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This is completely absurd. I’ve thought for a while now that America today resembles nothing so much as Rome in the 3rd or 4th centry, when they all turned into hedonists just before they were sacked by the Visigoths. Now read this and judge for yourself:
The report says that eight officials in the royalty [...]

The Veterans Administration is an amazing health care system. They do a lot with a little. One reason: an elegant IT system using inexpensive open-source software. It’s too bad, then, that the Department of Defens is determined to shove an expensive, unworkable IT system from Northrop Grumman down their throats.
God [...]

That’s a long time to be living in a motel:
What worsens matters are the semantic games played by the motel’s owners, who’ve declined interviews and even ran away from a reporter.
Reading between the lines, they have suggested that their tenants are not entitled to renters’ rights — such as protection from quick eviction — because [...]

The Spitzer legacy just gets better and better:
Employees of a California law firm whose donations were spurned on ethical grounds and then re-solicited by the campaign of Eliot Spitzer are fuming over what they say is the former governor’s hypocrisy and his campaign’s vague answers about whether and when they might get their money back, [...]

I didn’t see this one coming. Maybe the New Yorkers who hang out here feel differently?
Update: Looks like it wasn’t just the New Yorkers who were expecting something like this. Check out Matski’s post below for a more informed take on this story.

Senator Patty Murray, chair of the Transportation Appropriations subommittee, and bringer of bacon:
[Murray's $106 billion transportation and housing appropriations bill] includes $177 million for Washington state, the second-highest amount in projects added by lawmakers. Only New York would get more in so-called earmarks.
In all, the bill includes more than 500 earmarks, totaling about [...]

Lots of fun stuff in this piece on a new condom ad that’s “controversial” because it dares to say that condoms might prevent pregnancy. The ad has been banned in most markets except… Seattle!
I loved this defense from Comcast:
Comcast, the cable provider for both Pittsburgh and Seattle, would not allow Trojan to purchase [...]

What has John Edwards been up to since the 2004 election? Honing his sense of irony, of course:
John Edwards ended 2004 with a problem: how to keep alive his public profile without the benefit of a presidential campaign that could finance his travels and pay for his political staff.
Mr. Edwards, who reported this year that [...]

There may be some valid reasons to allow for earmarks in massive thousand-plus-page bills — like term limits, I think there are probably unforeseen negative consequences from changing the system — but when you hear about elected representatives like Don Young of Alaska, it makes you sort of forget any potential downside of getting rid [...]

One of the world’s top spammers, who happens to live in Seattle, is under arrest:
SEATTLE (AP) — A 27-year-old man described as one of the world’s most prolific spammers was arrested Wednesday, and federal authorities said computer users across the Web could notice a decrease in the amount of junk e-mail.
Robert Alan Soloway is accused [...]