NEWS Having witnessed their favorite civic blunder, the monorail, explode in their faces like a cartoon cigar, The Stranger news staff continues throwing tantrums. This week finds ERICA C. BARNETT assigned to stage the convulsive fit. Then, as a follow-up (how exactly does one follow up on idiocy? With outright lunacy? Evidently so…) DAN SAVAGE rants incomprehensibly about Mayor Greg Nickels pulling his support for said blunder. ALSO: AMY JENNIGES files a boggling story on a fine establishment run by a military gentleman named Colonel Sanders, ERICA C. BARNETT returns with some words on strip clubs, and ELI SANDERS offers a blathering addendum to his feature on grieving mothers from last week. And finally, to ensure every last one of us has lapsed into a coma, the entire squad joins together to chronicle primary-election-night parties. Whew—that’s a whole lot of unreadable tripe!
PULLOUTReverend Buddy’s Back to School Bible Every year The Stranger‘s powers-that-be attempt to indoctrinate young and impressionable students with a “back to school” guide. This year’s ruse—filled, predictably, with any number of obscenities and outright fabrications—not only attacks common sense, but Christianity as well. Note to students new to the area: If you’re looking for an intelligent, useful publication, discard this affront to journalistic ethics and pick up the Seattle Weekly.