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Dear pansy-ass liberals at KUOW--stop the relativism. Just as there's a difference between Gitmo and My Lai, there's a difference between East and West Marginal Way.

Ding dong the car tax's dead. The wicked car tax is dead. Well, not officially dead like you'll get out of paying it if your car tabs come up this month, but the Monorail Project has started the process of ending the tax on June 30th, due to the fact that all those sexy properties the Project swept up to make way for the Green Line have been selling like hotcakes. Uh, hotcakes that you force private residents to sell you for a mass transit line you don't intend to build and then sell back to the public for more than what you paid for them. That kind of hotcakes.

A man described as distraught apparently attempted suicide last night by jumping from the First Avenue South bridge in West Seattle. His wife and child in a nearby car witnessed the unsuccessful attempt. The First Avenue South bridge is not very high, although there are a number of much higher jumps in the area. The 20-yr-old male was sufficiently mobile after his first jump to climb back on the bridge and try again.