While trolling through today's Floor Proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives for our other job (it's an exciting one), we noticed something that will probably get no coverage anywhere else. However, we think it is important to note when Congress singles out one faith as important. We think it's doubly important to note when the vote is taken while Congress fights with the Bush Administration over funding the government for the next year, haggles......

Quick, while Paris is in jail and the politicians annointed as "official" candidates by CNN and Fox are poking each others' eyes out, let's take a moment to talk about the Farm Bill. (Yeah, right.) Seriously, because you are what you eat, you know. (Yeah, right.) There's probably no clearer voice in America about the business of food than Michael Pollan's. In his award-winning book, The Omnivore's Dilemma and in regular newspaper articles, he......

Now that the UW finally picked a commencement speaker (they settled on Congressman Norm Dicks after Doug E. Doug cancelled), we've compiled this list of 2007 grad day yakkers at all local colleges (source: The Chronicle of Higher Education). Please let us know if we're wrong or if we left anyone out. Local colleges Bastyr College: Joycelyn Elders, masturbation proponent City University of Seattle: James Donaldson, ex-NBA player Evergreen State College: Maxine Mimms, education expert......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too,......

--Seattle is under assault by marketing terrorists representing the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. We haven't seen any of these suspicious devices for ourselves, but we have a tip that there's one at 2nd and Stewart "except it wasn't the lit-up version -- just a huge poster/banner thing." Please can we not freak out and evacuate the city like Boston? --This is the reason it's ok to be scared and cross the street when you......

--A Seattle-area business-type is set to compete on The Apprentice this year. It's James Sun, CEO of a "mature alternative to social networking sites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com" called Zoodango.com. Uh, "Zoodango" doesn't strike us as particularly mature... You're fired. --You are indeed beautiful, cafeteria visitor. You are beautiful. --"And if a Congressman wants to take his oath on a stack of Hustlers, I could care less." --Don't think you can badmouth Pitchfork......

You'd think the President of the United States could handle a one-fingered criticism, and you'd think a Congressman would have better things to do than get a bus driver fired, but apparently not, according to the King County Journal: [Congressman Dave] Reichert rode with Bush in his motorcade when the president came to the Eastside in June to raise money for Reichert and the state Republican Party. Stopped on an entrance to the freeway from......

A common liberal criticism of Congressman Dave Reichert (R-Eastside) is that, despite cultivating an outsider image, he's in lockstep with the Republican Party. Darcy Burner, Reichert's Democratic opponent for Congress, also portrays herself as an outsider. From her campaign website: It's clear to me that the politicians in Washington, DC are out of touch, the special interests have too much power, and it's time to take our country in a different direction. Yet yesterday,......

Gilbert & Sullivan's advice, when the foeman bears his steel, is to take heart of grace. As for that disgraced Congressman, retiring to his yacht, this anthem: When a felon's not engaged in his employment (his employment) Or maturing his felonious little plans (little plans) His capacity for innocent enjoyment ('cent enjoyment) Is just as great as any honest man's (honest man's). It's sung by a chorus of Keystone Kops, whose courage must be kept......

Congressman Jim McDermott will be playing all the hits, sending out your long distance dedications, and generally getting the Led out all week. Tired of trying to make-out with Osama, Saddam, and the rest of those Al-Qaeda villains, Baghdad Jim will be hosting Dave Ross' weekly KIRO radio show while Ross is on vacation. One question you may want to ask McDermott, besides what exactly do you do for Seattle, is what should be done......

Interleauge play begins again this weekend. In baseball stadiums all over the West geographical rivals will stare each other down: Oakland vs. San Francisco, Houston vs. Texas, Los Angeles of Los Angeles vs. Los Angeles of Anaheim, and Seattle vs. San Diego. Yeah, we know, the Padres again. While everyone else in the AL West will celebrate a weekend of, "We're neighbors so I hate you," we will end up dancing with the only girl......

This week's weather was beautiful, enough to justify Seattlest's first bbq of the year. But it's going to be a wet weekend, according to KOMO-TV's Scott Sistek. How will Seattlest keep dry? Read on... Ronald plans a weekend excursion to Snoqualmie to help a colleague move her office overseas and get his hands on various electronics that won't work where she's going. An ideal opportunity to try out Flexcar's new keycard system. Then home to......

There is really no point to this post, except to let you once again read that Tom DeLay will be resigning from Congress. He will give up his seat and focus on being a martyr for the ignorant and easily duped. We have admitted many times before that we are not above schadenfreude, so this post should come as no surprise. Now please excuse us, as we stretch to add a local connection. (Ahem). This......

Congressman Jim McDermott is calling for Seattle to move quickly on a plan to replace the Viaduct. This leaves us wondering if he’s spending to much time in that other Washington, because clearly he has forgotten how we do things out here. Upon returning from a tour of areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina he told the AP, "I came away with the strong feeling that here in Seattle we have to have our own plans......

Last week former governor-elect-for-a-few-weeks Dino Rossi announced that he will not run against Senator Maria Cantwell in next year's election. While this was not a complete shock, it has started a chain of events that could have Safeco CEO Mike McGavick announce his candidacy by the end of the week. After Rossi made his announcement, state Republican Party Chair Chris Vance also stated that he would not seek the seat, which leads to McGavick,......

It may not be as desirable as hottest rock star wife or as prestigious as greatest novel, but our own Congressman Jim McDermott has been named the 38th worst American. In a new book by conservative author Bernard Goldberg the 100 worst Americans are ranked, from Michael Moore (number 1) to Hippie O'Flagburner (number 100). Goldberg told the AP that McDermott had made the list because of his visit to Baghdad in the fall......

Wishful thinking has us feeling that Bush’s second term is almost over, which means we’re rapidly approaching the mid-term elections…give or take a few summers. State Republicans are also gearing up for 2006 and a run against Senator Maria Cantwell. Cantwell has been made a target by the Republican Party, who feel that her low profile along with GOP anger over the governor’s race make her vulnerable. Among those who would challenge her next fall......