All The News

-This is a Detroit newspaper complaining about the lack of Starbucks cafes in their city. We shit you not. It looks like the Detroit airport has more Starbucksi than the city.

-There are tomes to be written about Seattle drivers, but don't look for a chapter on road rage. We're cool as cucumbers behind the wheel. "You go." "No, you go." "No, I insist."

-A guy in Snohomish County was arrested last night after beating his wife and their four-month-old infant. The baby is at Harborview, the mom's ok and the asshole's in jail charged with Attempted Murder and Assault of a fucking four-month-old Child. Seriously. What the fuck.

-A Seattle court decided that RJ Reynolds and their diabolical Winston Lights are not responsible for the lung cancer death of Carla Kimball in 2001.

-A few hundred truckers gathered at the Tacoma Dome today to protest gas prices and exchange meth recipies this morning.

-KEXP's looking for some unpaid labor. Head on over and volunteer yourself for deployment to the faraway land of independent radio.

-This item may be interesting to nearly no one but Seattlest, but the Washington State Board of Pilotage Commissioners has voted to increase the cost of pilotage in the Puget Sound in order to keep pilots from bolting the area due to low compensation.

-If you aren't a very good football player, don't get in a bar fight with your brother. Meet Wayne Hunter: bad football player, fraternal fighter. Now he's lost his job, and the $867,500 salary he was to earn next year. Whoops.

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