If we're throwing implications around, PS to The Stranger: Don't sexually harass your interns.

im surprised lawyers havent had a go at amazon.com for the culture of harassment/discrimination towards women.

a good friend who works in midlevel management at AWS says the office culture is like going back 30+ years in time. no woman in Sr Managemnt and an old boys attitude wrapped up in a hi-tech ribbon.

Big sigh about Hillary. Everybody feel the Bern!

Dear Mother Nature----please extinguish all the wildfires in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia! And rest in peace, firefighters who lost their lives near Twisp. Climate change from fossil fuel overuse and over-industrialization are destroying this planet and the future of all living beings on Earth.

Can't the GOP just DIE, already? Can't all their Congress members, senators, House Of Republicans, lobbyists, McConnell, Boehner, Christie the Hut, the 4 SCOTUS Pigs in Robes and presidential hopefuls (including Rick-former-Governor-"Ooops!" Perry-Texas) go over a cliff in a privately chartered campaign bus on its way to the Republican Convention?

Sad about the senseless rising death toll of transgender individuals.

@2 Cassette tape fan: AWS sounds like a shitty place to work if you're not a rich, white, corrupt, male chauvinist asshole, and another business to boycott. The description of the Amazon workplace as the New Navy SEALS of the Tech World gives me chills.

The recent news of the Cascadia Subduction Zone about 70 miles off the Washington and Oregon coasts, stretching from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to the San Andreas Fault in Northern California and related warnings about how unprepared we really are in the Pacific Northwest when the next Big One comes (and elaborating further in in an eye-opening article in The New Yorker magazine) has me worried about facing the aftermath later if I'm still alive.
A catastrophic disaster the intensity of the 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima, Japan on 03/04/2011 happening in our part of the world has become predicted as an increasing likelihood of not if but when, despite the long dormant silence of our mountains and shifting continental plates.

This is going to make the historic volcanic eruption of Mount Saint Helens back on Sunday, May 18, 1980 at 8:32 am (talk about a rude awakening!) seem like a Universal Studios thrill ride by comparison. The explosion from the eruption could be heard and vibrations felt from over 200 miles away.

@7: Gee, and you are just yet another hopelessly stupid, typically name-calling GOP apologist troll spewing with no point whatsoever. I'm not out to mass murder anyone, just wishing the reprehensibly destructive Republican and Tea Parties THEMESLVES would disband and that our nation's democracy, human rights, economy, environmental protections, infrastructure, housing and educational needs for all will be restored.