals?

    And no doubt the fools at SLOG will be cheering…

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