So, Boeing is offering a 35% raise and more money for their 401k. Not the 40% and a defined benefit for retirement. Better than the earlier offer that was rejected, but still not everything they asked for. It’s tough not to compare it to the gold parachute the bosses who actually harmed the company got.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
The Onion: Mayor explains why he changed city named after slave-owning founder to Salami Town
Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
Your ballot should have been mailed out recently. If you haven’t received it yet, you should soon. Have them postmarked or dropped off by November 5. But how are you going to vote? Here are some guides.
– Fuse has really stepped up in recent years with an explicitly progressive voter guide for the whole state.
– If you’ve in Seattle, The Stranger has been the gold standard for decades.
– The Labor Council has links to various local endorsements.
– The Sierra Club has endorsements if you want to look from an environmental perspective.
– Planned Parenthood and Pro Choice Washington have the endorsements to best protect reproductive freedom.
– As for me, I say vote for the Democrat if it’s them versus a Republican, and no on the statewide initiatives. There are a few races where both candidates are Democrats, but the more progressive candidates is pretty obvious.
The bus route for my commute goes by a high school a few stops ahead of mine. Depending on what after school events are going on, it can be pretty crowded. Because I’m in my 40″s, I generally don’t interact with them much. Anyway, it was standing room for me, and one of the kids offered me their seat.
At first, I thought it was a signpost of aging that I hadn’t prepared for. But the more I think about it, the cooler I think it was. When I was that age, I don’t think I would have given up a seat for someone my age unless they obviously needed it.
And the bus is a reflection of the larger society. So it is neat to see teens going out of their way to be polite, beyond what was the norm 20+ years ago. This has been, Carl overextrapolated from one interaction on public transportation.
With three weeks to Election Day, Washington state ballots are about to drop. Let’s talk about it! Please join us tonight for some politics and a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
Happy Indigenous People’s Day. I usually don’t post on holidays, but I want to note that KEXP is doing Indigenous People’s Day programming all day and it has been really great so far.
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
LegalEagle: Alex Jones’s entire empire is being sold off
Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:
John Oliver: Traffic stops
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
– J Line J Line J Line. I was fairly skeptical about Rapid Ride when it was first proposed, and now I get super excited about every announcement.
– We’re going to keep raiding Jumpstart.
– But don’t worry, there’s always money for cops.
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
I have linked to other people talking about the new G Line. But like a fool, I had not taken it yet. Now that I have, I think it’s neat. It’s tough to do east-west connections within Seattle. And man does it. I took it at rush hour and it seems like it could add more people comfortably.
Also, I have never rode some of the Rapid Ride lines outside of the city, so forgive me if this is old hat there, but I can’t recall a bus with doors on either side depending on the stop. Obviously that’s how light rail and the streetcar work, but just adding it to a bus feels innovative.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Please join us tonight for some political punditry and electoral prognostication over a pint at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. The election is just 27 days away. Let’s talk about it.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us on the back patio. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
New park! New park. New park. Look at the Overlook Walk. What a great addition to Downtown Seattle. The replacement for the Viaduct is too road centric, so it’s nice to see some real pedestrian infrastructure. It’s also good to connect the market with the waterfront in a more accessible way. My most serious injury in my life was on the hill climb and it must be worse for people in wheelchairs or the elderly.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Michael Kosta: Jelani Cobb on the history of the Electoral College & a healthy journalism diet
The New Yorker: Zooey Zephyr’s defense of trans lives in a deep-red state
Electile Dysfunction 2024:
John Oliver: Federal courts
LegalEagle: Eric Adams’s ridiculous corruption
Cult of The Felon Von Shitzenpantz:
Vox: Can clean energy handle the AI boom?
Stephen: Chris Wallace on the Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
– I understand that there’s a process. But geez Tacoma Police Department, just rip off the bandaid. The whole thing is going to come out.
– Part of me wishes I wasn’t the type of person who has zero sympathy for January 6 people waiving a shotgun. I bet your little 8 Chan friends were very impressed. But they have already moved on.
– My elderly father had dementia, anger issues — and many guns
– What is the value of the Seattle Channel?
– Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
Sometimes it will be Tuesday night, and I won’t know what to write about. And then, like a beam of light it hits me. Headlights, too bright, at the bus stop.
Seriously, I was only there for a few minutes, thanks One Bus Away, but I had to look that way to check on the bus and it was blinding. Just terrible. I assume it was a delivery driver or an Uber, because who else is parked at the corner with their lights on. Seattle should regulate the cars that are allowed to drive and the US government should make it so normal cars can’t be that bright.
I remember these jerks driving behind me with lights that bright before I got rid of my car. But I would have hoped not to have to deal with it on the bus.
Anyway, please wash your hands right now and get vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.
We will be watching the V.P. debate tonight at the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally. Please join us for a debate, conversation, and good cheer over a drink.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. We normally meet at 8:00p.m., but the debate starts at 6:00 p.m., so we will get together in the back room then. Note that the audio might be difficult to hear. Bring earbuds or headphones and a streaming device (phone or tablet) if you want to hear every word. There is free Wi-Fi in the bar.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
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