I'm more concerned about NFL broadcast rules that prohibit broadcasting a second game when the local team plays at home. I miss out on a lot of good games, especially in the past couple of years, and often simply turn the TV off and hope for a good night game on NBC.

Pathetic. And they're going to turn themselves inside out tonight to pay tribute like she was Louis Pasteur or something.

Let me guess - drugs forced their way into her body without her knowledge or consent. Drugs murdered her.

What about that British chick who drank herself to death a couple months back? She had pipes too in her day.

But, sadly, given the simpleminded, petty society we live in, crocodile tears over a celebrity to whom we haven't given a single thought in fifteen years, and who happens to be black, gets fully credited as a white schmuck's protestation to the world that they're not a racist. Therefore, we all have to pretend that this is some great loss.

Seattle City Light has been doing this for years - bombarding everyone with conservation mandates and programs, then complaining that they need to raise rates because their revenue is dropping due to reduced demand.

Not paying the gas tax is supposed to be a benefit of buying these vehicles. Simple economics dictates that gas tax savings is figured into how much a person is willing to pay for an electric and how much a manufacturer can charge for one. So much for the free market.

And I find the hybrid exclusion amusing - they have no problem pummeling small, out of state companies that make electrics, but no way in the world do these chickenhawks try to take a whack at GM or Toyota. Cowards.

If I owned another club in the area, I wouldn't be thrilled at the lack of identification. However, it can almost be assumed that the violence and persons involved spanned more than one club through the course of the evening.

And the nature of these regular reports speaks for itself as to the conduct, character and demographic of these clubs. This is why the vast majority of people are frustrated but not outraged - this isn't going to happen at a watering hole they're likely to patronize.

Now the first time a stray bullet hits a passing motorist or goes through a nearby apartment window, it'll be a different story.

Well, that's certainly one way to up the number of abortions. I thought that it was something of an unwritten priority to get those numbers down, not push them up.

A lifetime of looking over your shoulder as your reward for doing the right thing, or a couple hours of time, a few bucks and a brief moral sting that will go away? That's the choice this leaves for a woman to make.

Anything short of mandating zero access to such records will create doubts in the minds of parents that the deliberately complex, opt-in bureaucracy of process that might provide some protection now will be maintained in the future without erosion. All it will take is some stupid news story involving a child and our worthless legislators will simply nullify all protections. That may or may not happen but, referring to the paragraph above in this context, why take a chance?

Don't you have a gun that needs to be cleaned?

F--k this. It's been a nightmare because of news reports like we see here and elsewhere. From the instant this crime commenced, emergency services had exactly five seconds to get to the scene, kick down the door and stop it from happening. Period.

Hint: the opportunity to prevent this from happening expired at some point before the judge ordered the psychological examination of Powell LAST WEEK. For the spread-legged local media whores, KOMO included, to even remotely HINT that emergency responders, 911 dispatchers or anyone else who dealt with this horrible event could have done ANYTHING to prevent it is "journalism" at its absolute lowest.

Local media here have crossed the line now, and have put the yellowest of journalists to shame. They have proved beyond all reasonable doubt that their only motivation anymore in reporting on this is profit for their shareholders. They're not journalists. They're not even human.

I think it's wonderful that animal authorities have arranged to go to this effort to find homes for these little ones. It's a refreshing demonstration of high human values that are getting harder and harder to find.

I'd take an armload myself but this operation here is run by felines. I may have said too much already. Uh-oh - one just woke up...

Well, McGinn is pistol-whipping citizens out of $1.6 mil to hand over to artists, so you come out seven hundred grand ahead in this exchange of violent crimes. What's your complaint?

You have to admire the parents who are understandably outraged but are expressing that in a reasonable manner. I hope that the school district does not interpret that as any kind of acquiescence to anything short of establishing full accountability and prosecutions of those responsible - directly or indirectly, or there could very well be real trouble.