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You forgot to mention that the lovely Jenna Bush will wed her long time boyfriend Henry Hagar in Crawford, Texas today. I’m sure the Stranger staff and us sloggers wish them a lifetime of happiness as they take vows on the holy covenant of their matrimony, witnessed by family and friends, and blessed by clergy in a charming outdoor wedding on the Texas prairie today, surrounded by glorious wildflowers.

Why do you insist on calling Myanmar by its old English name "Burma"?

KUOW said this morning that Washington driving is down in 2008 from 2006 even though jobs and population increased. And other polls (Gallup, AP-Ipsos) show that everyone is driving less across the country. Prices will rise more over the summer and the demand for driving alternatives will reach a fever pitch.

Therefore, common sense dictates that...

...Need I even say it? No roads on the ballot in November. Just a fat, fat, fat transit package.

@2: If it makes you feel any better, "Myanmar" and "Burma" have the exact same pronunciation in Burmese.

@4: If I were reading it aloud, that would make sense----- but I ain't.

It's kind of a Peking/Beijing thing. Which is correct? Well, to tell the truth, neither. But since my keyboard doesn't support Chinese or Burmese, we just have to make do.

@2 The name for Burma/Myanmar is a lot more complicated than you suggest. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Burma for an overview.

The name of the country in the local language never changed. The military dictatorship changed the English name of the country only. The democratic parliament (never seated in 1990) and the current democratic opposition both prefer "Burma."

Thanks, Cascadian. That's what I was trying to say, but I've been kinda rushing around this morning and didn't take the time to say it as well as you did.

I am not suggesting anything.

I want to know why Intern is using Myanmar instead of Burma.

And yes I know how to use Wikipedia, thank you anyway.

The city of seattle (mayor, attorneys, judges police) illegally took hundreds of thousands of dollars from citizens in improper parking fines now they got caught and got sued and are returning some of it. Plus now they have to pay lawyers fees for losing the case. Lots of taxpayer $$$ for that.

Why isn't any public official held accountable for this massive governmental lawbreaking? No one is getting fired and no one is even identified as being responsible.

Why not?

Families who produce criminals/people as stupid as Earnest Collins Jr should be made to drop their pants, bend over, and grasp their ankles firmly so a representative from the victim's family can give them a swift kick to the ass. After being collectively spayed/neutered.

The Morning News is always great.

yucca @11, only if the product is as evil as he/she is stupid. in which case, (which is this case) yes i agree wholeheartedly.

Because Myanmar was named as such by the junta. The resistance prefers to go by it's original name of Burma. Perhaps Unpaid Intern is a freedom fighter for Burma?

And they renamed Rangoon into Yangon. Crab Yangon just doesn't sound right...

I think a bicyclist got hit by a car Friday at the very same place Bryce Lewis died near the university bridge.

@3 is right.

Transit.