The late Mitch Hedberg tackled the escalator conundrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n1ryH3i…

Big loads of shit have been the premium product of Alabama since the USA began. Another few rail cars of manure are right at home.

The ‘press’ has been relentless in it’s attacks on the President, but it only bounces back on them.
Their credibility with the public continues to drop.
This is BadForOurDemocracy.
But they seem unwiling or unable to help themselves.
It has become an addiction.

"It's probably time to accept that the U-District we all knew and loved is now a thing of the past."

You had a very different impression of that area than I did. Even when I lived there in the mid aughts, it was mostly a shithole. Bring on the modernization, I say. In this one case, I will agree with Mudede in that the U District is an architectural wasteland (among its many forms of wasteland).

What a brave, tremendous, amazing, genius president we have. He'd run straight into a school with an active shooter without a moment's hesitation, but is terrified of a room of people making jokes about him. Thank goodness we have people like Yosemite/Rushmore/Benjamin/WhateverTrollAccountHe'sUsingThisWeek to support him, or he'd be too inconsolable to be so tremendous.

If you care about a habitable planet for your grandchildren, legalizing housing next to large job centers and on top of high quality/capacity mass transit is a pretty unqualified good worthy of celebration.

I want to play kickball in the rain!

Mariner pitcher James Paxton is Canadian. Coincidence?

You do have to admire Paxton's sang-froid in response. Not sure how I'd respond to a giant raptor flying around near my face but it would probably include a fair amount of screaming and flailing about.

Sheryl Sanderg just said on NPR this morning that Facebook is going to provide political ad information nationwide, voluntarily. We'll see if they can get our little city midterm election right first.

@9: Bald eagles can not harm those who truly love freedom, so those who treasure liberty deep in their hearts do not know such fear.

The escalator by the Roosevelt Whole Foods to go up to the Starbucks is frequently down but still available for use.

@14 as if a DINO was going to change shit but disenfranchise more people from elections. It's akin to grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory, the favorite tactic of establishment Democrats.

That new development in the U District will have 227 rental apartments over retail, but just 32 underground parking spaces - presumably on the assumption that no one in that building needs a car, because...

But just you wait. Scores of new residents will park their cars (vehicles they're not supposed to need, because...) on the streets.

The city will then have to deal with the high demand for on-street parking by making the area a Restricted Parking Zone (if it isn't already) and sell residents of that building RPZ permits - at ridiculously low rates, basically subsidizing the storage of private property on public land.

And THEN, all hell will break loose when Metro and/or SDOT try to eliminate on-street parking to install bus and/or bike lanes. The retailers in that building will complain that business will suffer if 'their' parking is eliminated by the city (see Crosscut's recent piece on this at https://crosscut.com/2018/04/seattle-cit…).

Wash/Rinse/Repeat

@2) Okay, you want to try to compare Alabama 'assets' vs 'liabilities' as a measure? Is that where your pea brain wants to go?

The Hawaii doctor assisted suicide thing.... It's great that there are laws that give people this option. However, as I discovered with my mom's bout with terminal cancer, there aren't many doctors out there willing to do it. In fact, I was so white-hot with rage that her family doctor of 20 years that most likely misdiagnosed her cancer to begin with was indignant that we would even ask such a thing! She made us feel like morally depleted criminals for even broaching the subject. The search went on and on until we found an organization that advocated for it and helped us locate the two doctors required for the prescription.

For the second year in a row, Trump will not be at the event celebrating the First Amendment. It’s probably hard to face a room full of reporters after you spend the rest of your time delegitimizing all of their work and their entire profession.

If media quit pushing its corporatist agenda (not going to happen), demagogues like Trump wouldn't have such an easy time claiming they are propaganda outlets (for mostly the wrong reasons of course)

@12: That just made my morning. Thank you.

@13:

However, the Saturn V was actually developed by former SS Untersturmführer, Werner Von Braun and his team of ex-Nazi rocket scientists, so there's that.

@12:

Well, that certainly explains this...

@12 quoting the Libertarian wingnut bible?

@13
The Marshall space flight center was run by Wernher von Braun. He also designed the Saturn rocket.
Wernher von Braun was a Nazi.
He also developed the v-2 rocket for Nazi Germany.
He also ran the plant where the V2 was manufactured using slave labor from a nearby concentration camp.
He was brought to the United States by the US military during Operation Paperclip.
Do they teach all that to the children at Space Camp?
They might, since all of this information is freely available on NASA's website.
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/hi…

@2
The train car full of crap isn't the product of Alabama, it's the product of New York and New Jersey.

@23
You beat me to it.

After the war ended, we were snatching up kraut scientists like hot cakes. You don't believe me? Walk into NASA sometime and yell "Heil Hitler" and WOOP! They all jump straight up!

We also made a deal with Japan to get the research they obtained through Unit 731, which may be some of the worst medical experiments ever carried out by humanity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

@26: Lighten up, Francis.

RE: Vegan burgers

I've never understood why vegans are always trying to simulate meat products. There's tons of great vegetable dishes that embrace the vegetables, not try to hide them as "pretend meat." If you only eat veg, just embrace it.

@30

I know, it's weird, right? Almost as if there were something about the human organism that's just helplessly attracted to the flavors, scents, and textures of meat, in addition to those of fruits and tubers and processed soybean extracts.

@30:

I'm not the least bit vegan, but I've been buying pea protein-based meatless/dairly-free products such as Beyond Burger & Daiya simply as a way to cut down on my overall animal consumption (my wife is lactose, gluten, and soy-intolerant, so traditional animal substitutes such as Tofurkey, Boca & soy cheeses for example aren't viable options).

I suspect the attempts to make these products resemble their animal-based counterparts as much as possible has less to do with making them attractive to vegans so much as it is to make them attractive to people like myself who probably aren't going to swear off animal protein completely, but who are willing to use it as an occasional alternative.

@30 @31 Guys, many vegetarians and vegans enjoy the taste of some kinds of meat occasionally. It's the way Big Agri tortures the animals they grow for human consumption that we can't swallow. The huge costs to our planet and the meat industry's huge requirements for ever more scarce fresh water resources are also of great concern. We would like to be able to eat without robbing future generations of a livable planet, and driving half the Earth's species into extinction. There's no reason why we should suffer needlessly while doing it - should some of us enjoy a variety of flavors - is there? Martyrs are so boring.

That said, a bleeding vegan burger sounds just wrong, but à chacun son goût.

I had an entirely acceptable vegan burger at.. of all places.. The Yardhouse?

Alabama has more soul in its little finger that you pasty shits will ever have...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbjmGxh…

@34 Reminds me of the WTO's :
Post Consumer Waste Recycling Program

One has to be nuts or very poor to eat factory packed ground beef.