The Vig

This cold has been a tough thing to shake.  I have a natural aversion to doctors and will generally avoid them at all costs.  It wasn’t until Thursday morning that I finally decided I’d had enough.
I made the trek from the office to the immediate care office out at Gateway.  I figured I would be [...]

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I’m on the mobile phone, so apologies for misspellings and lack-o-links…
After much speculation over the last few days, Beltway Fred Thompson has finally pulled the plug on his candidacy. No doubt Coyote at NWRepublican is in mourning. Thompson should have won the nomination easily. He had the best of the establishment advisors around him and [...]

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The Washington Democrats finally have their caucus finder website up and running.  It is mind-numbingly easy to use.  And now I know where I’ll be the afternoon of February 9th.  It should make for some fun moblogging, if they let me take my cell phone inside.
In other news, the Obama campaign opens their Washington office [...]

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I added a plug-in to my blog software which finally allows me to blog from my cell phone. We’ll see how this goes.
The Hawks are currently down 2-0 to the rival Seattle Thunderbirds halfway through the first period. As bad as things look now, it’s not nearly as bad as Katie Harmon’s national anthem. If [...]

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Only in the Couv, I guess.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Bieber said the officer and a Top Choice employee had argued over a meat order in the store and then went outside. The officer drew his gun because he felt threatened, but it wasn’t clear why he felt that way, Bieber said.
Bieber said he didn’t know whether [...]

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I heard about the collision on Interstate while listening to the Rick Emerson Show today. Rick immediately recognized this would be the incident the local media would seize upon to finally have some sort of fake tee-vee discussion. And with November sweeps just around the corner, how will they possibly resist? He [...]

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Check out Willamette Week or the Merc of you want a full review of the Wilco show.  It goes without saying it was awesome.  Sharing “On and On and On” with Betty With Sunglasses via the cellular telephone was a personal highlight.
The other highlight occured just prior to “Walken”.  Jeff Tweedy, who was in a [...]

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