Category: Wonk

Apparently, Mayor Nickels plans to propose a parking tax for downtown Seattle to fund transportation.  Fantastic!  That means that the people who commute to downtown from Issaquah or wherever pay some for Seattle transportation (as they should) whereas those of us who live and work in Seattle aren't getting disproportionately taxed.

I'm a big supporter of moving back to a 28 year maximum term on copyrights. I've been thinking about how to describe that, and I think I've come up with one way of doing it. Rupert Holmes would still be able to earn a living off of his 1979 hit "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)",… Continue reading 28 years of “You Light Up My Life” →

It seems that whenever Bush or the Republicans trot out the phrase "playing politics", they really mean "thinking critically".  Just visit the following links, and replace the phrase "playing politics" with "thinking critically" to see what I mean."But here's the question.  The question is, how do you respond to [the intelligence failures]?  Do you respond… Continue reading “Playing politics” is Bush-speak for “thinking critically” →

It looks like Barack Obama has decided to start posting on Daily Kos Of course, his first dispatch was "first p0st! LOL!", but he'll get the hang of it.

Metafilter pointed out a really good article: CBS News Makeover, by Four Kibitzers. Lizz Winstead, co-creator of "The Daily Show", pointed out a bunch of really cool things that CBS could do, but that they won't do, such as media commentary and podcasting. However, I'm not sure that we need to wait for CBS to… Continue reading The New York Times: CBS News Makeover, by Four Kibitzers →

Much more imaginative than your typical doomsday prophecy

Puget Sound Business Journal is reporting that there's a hearing set for splitting Washington into two states. Even though it has a snowball's chance in hell, I've always thought this would be a great way of highlighting just how much Western WA subsidizes Eastern WA.