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I was walking past Belltown park last night, which some Seattlites may know has recently been converted into a dog park. And it struck me for the first time how odd that is. Belltown park was a “problem,” in that it was a big hangout for homeless and drug dealers. Mostly the [...]

New blog worth checking out, if you like your blue-state rants from a red-state point of view.
Probably the best thing to come out of C-ville since, well… the big guy.

The Washington Monthly has an fun little piece handicapping outsider candidates (Brokaw, Turner, Cosby) for the Dems to run in ‘08. It’s a hoot. Gerstner’s actually my favorite, though I do like Bob Kerrey.
But I’m happy with the number of business folk on the list. It seems to me that [...]

My usual coffee shop is a wonderful little place at the top of Queen Anne Hill in seattle, about a block from my apartment. It’s run by this Iranian family who are tremendously kind and friendly. Exactly what you want from your caffeine dealer.
This morning I was struck — maybe because I was [...]

Well, we’ve got to be open to new ideas, don’t we? Even when they go against one of our pet issues:
  The evidence presented in this paper indicates that declining competition in U.S. House elections is explained by two major factors: a shift in the partisan composition of House districts and a decline in [...]

Via Instapundit, I see that Schwarzenegger is making a case for fair districts.
Bruno is a BIG FAN of redrawing legislative districts. Great to see the Governator is on board. Just to show I’m nonpartisan on this, you should know that redrawing districts in California will probably be a short-term loser for the Democrats, [...]

Proving once again that it has a direct line to the little voice inside my head, Slate today publishes an article on sitcoms featuring fat men and their gorgeous wives. His main examples are According to Jim and King of Queens, two shows which I found utterly repellent the few times I watched them, [...]

Stopped into Trader Joe’s the other day and the shelves were near bare. They said the storms in the midwest were hampering deliveries (they say that most food at the grocery store travels 1500 miles to get to your house). Then, tonight, I went over to Safeway and marveled for a second at [...]

It begins…
Guy Hovis, a vocalist from Tupelo, Miss., who performed on the Lawrence Welk show, will sing, “Let the Eagles Soar,” a song written by Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Queen Elizabeth got Shakespeare, and this is what we get.
Please, make it stop!!!

In an earlier post, I floated the idea that the Democrats could make the case for Social Security privatization based on the idea that it would reward long-term investments over short term ones. Getting Wall Street to start thinking long-term, and not rewarding shareholders quarter-to-quarter, would skew it to more progressive values, since it [...]