Waterworld: The National Weather Service tells us to expect a lot of rain. And we are in fact under flood watch. Seattleites glance out the window and think: well done, boys, well done.

A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou not be … maybe: Seattle police are rethinking the policy of “banishing” people from public and private property if they’ve been caught loitering or involved in suspected criminal activity.

Have a hole-y Christmas: the deep bore tunnel isn’t the only immense hole we have to worry about – our annual state budget shortfall was just bumped up by $90 million.

IMMORTALITY! TAKE IT! IT’S YOURS!: MOHAI doesn’t want you to pass into oblivion – the latest project of MOHAI is “Puget Sound stories.” And okay, I will finally make the trek over there.

Old man orgasms: Paul will now be in charge of tracking the Fed. My friend Matt Luby is probably rejoicing.

NO! I live yet!: former CIA analyst Ray McGovern declares the “fourth estate” dead. Fire your mortician, man! I’m kicking!

“But it’s a real PRETTY paragraph…”: Cancun climate talk ministers have agreed on “just one paragraph of text.” The sane start going outside and enthusiastically joining apocalyptic Christian sign-wavers.

9 replies on “Morning News: Rain, Climate Change, and the Fourth Estate”

  1. I think you’ll find the trip to MOHAI’s age-old location really worth it. There’s an unaffectedness to it all that I’ve loved since I was a boy.

  4. And Ron Paul will prove, again for the ten thousanth time, how impotent extremist ideologues are. Just imagine what the GOP could have accomplished if they’d given that chairmanship to a guy who knows how to cut a deal? You could have said all the same things about Jim McDermott if the Democrats had been naive enough to give him a powerful chairmanship.

    Not that your true believers ever cared about facts or history anyway. The less Ron Paul accomplishes, the more that proves he’s right and proves the conspiracy fears him. Solipsism means never having to admit what you can see with your own eyes, after all.

  6. Re Waterworld item: While I realize that a snark-free Stranger article is rare indeed, it would be nice if Unpaid Intern read the actual linked article before a 9:15am ‘glance out the window’. To wit:

    “The excitement should begin Saturday afternoon and continue through Sunday, as a strong warm front mixes with a subtropical moisture plume.”

    Please note the use of the word ‘afternoon’ there.

  9. Seattle received a shit ton of rain.
    In other news, the American public votes like it has no memory whatsoever, a literary critic has described James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake as “impenetrable”, and a panel of scientists have released a statement advising against spilling hydrochloric acid down your butt-crack.

Comments are closed.