The headline: "White House E-Mail Inquiry Will Widen." The story: how the Bush administration has quite possibly made a major infraction, broken big giant rules, or in the P-I's words, "committed 'extensive' [legal] violations." Remember that whole Alberto Gonzalez thing? Where it was speculated that the Attorney General deliberately fired a bevy of federal attorneys for political reasons, to appease a certain political agenda? There was a moment during all that hoo-ah when someone mentioned......

A couple of national heavies just blew through town to promote either side of our coming senate race and the most interesting things to come out of both visits was the dissent. Maria Cantwell got called out for the Iraq war votes that she's sticking to while she was sharing the stage with Barak Obama. John McCain's finest Seattle moment happened on the radio after his McGavick event. A caller asked about the shady background......

Political moments come and go pretty quickly in Seattle, but more often than not they are etched in vinyl on fender years after their time in the sun. Read the city's bumper stickers and you'll know that Seattle was feeling Howard Dean even if all the meetup.com hysteria is in the past. Remember the Democrat you were way back a year ago when you, full of hopes and dreams, slapped that sticker on the back......