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Friday, May 21, 2010

News The Morning News: Scientists Create Synthetic Life, Rand Paul Still a Jackass

Posted by on Fri, May 21, 2010 at 7:53 AM

Stocks: Down. The Dow fell below 10,000 again.

What Now for Financial Reform? The reform bill passed the Senate, but can they save it from lobbyists?

It's Alive! ALIVE! Scientists create first synthetic bacteria.

This Won't End Well: South Korea says North Korea will "pay" for sinking warship.

Germany to the Rescue? German lawmakers approve a contribution to a nearly $1 trillion European bailout package.

He's Like a Male Sarah Palin, Only Dumber: Rand Paul calls Obama's criticism of BP "un-American."

You're Doing the Military-Industrial Complex Wrong: Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he wants the president to veto the defense spending bill if funding for certain projects is included.

Blood on Your iPod: It's the eighth suicide this year at Foxconn, the world's biggest electronics manufacturer.

Observe and Report: SPD is opening another investigation to determine whether members of their department tried to influence Q13 into not running the "Mexican piss" video.

This Is Why I Hate Sports Writing: Wait a minute, you guys...could the greatest Husky of all time be...A GIRL? (Cue Ka-BOING! noise.) No way! She's so cute! And not a burly man at all!

This Is Why I Hate the Seattle Times Sometimes: It's Bike to Work Day...be careful or you will DIE in these MULTIPLE DANGER ZONES ALL AROUND SEATTLE. NEVER MIND THE BIKE! IT'S A DEATH TRAP!

And now, your Daily Muppet:

 

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Cato the Younger Younger 1
I LOVE the Wilkins Coffee ads from the 50's and early 60's. And you know why? If you don't love it proto-Kermit the frog kick your ass!!
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on May 21, 2010 at 7:56 AM
JF 2
You're going to sit there and tell me it wouldn't be amazing for the greatest athlete in UW history to be a woman? Compare the amount of male athelets vs the amount of female athletes that have gone through that university and you'll find a huge difference in sample size. Statistically, both on and off the field she's an anomaly.
Posted by JF on May 21, 2010 at 8:14 AM
Baconcat 3
Why can't we outsmart Lindsay Lohan?
Posted by Baconcat on May 21, 2010 at 8:17 AM
4
Can someone explain how the Foxconn suicide meme is interesting? It's sad, sure, but...

Foxconn employs 420,000 people in Shenzhen alone: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-…

China's suicide rate is 13.9 per year per 100,000 people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cou…

You'd expect Foxconn to have 55 suicides a year in Shenzhen, assuming employees are representative of the Chinese population. Which they're not, but surely a rate of 8 in 5 months (19/year) isn't wildly out of line with what statistics would predict, right? It is sad, and I'm sure work conditions contribute, but why the sudden interest in this one company when it has to be more or less representative?

Or am I missing something?
Posted by also on May 21, 2010 at 8:21 AM
gloomy gus 5
The richest local story I saw this morning is from the P-I's Levi Pulkkinen. Describing newly released charging documents, the story combines lack of late-night Eastside bus service; a 14-year-old boy getting a molester arrested by walking him down I-405; and that, since the judge couldn't find a way to hold him, the accused has been free since this happened in July of last year.

Darn good story. The kid seems cooler under pressure than I'll ever be.

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/420394_th…
Posted by gloomy gus on May 21, 2010 at 8:25 AM
this guy I know in Spokane 6
@5 - wow. That's one impressive kid.

Not that Mr. Child Porn isn't creepy or anything, but I keep noticing how, with suspected child pornographers and terrorists, they keep mentioning that when investigators search the suspect's stuff, they always find "a laptop computer." ooooooo, scary...
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on May 21, 2010 at 8:39 AM
Vince 7
Rand Paul, uber tea bagger, puts foot firmly in mouth, daily. Just like tea baggers, dumb as a bag of rocks.
Posted by Vince on May 21, 2010 at 8:58 AM
sepiolida 8
the comments on the female athlete story are rather incendiary.
Posted by sepiolida on May 21, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Max Solomon 9
i felt the same way when i saw the SeaTimes headline. i never miss subscribing.
Posted by Max Solomon on May 21, 2010 at 9:30 AM
Knat 10
"And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be somebody's fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen," Paul said.

Fine, call it an accident. (That doesn't seem to be the case, but whatever.) But that doesn't mean that the guys who own the thing shouldn't be the ones paying the bill to clean it.
Posted by Knat on May 21, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Geni 11
I want to know why that woman is limited to playing softball. She's throwing that fucking grapefruit 71 mph. That woman should be in the bigs, just like her little brother is. Why do we make women play softball again? someone remind me.
Posted by Geni on May 21, 2010 at 10:56 AM
vooodooo84 12
Its British Petroleum, not gorram American Petroleum. Maybe its anti-atlanticist but not anti american
Posted by vooodooo84 on May 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM
13
Why isn't Slog covering the BP oil spill, much?
(How about a call to boycott BP, at the very least?)

Good information on the spill can be found at www.nola.com

Posted by Please provide Oil Spill Coverage on May 21, 2010 at 12:22 PM
McGee 14
I am not going to discount this woman's athletic ability as it certainly eclipses mine but in the bigs? Sure. I would bet guys like Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols would be drooling all over themselves to face her however many times a year.
Posted by McGee on May 21, 2010 at 12:59 PM

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