Back before college football got completely screwed up, the Huskies were a national power. You laugh, but it's true. more ›

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. more ›

In the News That Thinking People Already Know department today we're all anticipating the revised cost estimates for the Viaduct replacement. Yeah, yeah, extra, extra, guess what? It's going to cost more than previously quoted. Apparently a crack team of experts got together in a laboratory and placed the previous estimates into a transporter pod like in The Fly, but little did they know that a tiny speck of reality got in there as well. The pod beamed the report and the reality across the room but when it came time to reassemble them the computer combined their DNA into a single entity. more ›