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The Seattle Times has taken up the cause of legalizing marijuana. First, in its own editorial : Marijuana should be legalized, regulated a...

It's one thing to believe stupid things when you're young. It's another to publish them for all the world to see. It's ano...

"I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER ‘KING’ WINS ONE" D...

Daniel Mallory in high dudgeon, takes on the Onion's AV Club: Nominally non-satirical, the section aims to commune with Onion readers, ...

In the Olympia School District, we won't be in school on Tuesday when President Obama delivers a speech to the nation's students. Ne...

Introductory phrase, followed by relevant link. Blockquoted, thoughtfully chosen excerpt, highlighting the article's main argument, per...

Son: "Daddy's home!" Mom: "Thank goodness. I thought he had died at work again."

On the way to giving (well-deserved) kudos to Olympia High School for its production of Bye Bye Birdie, Misha Berson of the Seattle Times sl...

The situation : New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has admitted to using a paragraph virtually word-for-word from a prominent liberal bl...

1. At least if you're one of an embarrassed batch of J-school grads : When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic bu...

Update: Well, gee, thanks, ESPN, for letting other websites embed your videos for mere moments. LeBron James, messiah at 24. (Jesus at lea...

Apparently my education blog got noticed by a Spokane TV station. That's right: the DNR, a circuit-driving dentist, Gene Simmons, and...

The newspaper hits just keep coming. Craig Smith, a.k.a., Sideline Smitty, has been cut from the Seattle Times. After 32 years at The Times ...

A little while ago I mentioned that Popular Mechanics and Popular Science are now available through Google. (The weird images posted her...

Way, way, way cool. You'll build your next house out of molasses! Update: Other magazines, too, like Popular Science, are also availabl...

Clay Shirky offers no eulogy for the Tribune Co., which today announced bankruptcy. Instead, he shovels up a pile of told-you-so. So I'...

Going straight to the heart of suburbia, Obama ends his most recent speech by saying "Thanks for listening."

1. The post-NBCT letdown, immune-system-wise, has brought a mild cold, my first of the year. Last night I tossed and turned, waking at 2:00...

When blogging burst into public consciousness--see a sample timeline here --it promised to revolutionize everything. To paraphrase O Brothe...

Extempers have relied on the Christian Science Monitor for years. No other citation carries so much weight with such panache. The CSM, tho...