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Left Coast bulletins, politics, global democracy, education, culture and blogosphere musings from Seattle journalist Matt Rosenberg. E-mail: oudist@nwlink.com. (English (US))
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Last Feed Sample: All photos by Matt Rosenberg, copyright 2008 Waikiki Beach was still dusted with the last night's late March snow when we arrived. That'd be Waikiki Beach in Washington's Cape Disappointment State Park, (left). A loop route takes you back out...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Some restaurants attach old farm implements to the wall for rustic flavor. In Polebridge, Montana - a small settlement just outside the northwest reaches of Glacier National Park - the very same sort of rusty gizmos lie in a natural...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
In the wake of CBS's firing of shock talk jock Don Imus for calling members of the Rutgers womens' basketball team "nappy-headed hos," there have appeared a series of seemingly well intentioned op-eds, editorials and blog posts correctly noting his...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
More On The School Indoctrination Plan, And The Theoretical Underpinnings On its Web site, the Seattle Public Schools Office of Equity and Race Relations details what it expects of the students from four Seattle high schools who are being sent...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
As David Postman first reported in the Seattle Times, the union representing Seattle Public Schools teachers has written to Seattle state legislators that they are perpetrating "institutional racism and institutional classism" by failing to drop state testing requirements in reading...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
After the first five days of our San Diego sojourn last month, we headed up to Orange County; synonymous with upscale affluence, conservatism and plastic surgery. There are several television "reality" shows set in Orange County, and one ensemble drama....
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Our second day in San Diego, while my wife confabbed with mortgage lenders, the kids and I explored city's western reaches, along the Pacific, far away from our downtown nest. We took a cab - but could have taken the...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
UPDATED: Some years ago when my wife and I were in a San Francisco bookstore preparing for a trip up the coast to Oregon, I asked where to find a related guidebook and a very gay sales clerk unabashedly teased...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Citing the defendant's mental incompetence to understand charges and assist her defense, King County Superior Court Judge Helen Halpert recently dismissed a dual murder rap against a woman who drank herself stuporous while two of her kids died of starvation...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
UPDATED: Ah, the Super Bowl. As an official Boomer geezer I can remember the very first few, though I was but a child. Including when "Broadway Joe" Namath led the upstart AFL's New York Jets to victory over the NFL's...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
There are several reasons Chinese citizens need intestinal fortitude to join the quasi-religious movement known as Falun Gong. One being the ruling Communist government's thought control imperative. Falun Gong adherents have long been subject to imprisonment, torture, and even execution...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
UPDATED: The film "Zoo" was well received at the prestigious Sundance festival. It seems the story inspired by one Boeing engineer named Kenneth Pinyan, who was killed being anally penetrated by a horse, is partly about how we can cruelly...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Associated Press reports Seattle-based Authentic Hendrix has licensed Beverage Concepts, a new Calabasas, California company, to market a line of Jimi Hendrix energy drinks called "Liquid Experience." Rock stalwart Flea, bassist and leader of the venerable Red Hot Chili Peppers,...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Globe and Mail columnist Leah McLaren nails it today: "Alternaparents" and their kids aren't nearly as cool as alternaparents think. What is an alternaparent, anyway? Basically a Gen X-er who finally settled down and reproduced, and thinks that's just so...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
Joel Connelly, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "Sure It's Nice, But Sculpture Park Isn't All That" David Larson, Seattle Times, "The Inconvenient Truth About School Board's Film Decision"" Matt Smith, San Francisco Weekly, "Drive-by Reporting: A Primer For Out-Of-Town Journalists Flocking to The...
Wed, 9 Apr 2008 1:34:05 PDT
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