Next Week, Condi Rice Strangles A Basset Hound

Later, after I post my compelling blurb on the dysfunctionality of constant news coverage, I may just let these items slide.

The arrest of top Bush domestic policy advisor Claude Allen for ripping off more than $5000 from a series of return items schemes at Target (Target!) has, in a quiet way, actually topped Dickey Cheney's 28 gauge Death With Dignity initiative. (See Standard Paragraph.) There is serious danger for the White House here because this is the kind of petty theft everyone understands.

Meanwhile, "Don't Not Be Evil" Google, fresh from vast new programs to destroy human independence by wiping out even the possibility of privacy, moves into my neighborhood, simply to irritate me. Note that this move is gleefully praised by the greedhead developer who turned one of the most creative neighborhoods in Seattle into an outdoor notions mall, full of callow application goons who think art is that indefinable something that makes shopping fun.
One of the last actual Fremont places, a stalwart hippie-chick organic bakery, just folded when their rent was TRIPLED.

Piss off Google. Off to Bellevue with you ( I-90 east until you smell the sulfur of the never-ending fire, take the exit, left at the three-headed dog. Ask for Virgil.) The Eastside is zoned for Commercial Office U-E (Unspeakably Evil). Seattle has only a limited amount of Commerical Office DD zoning (Dangerously Deluded), and that's mostly taken up by the Discovery Institute, and of course the Sonics.

Also Forbes has just published this handy list, presumably for the revolution.