Follow King County Commissioner Dow Constantine, who frequently messages (email, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to alert Seattleites on local hazards (flooding, landslides and wildfires). Both the County and City track landslide and stream conditions and participate in disaster drills such as Cascadia Rising. If you haven’t…

So sorry for this cat. It’s bad enough to sit on Drumpf’s head all day, but then ham falls on his face. Tragic.

Here’s a missed opportunity for a really important point: the reason we can buy sandwiches for $4, the reason that we can acquire any goods or services at an affordable price, is that we’re part of a huge, interdependent web of human creativity, the value of which we rarely appreciate. Some examples include: mothers…

If you embrace Neoliberal Economics (control of economic factors is shifted from the public sector to the private sector) and think of humans merely as consumers in systems that are measured and quantified, it makes sense to think of a wife as the Chief Operating Officer in your Familial Corporation (as so entitled to…

Less funny: It's affecting human males too: http://who.int/ceh/capacity/m…

Fundamental Attribution Error: My mistakes are honest, but your mistakes are because you're malicious, lazy, stupid and generally of bad character. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/real-men-…

Also, we don't generally get to publically mourn the loss of our fur children with a newspaper obituary and a funeral, but we can grieve on Facebook.

So, the purple wedding. How did it happen? How did Joffrey get poisoned; who did it? Readers of the books might already be in the know, but while the show hasn't outright told us who the culprit is, we all watched the poisoning happen. Most of us didn't realize it, though—but you can catch it if you look closely.

Yesterday someone was filming a rap video at 23rd & Jackson. We still got it goin' on. Or something.

Sure, sure, everyone needs basic life skills. But if you're going to include it as part of a standard citizen's curriculum, call it something interesting like Life Hacking. A dull name like Home Ec will be certain death to a new education movement.

I sense we're missing an opportunity. Rather than justifying why women change their appearance, we don't we tell men that they'd look better if they painted their faces? Can you imagine if every woman hollered back to catcallers 'Yeah baby, you'd look great too in a little makeup!" Just sayin' <ahem>

Novels and other media aside, one of the reasons that we don't know more is that people decided not to talk to their families about their war experiences (too grim and unimaginable to convey to non-combatants), that people decided not to talk about The Great Influenza that ended the war (also grim and filled with…

Indeed. When I last visited Mt. Vernon in the 1980's, a Russian speaking friend and I came upon some Russian tourists who were trying to decipher the informational sign on one of the 'slave quarters'. I will never forget the look of horror on the tourists' faces as they learned for the first time that the Washingtons…

With all the Pink Washing, how can people be unaware that MOST OF THE TIME the nipples go during a mastectomy? Would you want to leave behind potential seeds for recurrence? Never mind that for breasts larger than a B Cup there's practically no chance that you'd be able to save the blood vessels and nerves that supply…

I've lived in the South, so I'll translate. It's Country Folks and City People. It only seems related to ethnicity (race? Give me a break, we Mericans are more mud-blooded than nearly any other country on the planet) since the over six million African Americans who migrated from the South to the North and West (1910…