I know a few of my readers will appreciate the dark humor of this: You remember the Sally Fields ga-ga Academy Award speech: “You love me; you really, really love me.” Well, Steve Rosen has done the reverse and managed to lump me together with M.J. Rosenberg and Justin Raimondo as “three who hate” his blog.  That’s probably the only time in each of our lives we’ll be mentioned in the same sentence, since we’re not exactly ...

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Tonight, I heard Rabbi David Rosen speak at a remarkable conference, Religions as Promoters of Human Rights and Peace (pdf), organized by the Jewish Studies program at the University of Washington.  He is the director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee and unlike David Harris and the rest of the AJC crowd, Rabbi Rosen is a truly humane, forward-thinking individual who seems unprepared to blame any particular religion or ethnic group for all ...

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Breaking news this afternoon from the heart of the Inland Empire: John Driscoll, the Democratic challenger in the 6th Legislative District, has prevailed over incumbent Republican John Ahern, a just completed recount shows. Here's the official announcement from the Auditor:The Spokane County Elections Department has completed the mandatory hand recount of ballots in the 6th Legislative District race between John Driscoll and John Ahern.The total number of ballots counted, 75,947, was the same as in ...

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Last Tuesday (Nov. 25), I ran a piece about the NBA’s television ratings, wherein I questioned the merits of the previously linked Nielsen story which raved about improved NBA ratings.My quibble was in regard to the way in which the data was presented. Rather than list all the teams’ ratings, it only listed the top ten, a completely flawed methodology. As I argued last week, how can you say the league’s ratings are improved when ...

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"Sound Transit HQ," by Seattlest Flickr contributor romulusnr We love the bus. We ride it whenever we can. We try to convince our friends, family, and neighbors to ride the bus. We even offered sexual favors to our girlfriend if she would start riding the 41 from her Northgate crib to her downtown office. (She declined; we broke up. Draw your own conclusions.) Last night, the P-I ran a story about Sound Transit having problems accurately determining ...

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