Results tagged “regulations”

We're getting a new Major League Soccer team and everyone either is or should be excited. Drew Carey's walking around town, season tickets are flying off the shelves and the MLS Cup is approaching this weekend. On the field Houston faces New England, but there's sure to be a lot of talk during the broadcast about Seattle, our new team and the interesting ideas that have been associated with it. Unfortunately, no one in Seattle will see that broadcast. KOMO won't be showing it. A reader figured out it wasn't on KOMO's schedule and sent them an email. Here's what he got in return:

Slate asked Dan Savage and six other "sexperts" what, despite their experience, they still don't get about sex. Savage's answer:

What I don't understand is ... gee, how people can be so willfully stupid about sex. Sex came first. Before marriage, there was sex. Before religion, there was sex. Before freakin' humans, there was sex. All human cultures, and all our fanciful religions, were constructed around sex, built to regulate and control sex, sanctify and elevate sex. But so many people want to start with culture or religion before they approach sex, as if the former can teach us all we need to know about the latter. Not true. We have to start with sex. I'm not arguing that we should do away with all regulations or controls, or that sex shouldn't be sanctified or elevated. But there are regulations and controls that are idiotic, products of a time when we didn't truly understand human hair growth—or physics or gravity or the movement of the planets—much less human sexuality, and they should be reassessed. I'm thinking of bans on prostitution, bans on same-sex marriage, the promotion of "normal" sexuality (meaning: no kinks), the cultural assumption that the ability to have sex without love is evidence of some sort of mental illness. In these areas, some of our attempts to sanctify and elevate sex run so counter to human nature that they cause nothing buy misery.

This morning, reported on inaccuracies in its article from a week age today on elements of the sting operation, including the disputed claim that a gun made it into Tommy's on the Ave after a bouncer was offered a $100 bribe. Jush Feit over at the Slog tore them a new one for getting info wrong again, particularly on the point about violence.

, "Seventeen bouncers, bartenders and other nightclub employees were arrested Saturday night for allegedly violating state liquor laws."

Three short weeks ago, it was Seattlest trivia night. Tonight, we're back, hosting the pub quiz at the Old Pequliar in Ballard.

State Democrats are calling shenanigans on Dino Rossi's "Forward Washington Foundation," arguing that it's just "Rossi in 2008" by a different name.

Everyone's going to get all lovey-dovey today and say, "Oh, I don't care who you vote for, just get to the polls and make your voice heard for the sake of democracy, blah, blah." Even President Bush, the most partisan president in a century, said as much this morning.

Somehow, the world of -ists managed to make it through the week despite news that Jen & Vince broke up.

We established yesterday that Portland wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that they have residents who quit the car (for a month) in much the same way Ballard resident Allen Durning has (for good). Tenuous, maybe, but good on 'em. The idea that families need automobiles like they need prime time television should be challenged. Today we suggest that San Francisco wants to be Seattle by pointing out the fact that their lap dances are being threatened in much the same way ours were (successfully, unfortunately) recently.

The Port is on a mission to kill Fishermen's Terminal and thereby stamp out one of the last embers of working Seattle. By "kill" we mean "revitalize" or "update for today's urban needs" or something else that means a healthy and functioning area of the city will be wiped away to make room for yuppie entertainments. No more liveaboards, the Port says, ostensibly in response to the four bodies that have been found floating in Salmon Bay over the past few months, but we know that they've been waiting for any opportunity to march into the area with a scrub brush and a couple thousand gallons of bleach for years now. The drowinings are to the new restrictions what 911 is to Iraq; the one has nothing whatsoever to do with the other, but you've wanted to do this thing anyway so why not call it a reason.

Mayor Nickels' campaign to make local strip clubs no fun for anyone popped up on the local radar again yesterday. Turns out Georgetown residents aren't too happy with Nickels' desire to create a strip club zone that borders their neighborhood to the north.

Seattlest received word a few weeks back that at least eight employees - mostly wait-staff - at the Wallingford branch of popular Italian eatery Tutta Bella quit their jobs in a span of a few weeks, with some quitting in the dramatic walk-off/no-show fashion. Our source claimed on the condition of anonymity that the restaurant’s tip-pooling compensation plan short-changed the servers, allegedly giving most of the tips to four salaried managers. A week later, corroborative testimony came in from a second source, also on the condition of anonymity, who had also just quit the wait-staff position.

The Cougars play at USC this weekend. Wazzu has some talent on offense, and an experienced defense.

Popeye Banned From Coast Guard: The d'rigouritude of body art can trace its lineage back to your grandfather's classic navy tattoos. The anchor, the battleship, the waving flag and the skull and bones may not be stretched as tautly across Grandpap's chest as they once were, but they're still occasionally on display. However, they don't seem to stop him from shaking his head at your tribal bands and eyebrow piercings. New Coast Guard regulations restricting tattoos and other body modifications were reported today in the P-I to put an end to it all. No more sleeves, face tats or split tongues - Sorry, Seattle, the Coast Guard isn't for you. "The 1940s, party-hard sailor is not the image we're going for," Chief Petty Officer Keith Alholm was quoted as saying.

Our city's public transportation is well known to be crap. Some people want to fix it and some people think "public transportation" is an oxymoron. If we could just vote public trans into existence we'd all be beaming around the city by now; safely, quickly, cleanly, but we've gotten stuck a few times on the actual building part. You can't just decide that someone should do it. You have to actually build something.

What's it like being Seattlest?

We've always had a soft spot for Alaska Airlines. They seem slightly exotic and yet local all at the same time.