Battle for Tripoli Imminent: Unaffiliated residents flee and Gaddafi issues Orwellian statements as rebels encroach on Tripoli’s suburbs.
Verizon Strike Ends Tuesday: While negotiations are still ongoing to determine Verizon employee benefits, both sides believe that work may resume while contract negotiations persist.
Body Found in Lake Washington: Near where a man fell from his personal watercraft on Wednesday evening.
Kucinich Speaks at Hempfest: Somehow, while using a number of his trademark liberal talking points, he ends up comparing Hempfest to Gandhi’s march to the sea and MLK’s March on Washington.
We’re Going to Have More to Write About After September 3rd: Bush strategist Karl Rove predicts Sarah Palin will begin her quest to lead the free world on Labor Day weekend.
Lynnwood Fire Watch: Two more fires less than two miles apart—one suspected to be arson—not connected to the arson-related brushfires reported yesterday.
WSU Admits Largest Freshman Class Ever: WSU bucks the trend of receding class sizes and fills a class 23% larger than the previous record—mostly with in-state students, too.
TouchPad Sells Out at Fire Sale Price: I guess it’s pretty easy to sell an iPad competitor when you’re selling at a huge loss.
And now, a penguin taking a shortcut after the jump. [via Animals Being Dicks]
I guess we might as well get used to Kucinich saying stupid shit.
Run, Palin, run!
Interesting to see all these crazies run. I wonder if that’s to fragment the crazy vote and ensure a Romney/Huntsman nomination.
@4: In your dreams, raindrop. At this point, a generic Republican would beat Obama, but fortunately for the country, all the Republican nominees are batshit insane. Except for Huntsman; him I like.
@4, Well, yes, that *has* been the GOP strategy for the past three years, has it not? The issues which face America can be ignored whole-sale. The only true issue facing America, according to the GOP, is get Obama. Jobs? Economic collapse? Environmental disasters? Massive, wide-spread corruption of the democratic process? These are nothing compared to the terrifying prospect of having a black man as president.
The fact of the matter is that Obama is just slightly left of Reagan, and the GOP is a party of bigots. The only question remains, raindrop, Why do you hate America?
GO COUGS!
Huh? When did “personal watercraft” replace descriptive words like boat, jet ski, kayak, etc. in news stories about a drowning?
I enjoyed the Seattle Times reporter’s timely Hempfest story about how taking $200 and no medical records to the 4Evegrgreen tent will get you a year’s medical-marijuana authorization. They’re still open until 8 tonight – I’m going down there to see if I can get an authorization myself, using my debit card and vague complaints of “perfunctory orgasm”.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
Way to go Wazzu…
Also, the ‘animals being dicks’ link doesn’t seem to work.
@9, I don’t know why I had to read about this in Biloxi, Mississippi’s hometown rag instead of Fairview Fanny, but I do hope you’ll take the opportunity to cleanse body as well as mind while you’re getting that green card:
http://www.sunherald.com/2011/08/17/3357…
(Video here.)
And good luck with your, um, condition, by which I mean that the pot affects it not at all or makes it “worse.”
@10 – fixing it now. Thanks!
That video is amazing, rob! I had no idea the Brunners were festivalizing their insistent wholeseomeness. I swear by their almond soap, but the foam thing reminded me of a drunken weekend surrounded by gringas in Acapulco….
@13: Nice word choice. You’re like an incoherent version of Nathaniel Hawthorne.