All The News

-Let's not have a repeat of last year's fiasco. Make sure to read this guide to photographing fireworks.
-If you're there, fine, but if you're the type who would forsake the out-of-doors this weekend for the live feed of Gnomedex, well, you can't be helped.
-Howard Kuntsler responds to WorldChanging's questions about oil, the environment, Wal-Mart and his blog "Clusterfuck Nation."
-Talking Points Memo is running a contest to see who can get Maria Cantwell's Republican challenger Mike McGavick to state his position on Social Security.
-This weekend's Wooden Boat Festival might be one of your last chances to knock a hole in the Wawona.
-An opportunity to strengthen our bonds with China, a country whose influence on the economy, science and the environmental health of the globe, was shit on this week when UW declined to create a campus there.
-Peter Callaghan wonders in the pages of the News Tribune who's paying for the Seahawks' new training facility. Sound Politics says me too.
-Cans of whale meat are being sold in Japan in antici-pation of the IWC's bullshit decision to allow whaling.