Mayor Ed Murray’s War on Tolerance & Diversity
Growing up, I was called a “faggot” more times than I can remember. Probably 10,000 times, maybe more. Come to think of it, everyone was called faggot. In fact, I doubt a single day went by when I, my...
View ArticleI Apologize
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray on Saturday announced his decision to prohibit the use of city funds for travel by all city employees on city business to the State of Indiana after the passage of S.B. 101....
View ArticleAnother Dispatch from the Streets of MEattle
Who looks exactly the way that I look? Me! When I am reading, who’s holding the book? Me! When I want dinner, who always will feed me? Who’s always handy whenever I need me? Firm as a feather in all...
View ArticleSuing Amazon
• I placed an order and paid extra for, and I quote, “Guaranteed Two-Day Shipping”. (I’ve never had anything arrive in 2 days from Amazon via second day shipping, but I guess I’m an optimist. Plus...
View ArticleBlocked by My Mayor
After being down for a day last month throughout Seattle, being down several times since, and once again … being down most of today, I decided to tweet the Mayor to express my disappointment that he’s...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned After 2 Weeks of Cat Ownership
No! What did Daddy say about articulation? It’s THis! With a ‘TH’! I’m taking the whole toe now you illiterate little fuck! I’ve had cats before, but it’s been awhile since my last one. This being...
View ArticleI See Your Twuuuuu Colors Shining Through … Again
They came, they gentrified, they kicked black people, poor people, and pretty much everyone except affluent, ex-suburban white kids out of the city. Before you knew it, wide swaths of American cities...
View ArticleA Funny Thing Happened on My Way Home from Work
I was walking home from work on Tuesday night when some guy sauntered up beside me and said “Pssst, you need tickets?” “No”, I replied, before looking up at the nearby Paramount Theater marquee to see...
View ArticleHypocrite
Twice, once in 2008, and again in 2012, the Mayor of Seattle (and nearly all of those Seattleites who call themselves “progressive”), voted for a man, the President of the United States, who was...
View ArticleWashington Initiative 594: A Rare Win for the Wealthy
Well, you won. It won. Initiative 594, the one that requires mostly-proletariat gun owners to register with the ruling-class. With overwhelming support coming from our wealthiest, most highly-educated...
View ArticleSeattle’s Ferguson Social Parade
They’re bored as hell, and they’re not going to take it any more! Believe it or not, I had to work today. Yes, yes, I know, I know, working is sooooo proletariat, and therefore so un-nuevo-Seattle, but...
View ArticleSpotted: The Outrage Machine’s “Check Engine” Light
The Outrage Machine, perhaps the best example of modern American craftsmanship there is, has really been churning along the past couple of years, and it’s been doing so, well past the red line. Alas,...
View ArticleTold You So
The poor went to war so you could go to UW, and when they came back, you called them gun nuts. And racists. And homophones. And, let’s face it, far worse. Hillary Clinton was anti-gay marriage in...
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