The latest on 1st Lt. Ehren Watada, the Washington soldier who refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006 on the grounds that he believed the war was illegal: a federal judge ruled this week that re-trying Watada on three of the five counts against him in current court martial proceedings would constitute double jeopardy, and therefore he may only stand trial for the remaining two charges. In February of 2007, the first time Watada faced the courts for his unusual actions, the judge declared a mistrial. Looks like our man will be on desk duty for quite awhile yet! more ›

-It's been months, hell, a whole season actually, but Mossback has finally come around to Seattlest's way of thinking about the Viaduct. more ›

-There's a great article on the rise of some aquatic species and the decline of others today that you might have missed because it's in the Puget Sound Business Journal. more ›

The guy at Fort Lewis who has "serious reservations" about war fighting in Iraq to the extent that he's refusing to deploy is Honolulu native Ehren Watada. Assuming that he's the sole Ehren Watada from Hawaii it looks like his dad is Bob Watada who was the executive director of the state Campaign Spending Commission in Hawaii for a long time and according to the available reports kicked a lot of ass in that capacity. He retired in 2005, but not before doing a bunch of good stuff like this: more ›