The Stranger’s edit staff isn’t posting much on SLOG today—we’re wrung out, still hurting from all that cake and booze and the monorail defeat. But the folks in Stranger Forums are posting tons of good stuff today.

Like this post about the monorail from the Politics Forum:

Ok Seattle. So, you’ve killed the monorail. Tens of thousands of people are continuing to pour into the city. Right now, the only choice is to crush all these people on the already full roads. There is NO room for new roadways, busways, or a drop of new pavement on our little isthmus. What’s your plan? What’s the bright idea?

Everyone keeps claiming this is some principled vote against a project out of control, not about petty greed and shortsightedness.

I say we KEEP collecting the MVET (which works out to about $1.50 a week for the median driver in Seattle. Cry me a river. The average driver wastes more than a $1.50 in gas per day waiting in traffic.) We should take the MVET and build some mass transit. Lightrail, “skytrains” ala-vancouver, anything but roadways, tunneled or otherwise.

Hell, a lightrail running down Sandpoint, 45th, Market to shilshole would be worthwhile.

What about a citywide system of streetcars? One running the length of madison, one the length of Yessler, one on 4th ave s connecting to southpark, one the length of 65th in the north, one running up 15th NE.

In typical Seattle fashion, facing a massive problem and presented with a viable if not perfect plan, we’ve chosen to do NOTHING. Welcome to LA. welcome to Houston, welcome to Detroit.

What is your bright idea?

And this post about the smoking ban from the Slog Forum…

I want to see you non-smokers prove pundits wrong, starting on the day the ban takes effect, by SUPPORTING YOUR LOCAL DIVE BARS. You said they’d survive, right? Put your money where you mouth is, and show them they’ll be okay. C’mon: they have pool tables, darts, RELATIVELY CHEAP DRINKS, friendly bar staff, game machines and some have live music. It’ll be FUN. I don’t want to lose Al’s in Wallingford because of 901. For all the bluster over this issue, I’m totally cool with sharing a drink with fellow non-smokers in December and letting bygones be bygones over this debate.

And there’s this post from the I, Anonymous Forum…

item! republicans were soundly and i mean soundly defeated in two states to wit: virginia finally swings the right goddamn way.

item! all and i mean all of schwarzenegger’s anti-democrate, anti-labour union reforms were defeated by voters who finally woke up to find they’d hired backwards moronbeef to govern them.

item! the entire pennsylvania school board responsible for implementing the teaching of intelligent design beside darwinian evolution have been sacked. bloody rights.

item! tony blair’s draconian security measures proposed in response to the july bombings were defeated because the majority felt they severely compromised civil liberties. it’s being called the first serious blow to his leadership and i say hoorah and get the hardcore christian bush-licking twat the fuck out.

so, fellow humans, take heart. with this universal fuck you to bush, it would seem there are signs of intelligent life on the planet after all. it might even be support full blown civilization in time…

So there’s tons of great stuff to read on our website today. We’re just not, like, writing any of it.