Monthly Archives: September 2006

Will Jessie Jackson threaten to sue?

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Phil Kadath

We all know how Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH organization works: When the funds run low, they find a company who could use some suing and threaten to use the press to slander said company as “racists” unless they hire more non-caucasians (oddly enough, … Continue reading →

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The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day: 09/08

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Phil Kadath

His sloth makes your tax dollars jump into his wallet. At least if you live in Idaho. A former inmate in the Nez Perce County Jail is suing the county for one-thousand dollars because he says he had to buy … Continue reading →

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An Orgy of Screams

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Phil Kadath

On Monday, local haters of big-box capitalism had themselves a little rally to denounce their favorite demon, Wal-Mart. It was titled: “Change Wal-Mart, Change America” and the event spanned 35 cities in 19 states in 35 days. Seattle was the … Continue reading →

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Long Ago

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Phil Kadath

On an Interweb far, far away… I was a late bloomer on getting on the web, sometime around January of 2000. When I did finally get online, I had a Compuserve dialup account and used it to look up the … Continue reading →

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Heaven Forbid

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Phil Kadath

The blogging left is united in raising their arms up in frantic “Bwaaa!” mode over ABC’s TV movie “The Path to 9/11”. At festering pools like the inappropriately named Americablog, you have to look inbetween the anti-ABC posts to find … Continue reading →

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The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day: 09/07

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Phil Kadath

You go to the library to learn, but you shouldn’t be wasting your time learning how to not get lost. Too many people getting lost in new downtown library For all the architectural artistry of Rem Koolhaas’ downtown Seattle library, … Continue reading →

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I’ve told them before

Posted on September 7, 2006 by Phil Kadath

“Hug a logger. You’ll never go back to trees.” But they just don’t listen. The battle for Seattle’s trees is beginning The Emerald City isn’t so green after all. Since 1972 Seattle has lost nearly 1.7 million trees — more … Continue reading →

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Search Your Memory

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Phil Kadath

I want to know, when you first gained access to the internet, what was the first site/place/thing you found absolutely enthralling and couldn’t pull yourself away from (besides the free porn). If you can provide a link to it, great, … Continue reading →

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The Soundboard: When old is new again

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Phil Kadath

In 04 Rush put out an EP disc of cover tunes called “Feedback”. I had put it on my list of things to buy and finally got around to it a few weeks back. I was pleasantly surprised by the … Continue reading →

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Not Thinking Things Through To Their Conclusion

Posted on September 6, 2006 by Phil Kadath

Over at the TPM Cafe, Greg Anrig Jr. posts the runner up for today’s “The Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day” post. He argues that the best thing to help the “genuine economic problems confronting average American families” is to legislate in … Continue reading →

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