My light rail, sans sandbag, is going to pass in 2008. Ha and ha! Those of you who said it wouldn't happen are not allowed to ride on my train. You could have been nice about this but you decided to force my hand. If you set foot on my train, I shall gloat mercilessly. You will be witheringly gloated and then I shall gloat some more.

You have been warned. Perhaps you'd be happier on a train in Portland. Ha!

We could really use something like that now. Stranger TV on YouTube?

Also, Clinton, Obama, Biden & Dodd skipped the vote. Not that it would have mattered since 6 dems showed up and voted FOR Mukasey.

When oh when will the dems grow some balls?

Ouch.

Good news a bout the veto override. It's a step in the right direction anyway.

Next time, I would also look into past examples of countries successfully invading other countries and being welcomed as liberators. You know, to see how they pulled it off? Oh, there aren't any examples? Well, shit.

As for pharmacists being allowed to not dispense the morning-after pill, OK. If a pharmacist wants to make that "moral" choice - fine. But I want to know clearly and fully which pharmacists are making that decision so I can make my moral choice not to patronize that drug store. I want a banner in the front window. Don't make women have to ask and be told, "No, we don't dispense that (slut!)."

Let's see how many high-and-mighty, right-to-life pharmacists are willing to forego stocking the morning-after pill when their political alliances are posted on their storefronts.

The sword cuts both ways.

It's only not funny if you have no understanding of Northwest/Western Washington culture and history over the past 2-3 decades.

I will say that I grew up watching Almost Live!, and it was influential to me in many ways, but looking back on it now, a lot of the sketches were pretty lame, "so lame", and a good part of its cachet comes from the fact that it peaked at the same time the Seattle media hype machine reached its apex. The CC run and the Bill Nye show owe their debts to that magical mid-90s convergence of "grunge", Sleepless in Seattle, and Almost Live!.

Re: Almost Live!

You gotta admit that Joel McHale is a total hottie. Check out those arms--rowrr!!

But it's also disappointing that the Democrats didn't filibuster the Mukasey confirmation. Gleen Greenwald over at Salon has a good piece on what happened to the filibuster. His take is that the Democrats are weak-willed wimps who are unwilling to stand up to Bush.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/09/filibuster/index.html

It's not just Seattle that's gotten homogenized and sanitized. That's happening all over the world; local color and culture replaced by the same chain stores and chain restaurants and syndicated programming. Even your "local" radio station often isn't - the hosts are frequently recording several shows for several cities from a single location.