In the middle of Steven Pinker's talk at Town Hall last night, the lecture morphed into some surprisingly blue comedy. We'll warn you now: what follows is adult language content. more ›

Washington has, for the last 15 or so years, been losing tons of potential motion picture business. Sure, we get the occasional Mad Love, Assassins, or Twin Peaks, but filmmakers find shooting in the Great White North much more affordable. MovieMaker magazine regularly lists cities which are friendly to filmmakers. Seattle often appears on the list, but cities such as New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Austin and Portland are perrenial favorites. These cities offer tax incentives to production companies enabling the filmmakers to more affordably make their films on location. more ›

A lot has been written both in the mainstream media and online about Microsoft's reversal on the state of Washington's gay rights bill and Seattlest would like to add to the din provide a few links here. The short of it is that Microsoft had been getting resounding cheers from across the land (and on the web) for supporting House Bill 1515, an anti-discrimination bill, until the 11th hour when it withdrew its support for the bill and it died in Olympia. Critics say that it was pressure from the Right, including from pastor Ken Hutcherson, that brought about the sudden change of heart. more ›