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September 3, 2008

There has been several flavors of WTF news from all over today. You have your tragic WTF news, the duh WTF news, and the just truly head-scratching WTF news. Behold: WTF Skagit County?!?WTF King County?!?WTF John McCain?!?Photo Courtesy of the AP. John McCain meets the teen father-to-be of Vice Presidential Pick Sarah Palin's grandchild.......

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June 6, 2008

Photos Courtesy of the AP The Amanda Knox case, similar to Hillary Clinton's campaign for the Democratic nomination, seems to be never-ending. It boggles the mind how Knox still sits uncharged in an Italian jail while evidence continues to build that she is likely innocent. Just like the Hillary campaign, the Italian police seem to be continuously denying the most recent evidence and plodding on the course they planned to take all along: Hillary......

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June 5, 2008

Our Boston siblings brought our attention to yet another oddity in the Seattle Sonics saga. From our own paper, mind you: "For months, a Boston-area woman thought she was dating a Sonics front-office employee and former NBA player named Jeff Turner, a handsome, 6-foot-8 40-something who was polite, compassionate and respectful." But, of course, it was a flim flam and the aptly named Ronnie Craven was revealed to be neither Jeff Turner nor a......

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June 2, 2008

Despite the fact that we're only two days into June, the month has not been kind to the local stripping industry or its clients. Last night, a group of guys in Magnolia hoping to get a private strip show got a lot more than they bargained for. They arranged for an exotic dancer to come and perform at their residence, but the dancer showed up with bodyguards and an unsexy mission: the guys were......

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May 19, 2008

Avenue Q is going to be hitting the Paramount this summer, and word on the street is that the banner they'll be hanging on the theater is simply scandalous. According to the press release: Seattle Theatre Group unveils most controversial banner to date at 1:00 PM on the east facing exterior of The Paramount Theatre. Be the first to see Lucy, star of Broadway's Avenue Q, in all her provocative glory. "This is the......

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April 1, 2008

It has just not been Jim McDermott's week. First, the story breaks that he unintentionally toured Baghdad on Saddam's dime. Now, he has been ordered to a pay a political rival's legal fees. The legal squabble between House Minority Leader John Boehner and McDermott has lasted a decade and stems from a clandestinely taped telephone conversation that was leaked to the press. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that McDermott acted improperly when he......

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December 3, 2007

No. But that doesn't make this factoid from a political campaign article in today's P-I any less disturbing: "If it's OK to notify a political campaign about this guy, what about the neighbors he lived near for months?" said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, pointing out that [Mitt] Romney's aides were warned about [Daniel Thomas] Tavares's presence here during the candidate's recent campaign swing through Seattle, though Troyer's own office......

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