Monday, June 13, 2005
Local notes
It looks like Shaun Cross is setting himself up as the plug-n-play replacement when Gayor West finally, um, goes down.
I'm happy to see this. Cross ran for Nethercutt's Congressional seat in '04, but was narrowly defeated by Gutless Cathy McMorris in the primary. I don't know why; maybe Gutless is just cuter. Cross was definitely the better candidate. He's an open Christian, a clear thinker, and has strong local business connections.
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Donald Hellmann, a professor from UW, has decided to conduct his own foreign policy by holding a meeting with other academics and governmental officials in North Korea.
Anand Yang, director of the Jackson School of International Studies, called Hellmann's project 'an attempt to keep [the same] engagement going at an academic level that we're struggling to do diplomatically.' Yang said the school is moving toward engaging in foreign policy outside the classroom.
Goody goody fucking gumdrop. What the world needs now is more Jimmy Carters.
See this Seattle Times story for more.
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City workers digging new sewers under a major street found an old grave. They stopped work and called in an anthropologist. Luckily it's an early white settler, not an Ind'n; the workers were allowed to close the grave and continue working. If it had been an Ind'n, we would undoubtedly have been required to demolish Downtown. (Can you tell I'm pissed about sacralizing defeated enemies?)
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A couple of local boys have become candidates for a Darwin Award. They were playing with one of those plastic-sheet water slide thingies, and experimenting with various liquids for maximum slide velocity. They found that gasoline was fastest, but also found that the static charge generated by sliding ignited the gasoline. One of them was seriously burned.
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I'm happy to see this. Cross ran for Nethercutt's Congressional seat in '04, but was narrowly defeated by Gutless Cathy McMorris in the primary. I don't know why; maybe Gutless is just cuter. Cross was definitely the better candidate. He's an open Christian, a clear thinker, and has strong local business connections.
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Donald Hellmann, a professor from UW, has decided to conduct his own foreign policy by holding a meeting with other academics and governmental officials in North Korea.
Anand Yang, director of the Jackson School of International Studies, called Hellmann's project 'an attempt to keep [the same] engagement going at an academic level that we're struggling to do diplomatically.' Yang said the school is moving toward engaging in foreign policy outside the classroom.
Goody goody fucking gumdrop. What the world needs now is more Jimmy Carters.
See this Seattle Times story for more.
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City workers digging new sewers under a major street found an old grave. They stopped work and called in an anthropologist. Luckily it's an early white settler, not an Ind'n; the workers were allowed to close the grave and continue working. If it had been an Ind'n, we would undoubtedly have been required to demolish Downtown. (Can you tell I'm pissed about sacralizing defeated enemies?)
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A couple of local boys have become candidates for a Darwin Award. They were playing with one of those plastic-sheet water slide thingies, and experimenting with various liquids for maximum slide velocity. They found that gasoline was fastest, but also found that the static charge generated by sliding ignited the gasoline. One of them was seriously burned.
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