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Pandora is batting a perfect 1.000 for Seattlest HQ this morning with Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" as the seeder (does it get better than Outkast, Jay-Z, Talib Kweli, the GZA, and Missy Elliott on a Tuesday?). But what really put this morning over the top in terms of all-around greatness was finding this Wall Street Journal article about the writer's life, Obama, and the White House by local author Jonathan Raban, via Slog. An excerpt from Raban's essay:

In politics, "realism" is usually just another term for pragmatism, or Realpolitik. But "Dreams From My Father" suggests that for Obama the word is rooted less in a political than in a literary tradition, where it has a far richer meaning. It signifies the watchful eye and patiently attentive ear; a proper humility in the face of the multiplex character of human society; and, most of all, a belief in the power of the writer's imagination to comprehend and ultimately reconcile the manifold contradictions in his teeming world.

Yesterday Seattlest said the following:

Last Friday we had that nightmare where we go back to high school, only we were awake and wearing clothes. From what we read in the papers, high school is a nightmare that has to do with standardized tests leaving kids behind, but that's not the impression we left with.

You couldn't drive Rainier Ave. much of yesterday after a sailor drove his Beamer into a telephone pole Saturday night, killing himself and three fellow Navy men.

Any day now Seattle will catch a break. I mean we are owed one.