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Surprisingly, the above ad (NSFW, unless your work is burlesque- and/or violence-friendly) isn't part of PETA's "sea kittens" campaign, but it might as well be. Objectification of women? Check. Making fish "sexy"? Check. Somehow drawing a parallel between killing a person with harming a fish? Check. The PSA is from Dutch animal rights group Wakker Dier ("awake animal"), but we fully except PETA to recruit some local burlesque performers the next time they need to protest Pike Place Market fish-throwing.

PETA isn't a fan of the fishmongers using real fish as "props." They'd prefer rubber fish instead. Now, a reasonable person might point out that the fish they use don't have feelings to be bruised, they're dead. But in the realm of sea kittens, reason is scarce.

We're reluctant to spend this absolutely glorious sunny Monday morning writing about this weekend's horrific murders down in Graham, Washington. What Seattlest would rather do is watch web cams of Northwest wildlife, and we bet that's what you'd rather think about, too. The Hancock Wildlife Foundation has two live streaming web cams of bald eagle nests in British Columbia, and a handful of other recorded segments from years past of such wonders as the Chehalis salmon run. When will Dreamworks make a movie about talking, singing bald eagles and Chinook salmon? We'd buy that DVD/BluRay combo pack. Mornings and webcams like these remind us that we have the privilege of making our home in one of the world's most bountiful, beautiful areas. Sunshine, please stay!

Last week, Dishin' delivered the scoop on fried shrimp heads from our favorite sushi restaurant in Seattle.

Sign, signs, everywhere a sign. Unemployment leads to fewer traffic jams. Glad we could help you out with that. Over in Perugia, Italy, investigators on the stand today said Amanda Knox turned cartwheels at the police station. And down in the deep blue sea there's a groovy new species of fish that a UW scientist named psychedelia. We'll smoke up to that.

One of the downsides of being a restaurant reporter is that when there's a night off from a planned meal out, we usually want to cook something at home--whether simple or complex. This probably sounds like a strange complaint to some, but we rarely go out and eat "critique-free," and when we do, we prefer little Asian restaurants.

Ever since we almost died from choking on a salmon bone, Seattlest has known the truth: fish are terrorists, they are anti-American, and they should be illegal. It's nice to know the feds are on their enforcement game: early this morning, Immigrations and the FDA raided Ocean Beauty Seafoods, a seafood processing plant here in Seattle, taking with them all kinds of "historical stuff" (verbatim from Ocean Beauty's Director of Marketing). No official word on the reasoning behind the raid, and the company's still in business shipping out slimy briny dead creatures for profit.

John Fish (spokesman for the McCain campaign): I'd like to open the floor for questions.

No sensationalism, please, no hoaxes. No phony "Fierce French Fish (Bites the Hand that Feeds It)" headlines. Seriousness must prevail, even when Seattlest is posting dispatches from the west coast of France.