Cognitive dissonance. "Excellent column" and "Joni Balter" don't typically exist in the same sentence.

She had me until "Olive Garden"

How did she disappear from the Seattle Times without the slightest notice from Slog or in the media in general? What was the story?

I guess Goldy's watch is running 35 days fast.

Yep, something Goldy may have wrote. Talking about how GREAT Washington is for jobs, despite the fact that we're one of the leaders in youth unemployment in America. Also ignoring how the cost of living is pretty high in this state, so a higher MW doesn't mean squat.

But I could just as easily say "where minimum wage DID kill jobs" and talk about American Samoa. http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2011…

But Goldy probably believes American Samoa is an invention of the Koch brothers and doesn't even exist.

Liberal short sightedness on display again.

Weren't you gonna move to your Randtarded paradise Houston #7? You think Seattle is a disaster for youth, and yet trumpet the virtues of a place where, literally, shoeless poor kids with ropes for belts live in broken down shacks less than a mile from glittering sky scrapers.

Yep Seattle sucks. Less do it your way so we can be Houston ....

And 7 your single example about the tuna industry on an island with 67,000 people and maybe 1.5 other weak industries is not generalizable to a state of our size with dozens of thriving industries. It's been said before but you're either thick or disingenuous, or both.

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"Randtarded"?

By all means, make fun of me. But DON'T USE TERMS USED TO MOCK THOSE WITH DOWN'S SYNDROME TO DO SO!
So, you think it's okay to dehumanize people with mental disabilities? And it's okay to mock those you disagree with by calling them sufferers of mental disabilities? Really?

Why not say "Rander" while you're at it? (combining "Rand" with the n word) What a bigot!...but bigotry is okay, if you're a liberal.

Oh, and Mountain View, Ca, has a libertarian mayor. They have a poverty rate of 8.4%. Compare that to Seattle, run by liberals, with a poverty rate of 13.2% sources:

http://www.usacityfacts.com/ca/contra-co…

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/…

Once again, facts defeat liberalism.

Okay I said thick or dishonest but option three is that you're an agent provocateur planted to make libertarians look irrational. We just got through the idea that you can't cite an isolated anecdote and apply it universally and you hit me with "hey this wealthy suburb has lower poverty than a big city"? Well no fuckin' duh. A ficus could be mayor of Mountain View and it would have less poverty than Seattle.

You're right - saying your logic is Randtarded is an insult to the mentally challenged.