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The Tacoma News Tribune had their big Seattle cruise season preview a few weeks ago: 191 cruise ship calls, 3,000 busloads of passengers from the airport to the cruise terminals, 14,082 cruise industry jobs created in 2005, 1 article we couldn’t get completely through. Harpers index it ain’t. Unless this is it, we’re still waiting for the Seattle dailies to publish their yearly love poems to the cruise industry.

In a hallway, at about 7:30am. Witnesses say they heard three shots. Police caught the suspected shooter two hours later, about a quarter of a mile away. The dead student's name hasn't been released, and it's unclear what the shooter's motive is, or if the shooter is a student there as well.

--A P-I editorial targets what may be the state's last living Republican (via Northwest Progressive Institute)

Seattlest finds the fact that a team of rowers from the Northwest have almost completed a trans-Atlantic crossing very cool, despite a couple of things, but first, it's cool. It seems like a truly difficult endeavor and the bigness of the Atlantic (big waves, big distance, big cold, etc) and the smallness of a rowable boat are somehow attractive to us. It does smell a little like rich guys ballooning around the world in search of faux adventure at any price, but the guys aren't rich and they had to raise a lot of money to get their boat from the Sound to the East Coast. And the lack of technology is also double-sided: It's cool, yeah, that the strength of their biceps is propelling them across such a large body of water, but at the same time...it's a pretty large artificial handicap. We have engines now, or, if that's too high tech for you, sails. You can't get much more basic then rowing unless you want to Thor Heyerdahl it and depend only on buoyancy and the currents.

-Is there a haze to the air today? A certain weight suspended in the atmosphere? Have you noticed anyone discreetly masking a shotgun blast to the face? Is it... sniff sniff... Cheney!