Good riddance to this Eastside paper, the Seattle Times.

According to the JOA, Hearst has the right of first refusal on any sale of the Times. Frank Blethen once boasted that giving Hearst the right of first refusal was like "giving them the sleeves off of our vest."

Now that Frank's utter incompetence, arrogance, and cluelessness have turned everything he has touched into shit, I wonder if he's boasting about that now.

"Now that Frank's utter incompetence, arrogance, and cluelessness have turned everything he has touched into shit, I wonder if he's boasting about that now."

That's just not fair! All of the generations of Blethen's have been incompetent, arrogant and clueless.

So he's going to sell the Times? God, I hope so. That would explain his whole hatred of the estate tax. His kids are probably even more sociopathic than he is.

Incompetence - is that why they backed Bush, cause he was incompetent like them?

Catalina:

The previous generation of Blethens were as clueless as Frank has been, but nowhere near as incompetent or arrogant.

But someone needs to dump a tanker truck of clorine into that gene pool, agreed.

Great Granpaw Blethen (as he was undoubtedly called)had a horrible temper. He was notorious for ripping telephones out of walls.

I was talking about the previous generatioN of Blethens, who I knew personally, and didn't read about in some book. They were neither incompetent nor arrogant. Clueless? Quite so.

"Great Granpaw," FYI, was called "the colonel." He was indeed, by all acounts, a nut case.

"The Colonel"! I love it! Does his tombstone have an obelisk? Please tell me there's an obelisk!!

I can just see the Colonel glowering out one of those big arched windows of the old Times Building across from the Mayflower Hotel. (Don't tell me he wasn't alive for that. I cherish the vision.)