I hope that the new approach to homeless outreach in Seattle, if it comes to anything, is an improvement. I wish there was more of a solid direction from the mayor’s office. But maybe the relationship is so toxic that it’s better to have surrogates.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Great job, King County. We’re smashing all sorts of records for early voting. I don’t know if this presages higher turnout or if it will taper off. Maybe people are worried about the Post Office so they’re dropping their ballots in the boxes rather than the mail?

No matter what, please seal your ballot with a sponge and wash your hands.

Tim Eyman’s latest garbage car tabs initiative is unconstitutional. At this point he must know not to do a multiple issues initiative. Like have a lawyer look it over. Or don’t, since Eyman gets to keep fundraising on the same initiative and agencies get to keep their car tab money.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

King County is mailing ballots today. So you should get yours within a few days. Same give or take for the rest of the state. So if you don’t have a ballot by next week, you can bug your country official. In King County, you can drop it at one of these boxes. Or mail them.

Anyway, use a sponge instead of linking your envelope. And wash your hands right now.

I listened to the gubernatorial debate while doing dishes. Now, a day late, here’s my impressions.

Jay Inslee was a bit off his game on a few issues. Western State Hospital desertification in particular. But he was pretty good overall.

Culp was something else. From flirting with conspiracy theories about the wildfires to saying he would have sent the National Guard with guns to the East Precinct protest, Culp was scary. Please don’t vote for him.

And please do wash your hands right now.

Are you ready for debates tonight? Well tough shit, we’re going to have Vice Presidential and gubernatorial debates. I already know who I am voting for, but I will probably tune in. Will Culp manage to sell himself in any way, or if he comes across as awful as his policies.

But before the debates, in fact right now, you should go wash your hands.

It’s not medieval or early modern Europe. You can notice that the leader is sick. And that it’s still possibly deadly. Nobody wants the President to die,but jeez, he might be dying.

As of yesterday, Metro Transit and the Water Taxi are charging fares again. I know the agencies need money. But this, while the pandemic is still raging. I haven’t ridden the bus since the start of the pandemic. So I don’t know, are people now bunching up at the door?

Anyway, go wash your hands right now.

Boeing haven’t confirmed it yet, but it looks like they are going to move all 787 production out of Everett. These sorts of moves were probably inevitable as Boeing have shown that breaking the union is their biggest goal.

Still and all, if it isn’t replaced with something, it won’t be good. If not for the pandemic, I wouldn’t be too worried about a return of the will the last person to leave Seattle turn out the lights era. The regional economy is more diverse than it was then. But it is the pandemic. And there aren’t too many good jobs for people without a college education.

In any event, wash your hands right now.

I got the flu shot last week. Was into and out of the pharmacy faster than it has ever been before. And now I will be less likely to catch or pass on another deadly virus. Still have to deal with COVID-19.

So wash your hands right now.

I am very uncomfortable with Pac 12 football starting again. The expanded testing is good, but geez so many of the programs that have started playing games have met with pretty serious problems. I can’t imagine there not being a major outbreak in one, and probably several, of the teams.

I certainly don’t want to blame individual players who want to play. To lose a whole year is awful. But it’s got to be up to governments and institutions to step in for public health.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

The judicial norms breaking is leading nowhere good. But unilateral norms breaking seems bad too. So here is my proposal if the Republicans nominate and approve a Justice to replace RBG and Democrats get a trifecta.

First off, do the maximum judicial stuff. Add 100 seats to the Supreme Court. Strip the lower courts of power, replace them with a different system, and fill that with liberal judges. The whole 9 yards.

While this is happening, propose an amendment to the Constitution. Many states have commissions or other means of making judicial appointments fair. Pick the best one and adopt it. It also fires all judges except for cases they are working on. If Republicans want a cease fire, they can pass the amendment, if not at least there will be a liberal court for a while.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Anarchy. Anarchy anarchy anarchy. Anarchy. ANARCHY.

Wash your hands right now.

Congratulations to the Attorney General’s victory in the Post Office case. Long term, we’ll have to staff the Post Office with people who aren’t dedicated to destroying it.

Anyway, wash your hands right now.

Are you surviving the smoke? It’s pretty gross. I live in the urban core, and according to Google Maps the farthest building I could see from my window is less than half a mile. And even that is an improvement from earlier in the week.

If you have to work outside, or go outside for any reason, I feel for you. Gross, gross, gross.

And, you still have to wash your hands. So wash your hands right now.