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Monday, September 24, 2012

News Morning News: Cancer, Avalanches, and Geniuses

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 6:45 AM

Modern Family and Homeland Win Big: At the 2012 Emmys. Meanwhile, color experts note that blue is a color people wear.

Genius Awards: Sequins rained from the sky as angels wept. Congrats to all the winners!

Week Old Giant Baby Panda: Dead from unknown causes.

Only 43 More Days of This Bullshit: Mitt Romney says that poor people don't need health insurance, they've got emergency rooms! And if they can't pay their ER bills, someone will eventually take them out back and shoot them in the head, thereby ending everyone's misery.

A Satellite Dish, DVD Player, and a Phone: Working Chinese families display their worldly goods in a series of pretty great photographs.

"Fundamentally Reshaping the Scientific Understanding of Breast Cancer": Researchers have identified four genetically distinct types of breast cancer, along with the genetic changes influencing many cancers.

Final SoDo Basketball Arena Vote: Happening in Council Chambers today. But what the hell will happen to the Seattle Storm?

Village Voice Says 'Ta-Ta' to Backpage.com: "A group of managers is buying the Village Voice and all its affiliated free arts weeklies but is leaving behind the online classified site Backpage.com, whose listings have drawn fire for promoting the illegal sex trade," reports the Associated Press.

Nine Dead: In a Himilayan avalanche that ripped down the side of Nepal's Mount Manaslu and destroyed the climbers' tented camp. Four climbers are still missing.

Now then, let us ring in this overcast* sunny Monday morning together, Gangnam Style:

*Forgive me. Everything looks grey at 6:00 a.m.

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That baby giant panda was murdered!

Posted by MacCrocodile

on September 24, 2012 at 7:04 AM

I wonder what roasted panda taste like.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on September 24, 2012 at 7:19 AM

@2 Not cool, dude.

Posted by OuterCow on September 24, 2012 at 7:38 AM

Not that this isn't blatantly obvious to most people: but the ER is not a solution. ER's are supposed to be for actual emergencies and not, ya know, for colds and/or for check-ups. They're also not great for the management of chronic conditions. And, besides the uninsured racking up bills for themselves, ERs are giant money sink holes for hospitals and lots of hospitals no longer have them.

Non-emergency patients and patients that cost hospitals lots of money are not favorites of doctors, nurses, hospitals, HMOs or the gov't (because the hospital bills the gov't for uninsured patients. Not that the gov't pays up, they usually don't. They'll contest that most of the treatment was unnecessary.). People using the ER as their PCP is a lose for everyone.

Posted by moosefan on September 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM

What's a 'color export'? Are we exporting color to the 'Himilayans'?

Posted by Dr_Awesome on September 24, 2012 at 7:44 AM

The Storm are screwed and will be relegated to the backseat of Hansen's Big Plan to Screw Everyone. Thanks, Goldy.

Posted by hmmmmm on September 24, 2012 at 7:46 AM

Gangnam Style, he sure hit a pleasure nerve center with it.

Posted by Sargon Bighorn on September 24, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Someone needs to look into who is putting up the money for the editors and publishers to buy out the Village Voice papers, because if it is the current owners, the ones who are keeping Back Page, then it is just a sham. Based on these guys history one should assume this is a head fake unless it can be verified to be an arms length transaction.

Posted by ratcityreprobate on September 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM

@3 - Actually, you would want to let it sit for a while. Otherwise, you risk losing all those delicious baby panda juices, and the baby panda will be dry and flavorless.

Posted by MacCrocodile

on September 24, 2012 at 8:59 AM

Cienna: "Final SoDo Basketball Arena Vote"

No, it's not. King Co. approved one contract. Seattle has now changed that. It means it goes back to King Co to discuss/debate/vote again.

If there's no coordination between the two councils, this could ping-pong back and forth for quite some time.

Posted by TJ on September 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM

@4,

In addition to that, we could really benefit from more urgent care clinics or from doctors having weekend hours. Right now, if you come down with pneumonia over the weekend, even if you're insured with a regular PCP, you're still going to the ER for treatment, because there aren't many other options.

Posted by keshmeshi on September 24, 2012 at 10:54 AM

Tomorrow it will be 42 days.

Sigh.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on September 24, 2012 at 11:42 AM

I was at Seattle Center yesterday, and I will reiterate: The Coliseum must not be destroyed. The people who say it's ugly, outdated, etc, are of the exact same dull-minded mindset as the people in the 50's who said Pioneer Square was ugly, outdated, etc.

It's seriously too lovely of a building to let slip away. Put a damn high school inside if you want to, but the exterior shell must be preserved.

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay