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The Seattle Weekly government in exile launched its website today and has promised to continue posting to it until the people rise up and give them their paper back. Anyone pining for the city's other weekly and its lovable cast of characters circa the Bronze Age through about a year ago should head over to Crosscut immediately. We'll see you back here when you've had your fill.

--Chuck Klosterman in Esquire: It has now been five days since Britney Spears became Xavier McDaniel.

--A truly fantastic feature by Greg Bishop of the Seattle Times about three UW football players who quit the team in 1970, claiming racial discrimination. They kept a pact never to reveal the source of the discrimination until now.

-State senator Pat Thibaudeau announced that she won't try to retain her seat in the 43rd against Ed Murray (who announced recently that he wants it). Evergreen Politics has an obit.

Newspaper circulation numbers for daily newspapers were released recently, and (you may want to sit down for this) circulation is down! We'll give you a moment to clutch at your heart and flop about in your Aeron - Just nod when you're ready for us to go on...

In yesterday's Sunday edition Eric Pryne dropped his first article on the Joint Operating Agreement between the Seattle Times and the (more youthful and urban, apparently) P-I since he took over the beat from the independent contractor Bill Richards.

We go on and on about how great it is that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. Ok, maybe not "on and on", but we've said it at least a few times. Once for sure. We're saying it now: It's great that Seattle has two strong alternative weekly papers. What we have probably been a little quieter about is that fact that our city is also served by two strong daily papers and, truth be told, Seattlest might link to a story from either the Seattle Times or the Post Intelligencer's from time to time. Every day. Several times every day, actually, and rarely are their praises sung around here. Praising the PI just doesn't get you the same points that talking up The Stranger does in Seattlest's circles.