Washington Mutual stock closed down today (why haven't we made that into auto-text yet?), at $2.01, which is also the price of this Murder City Devils DVD on eBay. The market closed down 500. The Fed let the market put a bullet in the head of Lehman Brothers over the weekend, and the Merrill Lynch bull was sold to the Bank of America slaughterhouse, so no one's in the mood to buy WaMu's pigs-in-a-poke shares. If our local savings and loan goes woohoo, though, we know who to blame. Or not. Scientific consensus our ass. more ›

Welcome to Part One of Seattlest's exhaustive investigative report on when, if ever, the city's appetite for exhaustive investigative reports on dot-com excess will be sated. more ›