Darcy Burner, Dave Reichert's Democratic challenger in the 8th Congressional District's race, lost her home this morning to a fire. Early reports say the house was destroyed but the candidate and her family escaped without injury. We'll post more details, including photos, as soon as they are released. **UPDATE: King 5 has video footage of the fire. FURTHER UPDATE: From our own Brad Cassiday, who was on the scene taking photos: According to the Redmond......

Actually the weirdest part of the evening at Town Hall came during the Q&A, when someone asked cognitive linguistics professor George Lakoff to talk about the campaign, cognitive-linguistically speaking. Lakoff started talking off the top of his head about how John McCain is running on character, but what about these rumors of him committing an act of treason as a POW? Our mind boggled a bit so we can't quote the rest, but it got......