• On November 21, a social media fanatic named Nick Starr entered Capitol Hill's Lost Lake Cafe wearing Google Glass, the eyewear that acts as both computer and recording device, only to be asked by a manager to remove the nonprescription glasses or leave the restaurant. At that point, Starr writes on Facebook, he "asked to see where it was policy for Glass to be disallowed at Lost Lake. [The manager] said she couldn't provide any." As Starr was leaving the restaurant, he noted that the Lost Lake menu encourages customers to "post photos on our website via Instagram by using #LostLake." Starr asks rhetorically: "So how is an establishment which is REQUESTING photos be taken, not allow me to bring a device which takes photos and can post to Instagram?" At this point, you're probably asking yourself, who's the bigger asshole? Starr, apparently. "I would love an explanation, apology, clarification, and if the staff member was in the wrong and lost the owner money last night and also future income as well, that this income be deducted from her pay or her termination," Starr writes on Facebook, which is exactly the kind of asshole response you'd expect from someone wearing Google Glass.
• Sally Clark became the eighth Seattle City Council member to endorse a $15(ish) minimum wage, if in a somewhat Clarksian fashion. "Sure," she said in response to the question. "I think it could be. Is it exactly the right number? Fifteen is fine, I guess." Coming from Clark, that's downright enthusiastic! (And for those of you keeping score at home, that leaves Tim Burgess as the only council member not on record as endorsing the higher minimum wage.)
• The city council has requested that the Department of Planning and Development "provide recommendations describing options for regulations and incentives to reduce or eliminate leaf blower noise and emissions in Seattle." In a legally binding Slog poll, 53 percent of our readers have decreed that they should be banned. Next!
• Sources say Council Member Mike O'Brien has been shot down as chair of the transportation committee. Further committee chair gossip says Kshama Sawant is expected to be handed the Seattle City Light committee, which seems perfect, since the publicly owned utility is pretty much a socialist dreamscape.
• Sure, we're big Sawant fans around here, but it's perfectly understandable that other media outlets are just getting to know her. One example: a recent interview by KING 5 News' Linda Brill, who asked Sawant, who was born in India, penetrating critical questions like "What caste were you?" and "What do you have against corporations?" 
