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Erica..

Please take some advice.

Going through life bitter and with a chip on your shoulder will only lead to misery.
2
Can't this be done via email ECB? No one, I literally mean no one is as excited about ribbing Joel as you are.
3
When you're 60, you'll still be name-checking Hillary Clinton. The difference is, you won't have a column or a paper.
4
We don't accuse you of being "too tough" on him, we accuse you of being obsessed and wanting to jump his bone.
5
Here's one: the Port scandal. Do you really think that the Seattle Times would run a week long expose on the corruption at the Port? If the PI hadn't run its stories, Mic Densmore would be sitting in a pile of taxpayer cash somewhere on a beach in Mexico laughing his pale ass off. It's sad to see the only daily with balls in this town fade away to nothing.
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This is an excellent point. The news media, the P-I very much included, did not exactly cover itself with Woodward-and-Bernstein-style glory during the Bush Administration. Their absurdly non-critical coverage of the buildup to and prosecution of the Iraq War was shameful, for starters; and their non-coverage of the civil liberties issues surrounding the Patriot Act, and Bush's abandonment of the rule of law in his freestylin' "signing statements", and their gross failure to explain the torture issue -- oh, I could go on. But the media gave Bush a free pass on all of these things.

Maybe if your newspaper had actually covered the news during the last eight years you wouldn't be going tits up, Joel.
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I am a bad, bad man. Please don't read my column.
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@7, no, you're just a moron. I don't read your column already, which may be part of the reason the PI is going tits up. Hasta.
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@5, I thought Mic Dinsmore WAS sitting on a pile of cash on a beach in Mexico?
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Erica, Erica, Erica: Here's how it works. If you call men MEN you should call women WOMEN. If you refer to men as BOYS then it is fair to refer to the women as GIRLS. There is no gender bias there, you're merely being cute or silly or whatever by referring to adults as boys and girls.

Referring to MEN & GIRLS: offensive
referring to BOYS & GIRLS: not
referring to MEN & CHICKS: offensive
referring to DUDES & CHICKS: not
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Fnarf, I'm sure he is, just not the quarter million the board tried to give him as a retirement present.
12
uuuuuugh I came
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Why shouldn't Erica write about Joel? He's a big deal in Seattle, isnt' he? He deserves coverage, and yes, even ridicule from time to time when he writes nonsense like he did this morning. And she can defend herself God knows, but the point isn't that Joel shouldn't say "girls," but that he feels he needs to point out that there are females in politics these days. Holy Jimminy Cricket, I hear the moving picture show talks now, too! What will they think of next? I was just impressed that Joel made a lightbulb joke and not a joke about how many people it takes to change the kerosene in the kitchen lamp.
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@10, she is obviously commenting on Joel Connelly's remark that "girls too, nowadays" makes it sound like women in politics is some bizarre new trend.

"Moms -- and even some dads, these days! -- love their children." See?
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sadly, and with lots of thought, @1 for the win.
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Connelly seems to be forgetting that Washington had a female governor for eight years starting shortly after he started at the P-I. Remember Dixie Lee Ray, Joel? And of course Patty Murray's been in office for 17 years. When exactly did "nowadays" start, anyways? What do you call someone who mentally resides in a time period before he was born?
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@Fnarf, #16:

A dead UW student? Too soon?
18
wow, will, you clearly take very seriously your job as self-appointed ftw arbiter.

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