Soldier in London Dead in Apparent Terrorist Attack by Machete: It happened in broad daylight in the middle of London yesterday afternoon.
Some of Our New State Insurance Plans May Not Cover Abortion: Cienna reports on the troubling news via Planned Parenthood; the insurance commissioner disagrees with PP’s numbers, in a complicated fashion. Either way: Just fucking pass the Reproductive Parity Act already.
The Boy Scouts Still Voting on Gay Rights: Today, a big vote on whether to lift the ban on gay Scouts. Gay leaders would still be banned, which is weird and dumb.
Cal Anderson Park: Getting a ranger, says the city.
Shot in the Mouth! And you’re to bla-aame, you give love a bad name… A West Seattle man, out walking his dog, was unexpectedly shot in the mouth yesterday, possibly by a BB gun.
Your Facebook Password Is Safe for Now: At least from your employer, after Governor Inslee signs a bill barring employers from requesting social media passwords in interviews. Washington is the fifth state this year to pass such a law.
Two Seattle-Area Medical Pot Dispensaries Raided This Week: But by burglars this time, and the cops are investigating.
The Economics of Pot: NPR interviews a young dealer who moved from the West Coast to NYC, where the “100 percent illegal” status of weed quadrupled his income. “Chuck sells marijuana for about $60 for an eighth of an ounce; in California, it would be anywhere from $30 to $45.”
Why’d People Break Windows on May Day? Our news intern Ansel Herz answers the question.
Lonely Island Debut Semicolon Song: That the only song ever written about semicolons actually uses them wrong hurts my heart; others are also copyediting the video. (Must be how every English professor in the ’90s felt about the not-actually-about-irony “Ironic.”) But it still makes me laugh…
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