You should realize that many not rich Seattle residents opposed this tax because we have supported plenty of taxes in the past and they have been mismanaged as fuck. Durkan & co. need to put forth an actual plan FIRST and then we’ll talk money.

Spicy beef...hmmm....now I want some grungy fake Chinese food. You know what I’m talkin bout.

How I met you and your husband numerous times but don’t remember.

This. I’m old enough to remember that until 1969, the men arrested in police nuisance raids of gay bars would have their names published in the daily newspaper, often resulting in losing jobs. Rogers wasn’t rejecting him - he was looking out for him (and the show). Also worth noting that the marriage-for-appearances…

THIS. This article perfectly encapsulates why I can’t stand Rich’s articles.

Yes. I think middle-aged people (like me) may have a better perspective on what things were really like in the ’60s and ’70s. If it got out that a gay man was working on a children’s show, that would have been a huge scandal and there’s no doubt the show would have been shut down immediately. To Rogers, the show was a…

I’ll take a bucket, please.

I have seen a couple of sites trying to make a fuss out of this and say that homophobia was some sort of skeleton in Fred Rogers’ closet. But that is really judging people of half a century ago by the morality of today. It is amazing that Clemmons wasn’t fired. Gay people (especially men) around children was regarded…

Yeah, remember how accusing someone of being a communist would cause them to lose their job in entertainment and commit suicide just ten years earlier than this?

But still, it illustrates the finite nature of Mr. Rogers’s ideals. “I like you just the way you are,” he often said, but in the case of Clemmons there was a caveat: “...I just need you to show less of the way you are.” This information through the lens of contemporary culture, in which an employer legislating what…

I think we have a problem today where we too often take the lens of our current sensibilities and cultural landscape and then look back on the past, judging it from our perspective alone.

My takeaway from his work is “Always be curious, and try new shit out.” RIP.

I’m not crying, you’re crying.

Yes.

On the show, he would say, “I love you just the way you are.” One day I said, “Fred, were you talking to me?” And he looked at me and he said, “Yes, I’ve been talking to you for two years and you finally heard me today.” And I just collapsed into his arms. I started crying. That’s when I knew I loved him.

Also, I love how she says “so your negative comments are not going to influence my choices - actual research and educating myself will”

Please educate yourself on the issue of Catalonia, there is no independence to be discussed, plain and simple, you seem to know very little about Spain and how Catalonia is one of 17 autonomous regions, this is not Madrid against Catalonia, this is 16 autonomous regions abiding the laws of the Spanish Constitution and…

Creepy old man? yes. Moron? Hardly

Clintons, you guys have a nice house in Westchester and every time you guys step out of it you make America sad. You guys are done, please just stay at home forever. For the good of the nation.

I want to know what happened to the person who recommended this sentence, too. Persky was following the recommendation of some agency when he imposed this sentence. Persky had the discretion to reject the recommendation, and should have, and so I am happy with the recall. But if some agency person is running around…