It's rainy which means it's fall, which means there's an election coming, which means that Seattle is all bound up in a transportation quagmire, which means it's time to devote millions of words to the problem and then eventually do nothing. A couple ten thousand of those millions of words were published this weekend in response to the Roads and Transit transportation package that we'll vote on in November. Here is Walt Crowley in the......

We had a little haus-warming party Friday to celebrate our new East Ballard digs. We've been enjoying our new neighborhood, meeting new human and feline neighbors during our walks, discovering its little nooks, and enjoying all of the old pickup trucks that seem to be one of its characteristics. We hope to start boring you with our fabricated embellished observations soon. At some point during our proceedings on Friday, local historian and awesome guy, Walt......

--Lt. Watada's court martial ended in mistrial today. --Capitol Hill Seattle Blog got outed by the "MSM" recently. --Watch in amazement as this hand fiddles with the Sonics. Meanwhile a NASCAR track will appear as if by magic. --Historylink's President, historian Walt Crowley, is losing his voice to cancer. --The Sightline Institute links to a few articles on the metro Kyoto participants. --Ken Jennings explores the overlap between aviation and scatology. --Biznik's name gets......

--After one city council member's aide was killed by a car while crossing the street, and another's stepson was seriously hurt in a similar accident, you'd better believe the council's ready to take the most decisive action they can. That's right--city charter be damned--they're going to "approve a resolution creating a pedestrian master plan and a city-appointed advisory group to develop it." Ugh. --Today at 10am, on KUOW, former TV commentator Walt Crowley says his......

We couldn't help but notice that maitre d' Mikel Kanter from Vancouver's Elixir bistro is telling tourists an awfully familiar story: He also offered that the term "Skid Row" was coined just outside the window for the logging skids that led to the water in earlier times. Skid Row, of course, became a term for the down and out, and there's nothing down and out about Vancouver these days. Wait a minute. Skid Row? Doesn't......

Initiatives, they are the voice of the people-- which is a really sad thought. Sure, Tim Eyman may have ruined everything in this state with his grand plan to fix local government and buy as much stuff as possible using his supporters' money; however, he is not behind the latest effort to get tax reform on the ballot. Initiative 912 would repeal the 9 cent per gallon tax passed by the state legislature. The money......