SPD Allegedly Causes Protester’s Miscarriage: Read about it here.
How Happy Is Seattle, Really? Apparently, pretty happy, other than the south end and Seattleites aged 19-24.
Stormy Weather: The US economy missed third quarter growth estimates, coming in at 2.0% annualized growth.
What a Regressive Tax Buys You: Eli lays out what the Governor’s proposed half-cent tax increase preserves from an all-cuts budget here.
Lowest US Teen Pregnancy Rates Ever: Still higher than much of the of the developed world.
Facebook Makes it 4.74 Degrees of Separation: I mean, damn.
Fighting Birds Killed in Advance of Raid: Seventeen people were arrested on Sunday for animal cruelty related to the operation.
Obama Fights for Payroll Tax Reduction Extension: Thank god he’s not caving on this one in extensive deficit talks—yet?
UC Davis Re-Occupies: More trolls should probably oppose liberal police use of pepper spray on the grounds that it makes crowds larger over time.
Turkish PM Calls for Bashar al-Assad’s Resignation: “‘It is not heroism to fight against your own people. If you want to see someone, who has fought against his own people, look at Nazi Germany, Hitler, Mussolini, Ceaucescu of Romania,’ Mr. Erdogan said.”
It’s a Bear! It’s… Whoops: A hunter shot a man after mistaking him for a bear. And now his widow is suing.
I don’t really like Thanksgiving. So here’s my favorite arrangement of my favorite Christmas song.
I don’t like Thanksgiving, either. I associate it with the deaths of family, friends, and pets, as many of them died within weeks of the holiday over the years.
“More trolls should probably oppose liberal police use of pepper spray…”
what do you mean “trolls”?
Trolls are Scandinavian creatures that live in the wilderness and under bridges. But I think you knew that.
Since most of these “kids” are the viral spawn of the 1%, wouldn’t it be simpler for them to set up tents in their parent’s living room?
And, paradoxically, since they are…in essence…the problem they are protesting…then they are protesting themselves…hence they should welcome the sprays.
In a cockfight, a rooster has a 50% chance of living. After a police raid? 0%. Which is better from the rooster’s point of view?
Just cause its a fighting cock doesn’t mean you can’t eat it, does it?
Hey! Take 6! They Rule(d)!
@6 actually, you can’t really. Fighting cocks are all whipcord muscle, very little fat. They are tough, and stringy.
You COULD make a traditional coq au vin, as the recipe calls for rooster which is braised over some days….but generally fighting rooster is not that great as a foodstuff.
Couldn’t we just expire the Gregoire Tax Giveaways to the Rich and Corporations at the same time that we expire the Bush Tax Giveaways to the Rich and Corporations?
That would be simpler.
Also, it’s the talons, as @8 says. Wiry and fast.
Seattleites who are 19-24 don’t have jobs. Of course they’re unhappy.
Apparently, in Slogdom, a troll is anyone who expresses a viewpoint even just one centimeter right of center.
@9,
Well, I fucked up that blockquote.
@8 said nothing about talons.
@7 That album came out last year!
@10 Truth.
I bet the Troll Hunter would use pepper spray on Trolls.