Dennis McLerran, head of the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency is "pissed." Governor Schwarzenegger is suing federal regulators. According to more than 500 news articles, The Environmental Protection Agency denied California’s bill to place limitations on vehicle emissions, which would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 30 percent in the next 10 years. McLerran claims in a Seattle Times article the EPA’s decision is purely political, not factual. Washington was one of the 18 states that......

The unfortunately named Grand Ole Party opened for Rilo Kiley Saturday night to an audience presumably not too familiar with their work. GOP have a strong, simple, raw kind of sound, not unlike White Stripes or Sweet 75, kind of directionless and inert, but impressive and energetic nonetheless. They ended the set with the first song on Humanimals, "Look Out Young Son," which after a couple of listens sounds like the strongest effort on the......

"I voted for Dino Rossi" is not what you say when you are dating a hard-left politics dork. Seattlest once learned this the hard way. The revelation sparked an argument. We lost. For months, we spent lonely nights reading Lewis Lapham, trying to cure our moderate streak. But, with the Democrats in gridlock over the Viaduct issue, we feel vindicated. The internecine squabbling that's led us to a point where we're having a meaningless advisory......

Wednesday, September 20 >>>Town Hall, 7:30pm. James Fallows, correspondent for The Atlantic, leads the congregation in a hymn to the virtues of foresight. Fallows is flogging his book, Blind into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq, and would like you to know it didn't have to be like this. We can't wait for Tone-Deaf into Tehran. $5 at the door. >>>University Bookstore, 7:00pm. Ah, chess. We knew there was some reason besides the coup that......

If you ever move to Spokane, meet the right people, say the right things, and end up becoming mayor of that town, it may be not be a good idea to spend your free time soliciting young men in gay chat rooms and offering them civic jobs. Stick to ribbon cuttings at the zoo and having people let you win the Bloomsday Run. Soon-to-be-former Mayor Jim West, a one time state senator who voted against......

Celebrities, they are good looking, rich, and if you believe what you read in US Weekly, are just like us (they check their mail). More and more, however, celebrities are also making our laws. Why vote for Stuffed Shirt McPolicy when you can vote for karate-chopping superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger? People like voting for faces they recognize; our own city council has former Seattle Times columnist Jean Godden and former TV reporter Jim Compton. Here......

Not that we don't have our share of gubanatorial insanity here in Washington, but at least we're not California. You may remember that they elected the Terminator as their governor in a special recall election. Yes, it's still funny and getting funnier every day. We only wish that Seattlest was around in 2003 so we could legitamately say, "We told you so," now. The excuse we're using for this little round of jeering is the......