The drawbridge across the Seattle Ship Canal in my old neighborhood now has an artist in residence, who’s blogging her experience at the Bridge Report. I used to live a few blocks northeast of the Fremont Bridge and experienced it as a car and bus passenger, on foot, and on my bike.
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Op-Ed Columnist – The Big Hate – NYTimes.com Paul Krugman's column on right-wing hysteria now that another Democrat is President, just like when Clinton was in the White House (tags: wingnut hysteria) How on-target was Homeland Security's right-wing extremism bulletin? Very | Crooks and Liars (tags: wingnut)
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3 young men, ages 14 and 15, tear it up on “O Solo Mio” on an Italian Idol-type program. Can you even sing like that without hurting yourself before your third decade? However, they’re miked, so not having to get the sound out the old-fashioned way over the studio orchestra (who aren’t that well rehearsed, frankly). One of them may technically be a baritone, all of them may be destined for either the opera, or some kind of romantic pop-idol musical limbo now inhabited by Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/FqUkUjeF4-c" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /] A tip of the…
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When I lived in Seattle, it was always fun to go down to Pike Place and watch tourists dodge flying salmon. The one guy that called out instructions like an air-traffic controller had a voice like ball bearings in a bucket. At work a few years ago, we threw plushy fish around after a team leader got ahold of the FiSH! corporate morale-boosting book. That whole idea of “play at work, work becomes play, be totally in the moment with your customer and throw a fish at them accurately” went away after that particular team leader or VP moved on.…
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I’m currently watching Dave Niewart’s appearance on Anderson Cooper, where he’s talking about the phenomenon of the Lone Wolf gunman/terrorist. It seems that their panic at finding themselves in a country led by a black Democrat leads to an increase in violent incidents like the shooting at the Holocaust Museum. I’m currently gathering links to “wingnut hysteria” on del.icio.us, because I’m thinking of listing pairs of words that describe extremists at both ends of the religio-political spectrum.