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Seattle Photographer Peter de Lory, a client of mine in a former life, has been commissioned to take some really striking photos of Sound Transit’s Link Light Rail construction. Check it out. Technorati Tags: Seattle, Transit, Art

A reason why a US strike on Iran may be unlikely — we trained their airforce. As this article in Jane’s indicates, Iran operates a Western-style air defence system, with the F-14 playing a critical role in the network. Iran is the only other country in the world to operate the Tomcat. A revolutionary weapon [...]

Upon learning that Google is being forced to hand over search result logs in an effort to waste precious government funds going after sex perverts, The Stranger writer Brad Steinbacher voluntarily offers up his own list of searches for the past week: Bradley Steinbacher + The Stranger (vanity search) Bradley Steinbacher + fuckwad (vanity search) [...]

After yesterday’s real-world moral quandary, this is more like it: Breaking more than a year’s silence, Osama bin Laden warned Americans in an audiotape released on Thursday that Al Qaeda was planning more attacks on the United States, but he offered a “long truce” on undefined terms. . . . Vice President Dick Cheney, asked [...]

We all know the David Palmer-esque mantra, “The U.S. does not negotiate with terrorists.” So why does it appear like we’re negotiating with terrorists? In a development that could affect the fate of a kidnapped American journalist, an official in Iraq’s Justice Ministry said a commission had recommended that six of eight women currently in [...]

The Democrats are learning the powers and pitfalls of coalition-building. In the past, they were able to rely on the loose affiliation of minority-rights activists, labor, and environmentalists. But now they know they have to be much more intentional about it, the way Grover Norquist doles out concessions and compromises at his Wednesday morning meetings [...]

The Times, which itself (ab)used the power of eminent domain to its advantage, goes way out on a limb to note that “Developers Can’t Imagine a World Without Eminent Domain”: Bank of America agreed to join the developer Douglas Durst in 2003 in building a 54-story tower in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, giving a [...]

During John Roberts’ Supreme Court confirmation hearings, that was what we heard from the man. He has no judicial philosophy. He parses cases from the “bottom up” and not the “top down.” So how’d he do his first time up? Well, to put it bluntly, “no judicial philosophy my ass.” In a 6-3 decision, the [...]

It could be just me but this nugget from that Drudgetastic story about Laura Bush seems disturbing in that Boxers-Or-Briefs? kind of way: Mrs. Bush also revealed that her IPod listening includes songs by Tina Turner and Dolly Parton. She said her musical tastes are somewhat different from those of her husband. “He likes country [...]

Allow me a moment of post-Golden Globes kvetching: Walk the Line swept the “Musical or Comedy” awards, racking up Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Picture, Musical or Comedy. Walk the Line is a very good film. But it’s neither a musical nor a comedy. It’s in that category because the studios lobbied to put [...]