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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

News The Morning News

Posted by David Schmader on Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:24 AM

In Case You Missed It: People's Waterfront Coalition director Cary Moon eloquently slammed the state's tunnel study and Mayor McGinn addressed expensive snow and canine-killing electricity.

RIP Richard Holbrooke: Half a century of American diplomacy comes to a close. (Here's Nicholas Kristof's remembrance of Holbrooke in the NYT.)

Obama's Would-Be Health Care Reform Package: With its central provision ruled unconstitutional, a long battle looms.

Brown Christmas: 1.6 million gallons of sewage flow in Lake Washington and Medina homes.

The Middle Class: AKA "the new hungry."

Whacked: "Four alleged gang members have been charged with conspiring from behind prison walls in the fatal shooting of the gang's leader earlier this year in Tacoma," reports the Seattle Times.

Um, Okay: Embattled Michael Steele announces another run for Republican National Committee Chairman.

Your Normal Boner Is Just Fine: FDA warns against "herbal" erectile enhancement pills.

Ask an Expert: Rosie O'Donnell says Oprah Winfrey is not gay.

No Electronic Cigarettes in King County?: "[P]ublic health officials say [they look] so similar to the real thing that they make tobacco enforcement difficult and often prompt smokers to think it's OK to light up in public," reports Seattlepi.com.

All You Need to Know About the 2010 Golden Globes: Burlesque is up for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy).

Finally, happy birthday to Lee Remick, the American actress born on this day in 1935 and celebrated in song by the Go-Betweens in 1978.

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Burlesque?! This year must have been harder up for comedy than I thought.

No, really, Burlesque?! Now, it may win the Razzie just so the Golden Raspberry Society can be bitchy.

Posted by TheMisanthrope on December 14, 2010 at 7:03 AM

Nothing about SPL? I heard they just gave all their upper management cushy raises, just weeks after huge layoffs and demotions to library staff...

Posted by sloggerette on December 14, 2010 at 7:24 AM

"Sometimes, she stuffs the generic cereal into brand-name boxes so her son won't notice."

hmmm... I'm not sure if I can feel so sorry for these "new hungry"

Posted by nomnomnom on December 14, 2010 at 7:29 AM

"Tobacco enforcement?" You guys enforce tobacco laws? Shit, that would be unheard-of here.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on December 14, 2010 at 7:48 AM

So wait, tobacco enforcement agents can't tell the difference between a paper tube that ignites, burns down, smells and causes users to exhale copious amounts of smoke, and a piece of plastic with an LED on the end?

They must be really, really bad at their jobs, because I think most lower primates could be easily trained to make this distinction in about five minutes.

Posted by COMTE

on December 14, 2010 at 9:12 AM

Yay, Lee Remick! Yay, Go-Betweens! First single! I love how raw they sound. The wonderful Lindy Morrison hadn't joined yet; they're much more choppy and New Wave sounding here than they were later. Oh, I'd kill for a copy of this on Able. I have the Postcard one, "I Need Two Heads".

Posted by Fnarf

on December 14, 2010 at 9:13 AM

Better Steele than somebody competent...

Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on December 14, 2010 at 9:55 AM

The E-ciagarette issue is the very definition of nanny statism. Other people seeing a person with an e-cigarrette get confused and light up, causing second-hand smoke. What about someone who doesn't like the real cigarettte saying something like, "Hey, you can't smoke here"?

Posted by thatsnotright on December 14, 2010 at 12:04 PM

I don't understand why on earth they don't make the e-cigarettes bright red or something, so they can easily be told from tobacco tubes.

Posted by Geni on December 14, 2010 at 12:19 PM

Isn't this argument for banning eCigarettes equivalent to banning diabetes patients from injecting insulin because we can't tell if it's heroin? Or banning 16oz cans of energy drinks because they look like Rainier or Pabst tallboys?

Posted by investigatory journalist on December 14, 2010 at 1:21 PM