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OH THE HORROR: Every Monday in January is a different silent movie, complete with Dennis James on The Paramount's mighty Wurlitzer organ. This time around, Trader Joe's Silent Movie Mondays features scary silent classics from the '20s, kicking off with tonight's showing of Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

We have gathered some of the top political writers in the country and asked them to discuss the presidential race throughout the year. Today they review Tuesday's doings in New Hampshire.

Everything we know about dodging the draft by heading to Canada we learned from The Brothers K and popular mythology. So, we don't know much. Little before our time, there. Despite the fact that today's army is all volunteer (and today's Canada is more Conservative) there are still some soldiers waiting out Iraq up north. Almost everyone that this Salon article mentions seems to have already pulled a shift in the Middle East and is in Canada dodging a redeployment. The article talks about these soldiers (they estimate some 250 of them) and the great lengths that Canada has gone to to see that they are returned to the U.S. military.

A friend of ours just told us a little story today about how her Marine boyfriend, recently back from a tour of duty in Iraq, tried to break up a drunken fight a couple months ago outside the Jack in the Box at Broadway and Denny. Our soldier in question was out late one night with a drunken friend, who decided that what he needed most out of life was the thrill of throwing orange traffic cones in to the street, and then inevitably one of these hit a passing car. The offended driver jumped out to kick some ass, but the man's obesity handicapped his ass-kicking abilities and soon the lard-ass found himself on the ground under the fists of the drunken cone-thrower, who managed to successfully rip the fat bastard's shirt off. Our Marine -- unscathed from his deployment to the Middle East -- intervened to break up the fight, only to have the fat man's girlfriend jump out of the car and punch him in the face, slicing the flesh around his eye with her ring. If surviving the Sunni/Shiite conflict gives one a justified sense of confidence bordering on invulnerability, then take heed: Don't fuck with porked-out pears while in such close proximity to the hallowed grounds of Jack in the Box, for they are the protected chosen people enjoying magical defenses near their promised land.

You may have noticed all the rain recently.

As an occasional Husky-watcher, we'll defer to Seattlest Seth on post-game analysis. But we can say that this was the single most boringly awful game we've ever seen at Husky Stadium. The Huskies assured us they weren't looking past the 0-9 Stanford Cardinal team. This afternoon, they looked past the entire football field. The talk show guys on the radio said they couldn't recall a more inept performance. It was like WWI trench warfare, with punters.

RSVP is req'd.

The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby is disturbed by a disparity in the national media's treatment of Mel Gibson's liquored-up anti-semitic rantings versus Naveed Haq's shooting spree at the Jewish Federation:

Unless you've spent the past week submersed in the Mariana Trench, you know that the intoxicated driver in Incident A was Hollywood's Mel Gibson, who railed at a Los Angeles County police officer about the "[expletive] Jews" and how "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." The story was soon everywhere. In the first six days after his arrest, the media database Nexis logged 888 stories mentioning "Mel Gibson" and "Jews." And that didn't include the countless websites, talk shows, and smaller publications that also took it up.

Continue reading "Gibson Beats Haq, 888 to 236"

There's been a lot of talk about playwright Elizabeth Heffron's decision to use "abortion" in the title of her play. We're concerned about the use of the name "Mitzi." As you no doubt know, Mitzi reached its height of popularity in the 1960s (481st out of the top 1,000 girls' names), then fell off a cliff by the 1980s, no longer in the top 1,000 at all. What was Heffron thinking, picking such an unpopular name?

There are many things that Seattle liberals hate: the increasing price of fleece vests, driving over 25mph on arterials, and when one of their senators votes for war in the Middle East.

After being closed last year for reroofing, the Seattle Asian Art Museum opened January 14 with four new shows. The wily curators at SAAM knew you weren't paying attention, though, so they scheduled the Grand Reopening for this Saturday, the 21st. The celebration inside features "music, dance, and theater from Asian cultures," a grouping that includes Sumo wrestling and DJ Anup Shastri. There will be FREE Starbucks Coffee served between 10am and 1pm for the incredibly budget-conscious and possibly anemic. Suggested admission for adults is just $5, which is so inexpensive it doesn't make it worth our while to tell you that children get in for even less.