crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
According to estimates, Goldman Sachs will set aside $21.9 billion for bonuses this year. In an interview with London’s Sunday Times, Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein said that the firm is “doing God’s work.” The liberal media excoriated Blankfein for this remark. Such critics have never studied scripture. This is hardly surpr (Read More)
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I hate everything gay! From experience, not prejudice! From the 25 year old faggot that hit on me when I was a teenager, to my closeted friends, who back stab, and plot, to the constant media attention, to the disgusting styles, music, lisps. The power and control over popular culture, and degrading of straight people (Read More)
crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
The Seattle Channel, the city-run TV station on cable 21 that carries live City Council meetings during the day and a mixture of public TV-style programming the rest of the time, is launching an ambitious live public affairs broadcast today from Town Hall. At the same time, the station — typically shielded from market force (Read More)
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This year has been tough all over for lovers of words on paper. In Seattle, venerable Elliott Bay Book Company totters on the brink, Capitol Hill mainstay Bailey/Coy has announced it's closing, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer print edition is kaput. It's been a tough year for publishers, booksellers, newspapers, writers, (Read More)
crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
I like writing for Crosscut, and I get a lot out of reading it. It's a welcome new publication for folks like me who like to explore, enjoy following an unknown path, and are just plain terminally curious. It's worth your attention, and it depends on your financial support.Crosscut can be serious, satirical, or good for a c (Read More)
crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
Seattle politics is at a fascinating, generational inflection point. Looked at one way, the body politic has achieved a kind of detente, with formerly feuding interest groups manacled together by Mayor Greg Nickels' muscular and artful fusionism. The disarray after the bruising Commons wars and the fall of Mayor Paul Schell (Read More)
OMNIVORACIOUS:
New York Times:Sunday Book Review cover: Leon Wieseltier on Why Are Jews Liberals? by Norman Podhoretz: "Norman Podhoretz loves his people and loves his country, and I salutehim for it, since I love the same people and the same country. But thisis a dreary book. Its author has a completely axiomatic mind that isquite conte (Read More)
OMNIVORACIOUS:
As I've been following in the last couple of Old Media Mondays, Lorrie Moore's new novel, A Gate at the Stairs, is getting some of the most interesting--and mostly glowing--reviews of the year. It makes sense: she's a major American writer who hasn't published a new book in 11 years, and a new novel in 15. And A Gate at the (Read More)
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I believe it took ten weeks for 2 reasons . One that they were probaly waiting for the final results of the autopsy and two katherine jackson is a Jehovahs witness .Alot of the things the family wanted to do with the body were completely against her beilefs . And its also very hard for her . She has to raise paris , prince, (Read More)
OMNIVORACIOUS:
It's rare that a rave review leads immediately to a spat between writer and author, but as anyone knows, if you hear twenty good things about yourself and one bad, you're going to focus on the bad. (Although, as the following shows, this is not only question of hurt feelings.) Soon after Dan Baum's review of Rebecca Solnit' (Read More)
crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
A third of a million acres of new park and wilderness lands could be added to North Cascades National Park if a new citizen-directed campaign kicked off this spring is successful. Washington Pass and Snowy Lakes are two of the better known beauty spots some say should be added to the national park.The initiative is called t (Read More)
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Jan!I hear what you are saying and believe me, you're not the only one feeling that way about the direction country music is heading. Ms. Naomi even mentioned it in a blog published on CMT regarding CYD on June 17th. I'm also thinking that it's odd how there seems to be so little publicity around the show, especially cons (Read More)
Changing Way:
Zoo New England is the private, non-profit organization that operates Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. We have a family membership: a good deal, since we probably average a visit a month to the FPZ, which is only about 20 minutes drive from our house.I’ve intended for a while to do a ser (Read More)
crosscut.com : Crosscurrent:
Canadians love his new book, set on their southern border, and readers in the Pacific Northwest are discovering Olympia writer Jim Lynch, who just could be the best new novelist in the region since David Guterson rolled out Snow Falling on Cedars in 1995. Lynch is an unassuming former newspaper reporter who has set his firs (Read More)