Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers on Slog and at The Stranger.

Re: possible new logging rules, the KUOW story missed a point that Brendan brought out in his Slog post and print story: Any logging permit application not reviewed by the DNR within 30 days is automatically approved.

http://slog.thestranger.com/blogs/slog/m…

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/washi…

All other regulatory fiddling is meaningless unless that fact is addressed. It's interesting, and perhaps telling, that both Goldmark and Goldman could have highlighted the issue and did not.

Horses Ass Bible Study also celebrates Mother's Day.

http://horsesass.org/ha-bible-study-jere…

You wanna see another man, a heroic man kissing another man who liberated Iraq?

http://foodforthethinkers.files.wordpres…

Chomsky wants his cake and eat it, too.

@4 Who doesn't? He's an idealist, much like many who see the grand scam for what it is.

Another milestone moment on live television: Conchita Wurst, bearded chanteuse from Austria, won Eurovision yesterday.

Michael Sam kissing his boyfriend actually is really disgusting. Every time we watch it we are disgusted. Just looking at those lips pucker up and make contact turns everyone's stomach. The worst part is when we pause the video right as their lips make contact. It's so horrible that we feel sickened and can't stare at the freeze frame for much more than a minute at a time.

Goldmark's promises to do more intensive screening for high hazard areas mean nothing unless they are accompanied by funding for the agency that is supposed to accomplish this.

One reason why there are long lines in eastern Ukraine is because there are far fewer polling locations than in normal elections. In Mariupol it is reported that there are 4 polling stations open, normally there are 239!

The "referendum" is a complete sham.

The ballot boxes are see-thru, there are no voter rolls being used, there are armed separatists at many of the voting locations and there are reports of people voting multiple times and of foreign journalists voting.

Please learn about the elections before Putin invades the country in a few months.

http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-li…

Chomsky became an all-star pundit with his rants against big business and the government. I rarely see in the news discussion of his linguistic work.

Chomsky and the anarchists seem to be missing the point that Teh People have better healthcare IN SPITE of anarchists efforts.

chomsky is obviously NOT an anarchist.

@13 Even though you are an unregistered troll, the fact that you would think Chomsky was "in bed" with the Khmer Rouge demonstrates your supreme idiocy...or you're actually Slavoj Zizek.

Derm, um, that Chmosky stuff kind of lost me. So complicated. I got "break windows". But other than that, a little help...?

Michael Sam was a 5th-7th round pick before he came out, he was a 5th-7th round pick after he came out.

Believe it or not, it is real progress.

#10

That's because he was a failure as a scientist and engineer.

Although known for propounding that language has structure, common throughout all, he never found what it was (if it even exists).

He was trying to not only prove that this common substrate existed, but to use it as a basis for natural language understanding in computers.

He was part of the zealous AI movement in computers (Minsky, McCarthy, Papert, et. al.) who thought they would have machine intelligence solved in the 1950s and 60s using techniques like first order logic.

Oh my god with Michael Sam and his adorbs twink boyfriend. Give a girl a break.

@16, he did pretty well after all is said and done, but that article made it sound like he was dropped down a bit in the draft because of his gayosity.

“I just know with this going on this is going to drop him down,” an NFL scout anonymously told Sports Illustrated. “There’s no question about it. It’s human nature. Do you want to be the team to quote-unquote ‘break that barrier?’”

Since the Rams have lots of Defensive backs, sounds like Sam will likely be used on special teams.

@21: The same way the "best player in college football" gets drafted #22. Skills don't necessarily translate to the next level.

Chomsky was an academic all his career. Academics are not anarchists, but if they're hypocritical, they want to associate with them.