Aches and pains? Chills? Upset stomach? Diarrhea? You may have a case of guns.
Aches and pains? Chills? Upset stomach? Diarrhea? You may have a case of guns. Jelena Danilovic/Getty Images

Slog PM today is brought to you by the Roasted Rye IPA from Reuben's Brews: Lester thinks it's nice and toasted. There's almost a slight smoky flavor to it, like, say, if someone slightly overdoes it on the candied yams and they caught on fire a little bit. Everyone loves a slightly charred candied yam, right? There's also bitterness with not many hop notes—think of an IPA, but only the bitterness of the IPA. A nice beer.

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On the other hand, I think mine tastes kind of like blood.

City Council may have broken the law with their head tax ruling: But the vote to repeal the head tax will still stand, ruled a Superior Court Judge. However, whether or not the City Council violated the Open Public Meetings Act will be decided at trial. That’s right! We’re takin’ ‘em to court! The whole issue is that the council held a special meeting to discuss the repeal of the head tax, the tax that would tax wealthy companies per employee (per head, one might say). That meeting occurred behind-the-scenes and could violate the OPMA. Still, the worst that could happen is some fines. No head tax do-over part three.

We’re getting radical to save these whales: Governor Jay Inslee’s task force to save the whales has come back with some real results! They’ve got a list of recommendations that will save the southern resident killer whales. One of those is banning whale watching for three to five years. Whew! Sorry, tourism industry. But I guess if the 74 orcas we have left die off there won’t be a whale watching industry, anyway. Another recommendation is breaching the Snake River Dam so salmon runs can be restored. That one has been put on the back burner. What can I say? Bitches love hydropower. There are 36 recommendations.

Light prison sentence for man who raped high-school student while she was dying: This crime is a new low. A 20-year-old man watched as the 18-year-old girl he was with snorted a fatal mixture of fentanyl and alprazolam (Xanax) and texted semi-nude pictures of her to friends while she passed out. He bragged to a friend that she “died having sex with me.” He tried to dispose of her body. He pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter, third-degree rape, and unlawful disposal of remains in a plea deal, according to the Seattle Times. He was only sentenced to two years and 10 months in prison. The judge said she couldn’t raise the sentence since he had no prior criminal record.

Baby, it’s cold outside!


King County gun shops will have to post health risks to using a firearm outside stores: The Board of Health ruled that signs outlining the risks associated with firearms (like, I dunno, death?) will be put up outside of every King County gun store. These warning signs are the first of their kind on the West Coast.

Seattle gas is higher than the rest of the country: The national average for gas prices is $1 less than it is in Seattle. Washington has the third highest gas prices in the country. Is this why you didn’t want a carbon fee, Washington? Or maybe it wouldn’t have mattered if 14 cents were tacked onto our already-high gas prices. Who knows? I don’t. I’m still sad about it.

Amanda Knox is engaged: The proposal was ET themed. Amanda has come so far from being acquitted of murder twice. Here’s a video if you care.

Crosscut reported a man was dead, then it turned out he was alive: We all make mistakes. But, how many times have you accidentally killed a man in your writing? Not saying they killed someone, but they did say he was dead—you know, killing him. In a sense. The man in question was a Russian immigrant detained at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma who had been participating in a hunger strike for months. This article came out, stating that the man had died from the hunger strike. Then, it was corrected to include Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s comments: that the man was in the hospital but very much alive. Talk about the Lazarus effect.

Unfortunately, no Lazarus here: But, a culprit, perhaps.


Morocco beats the US to high-speed rail: It’s been in the works since 2011 and is the first of its kind in Africa. The rail will link Tangier to Casablanca. On a regular train, that route would take 5 hours. With this sexy high-speed train, it will take 2 hours and 10 minutes. Please, please give us high-speed transit!!!

A federal judge ruled that the White House has to restore Jim Acosta’s press pass: CNN’s Jim Acosta had his press credentials revoked after a press conference that Donald Trump didn’t particularly like. The two had an exchange. Then doctored footage of the exchange—spread By THE WHITE HOUSE—circulated. Acosta was barred. CNN took the White House to court. Now, the White House, after a judge ordered it, will “temporarily restore” Acosta’s access.

Welcome to the dystopia: Texas’s Board of Education decided recently that Texas might need to do some updating to its curriculum. So, starting in the 2019-2020 school year, Texas students will learn that slavery “played a central role in the Civil War.” To be fair to Texas, they didn’t omit slavery as a cause for the Civil War, they just buried it a bit.