"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. more ›

LOCAL AUTHOR, LOCAL AUTHOR: Clear Cut Press presents two of its novelists: Matt Briggs' Shoot The Buffalo is about a boy growing up in Snoqualmie during the '70s. Stacey Levine's Frances Johnson, set in a small town in Florida, details the random choices made by the eponymous Ms. Johnson. more ›

We’ve all had a great deal of fun watching this wacky governor’s race. First there were the recounts (insert sound of slide whistle), then there were the found ballots (insert sound of clown laughing), then there were the list of felons and dead individuals who voted (insert sound of pie hitting someone in the face), and now we have the death threats (insert sound of awkward silence)…Ahem, will this fun ever end? more ›