NEWS This week, SANDEEP KAUSHIK and STEFAN SHARKANSKY square off in an ideological clash of the titans to report/opine on the decision in the governor’s election lawsuit. If anyone is still awake after that (I’m certainly not) you might consider reading AMY JENNIGES on a pro-choice protest, in which lefties picketed a don’t-have-an-abortion clinic in the U-District, or perhaps ERICA C. BARNETT’s soporific analysis of both the finalized contract to build the Monorail and height limits on Broadway. For a change.
SHORT FEATURE It used to be you only had to engage in sexual congress with someone at this paper to get your work into print. Now, however, it appears you must have had the “good fortune” to emerge from the same womb as The Stranger‘s editor. As this piece by Bill Savage proves, Dan Savage may not be solely responsible for his own idiocy-apparently genetics played some sort of role. That, or maybe his mother drank?
FEATURE I’ve never been a big fan of television, but when I heard about the premise of Wonder Showzen, the new program on that MTV channel my grandchildren love so much, I have to admit even I was intrigued: racism, sexual deviance, anarchy, and hand puppets? Where do I sign up? Stranger TV columnist WM. STEVEN HUMPHREY profiles the “geniuses” behind this evil kids’ show.
GENERAL COMMENTS Words cannot express how much I hate you people.