1) KOMO TV exposes drinking on the job by some employees on the 520 bridge project

2) Olympic athlete Lolo Jones says she's saving her virginity for her future husband (and that it's the hardest thing she's ever done).

I saw this headline in the News Tribune today about a state worker being arrested for stealing and using food stamps. It got me thinking about how former Speaker of the House, now Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is so quick to talk about the multiplier effect of using food stamps and how it's a "job creator" and how it's possibly the best stimulus program the economy could get.

If true, shouldn't this alleged thief be hailed as a hero?

The Seattle PI blog had a write-up about a new garment for UW fans... a onesie... for adults.

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While I was impressed with the entrepreneurial spirit of these students, I found the photos, well, embarrassing. For some reason, female students can get away with it to a certain extent, but male students look like they were rejected for a recent Time magazine cover. It's as if Jonathan Winters' performance on Mork and Mindy has provided the inspiration for new fashion at the UW. They're not much different from overalls, and I can see where they might come in handy if they were flame-orange and you were out hunting in the winter, and yet I almost feel like it'd be better to succumb to the cold than to wear one.

I hope they catch on, at least briefly, so that the kids make some coin, but then I hope they go extinct like the parachute pants of my youth.

1) Cory Booker goes on Rachel Maddow and says 'I'm very upset that I'm being used by the GOP'

2) Safeway employee gets suspended for helping a pregnant women who was getting beat up on.

3) Colin Powell says he thinks Obama has done a good job overall but stops short of endorsing him again.

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The nation is buzzing with talk about the antics of a North Carolina teacher who's bias for President Obama spilled over into her classroom. After introducing Mitt Romney as a high school bully, student Hunter Roge inserted the fact that Obama has admitted to being a bully as well. Let's set aside the overuse of the term "bully" of late, and just focus on the hysterical rantings of the teacher once confronted with this information. She told the student to shut up. She tried to prevent him from talking about the President's history. She proved incapable of engaging the student in a discussion involving perspectives not her own. She was incapable of seeing her own bias at best, actively saw it and tried to indoctrinate kids with it at worst. BUT NONE OF THIS was the most outrageous thing about the video to me.

The worst thing was that the audio displayed a total lack of classroom control, of self-control, of basic understanding of her subject matter. The student was correct in his assertion about Obama and Romney being the same, but he also uses language inappropriate for a student to use toward a teacher--and you can't blame him because the teacher is setting the standard.

The initial response of the school was "let's see if this goes away" followed by a "let's give a private suspension and let this blow over" but it seems to me that in addition to the problem of the specific incident revealed in the audio being an immediate concern, the greater problem of a woefully incompetent teacher should warrant their long-term attention.

1) 13 year old boy is rescued from a dramatic accident.

2) Man "fathers" 30 kids with 11 different moms. But can't pay for them all.

3) Study shows that people who buy organic are more likely to be jerks.

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