While the country was busy blindly voting for whoever they fancied, Seattle Weekly writer Don Ward was hard at work being a true patriot and writing an important blog post for the Weekly. We only wish he'd opened our eyes sooner before we so ignorantly cast our ballot. Ward's post, titled, "The Question for Obama Supporters" asks: "Off the top of your head, name one actual accomplishment, or a bill Obama has passed. Or even......

Maybe you're sick of the back-and-forth of political debates, where nothing substantive is actually said and everything boils down to the repetition of key drinking words ("maverick," "my friends," and "the Bush administration"). But just in case you're not yet fully revolted by the process, there's a debate tonight today in Bellevue between Dave Reichert and Darcy Burner--the two candidates head-to-head in a rematch for the 8th Congressional District seat. This is the first debate......

Photo of "Darcy Burner: Candidate for the 8th District" from Burner's Official Campaign Flickr Group Thanks Daily Kos! For the second consecutive quarter, Darcy Burner, the Democratic challenger in the race for the 8th Congressional District, http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008053572_webfundraising15m.html">out-raised Republican incumbent Dave Reichert. In the second quarter of fundraising, Burner had raised $1.25 million for her campaign, to her challenger's $916,401. Burner and Reichert have a history of heated contests. Their race for the same seat in......

Eric Alterman is the sort of liberal we like to refer to as a "Democrat," as in, capitol "D" Democratic Party stalwart. As such, this Nation columnist and Media Matters blogger was an arch-partisan prototype for those crazy kids at DailyKos, back in the days when armchair politicos were relegated to penning rants to the editor of their local newspaper. In advance of his appearance tonight at Town Hall to promote his new book, Why......

So we'll begin, the guy at the podium said, the huge black blast door in the Microsoft Auditorium at the Downtown Library eased down its track, slowly cutting off our view of the lobby, and we shivered. "I wish the P-I were here," said the Stranger's Josh Feit at one point. "This is what they do really well." Oddly enough, the Seattle P-I, the hands-down leader in news on the web around here, wasn't on......

The overnight blogs are abuzz: Tenet (slamdunking Iraq) and Goldy (recycling poisoned pet food). Both merit close attention, but Goldy (David Goldstein) is right here in Seattle, and he's making international news. Let's not forget that his blog, HorsesAss.org, was the first to reveal Michael Brown's bogus credentials to run FEMA. This time, it's another fuckup, but with truly ominous potential: China's melamine-laced pet food was recycled as feed for domestic pork, and our......

Speak now before McCain's new bill makes us turn comments off forever. – Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.” – Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs. — Social networking sites will be forced to take......

Darcy Burner has a diary up at Daily Kos today that talks about Net Neutrality and furthers our opinion that she has an understanding of the internets beyond the "series of tubes" imagery of other nameless (ahem, look up there, ahem, Alaska) state politicians. The strengths of the Internet lie in its decentralized, organic nature. It is non-proprietary and open. It is remarkable because it is so democratic, embodying the ideals our nation was founded......

If you're a liberal, a Democrat, left-leaning, a new media person, an old media person, a fundraiser, a grassroots organizer, or a blogger or any combination of those you probably already know that some of the cool kids are in town this weekend and have plans to catch them in concert at least once. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD are going to be kicking around Seattle and the area......

Watch the news tonight (local and national) for references to Seattle's top political blog Horsesass.org and his involvement with the forces of darkness (in this case former FEMA head Brown's lawyers). The Westneat column in the Seattle Times is on the story as well and much of the going's on have been cross-posted to The Daily Kos. The posts in question revolve around David Goldstein (aka horesesass.org) and some homework he did on the disgraced......