Big brother is at it again, and by big brother I mean Google, of course. Its popular mapping software has been one of the company’s staples for the past five years, giving ordinary citizens the power of God to spy on any location with its popular street view, [...]
If this were a movie, it would be classified as a ranch noir:
(Seattle Times) An Arlington-area rancher accused of fatally shooting his older brother in a dispute over cattle is being held in Snohomish County Jail for investigation of second-degree murder.
Mark Hillis, 47, was booked into the jail [...]
This is about brotherly love. No. Not incest, but frat boy love. I'm gay, in a fraternity, all that is cool and everything. I was resigned to not sleeping with any of these guys, as appealing as that is. Now last night one of the guys was really wasted and' [...]
Coeur d'Alene Police are working to track down a man they say robbed a Northwest Boulevard coffee stand Saturday night. Police say a man walked up to the drive thru window at the Dutch Brothers coffee stand at 1680 Northwest Boulevard just after 8:30 Saturday night and pointed a gun at a clerk' [...]
Lasting marriages run in the Fels family. In November, Gene and Evelyn “Evie” Fels celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary. Gene’s brother Wilbert “Joe” Fels and his wife, Nora, celebrated their 64th anniversary in May. A festive feeling permeated Gene and Evie’s Spokane Valley home when the two couples met to discuss their enduring [...]
Jim Sheridan's remake of Danish director Susanne Bier's 2005 original about the familial and psychic trauma caused by Operation Enduring Freedom feels like Operation Endurance. Marine captain and stalwart head-of-household Sam (Tobey Maguire), married to his high-school sweetheart, Grace (Natalie... [...]
Andrew Wright did not love it:
Bound and at least three-quarters of the original Matrix aside, the Wachowski brothers have shown a distressing tendency to take should-be-surefire geek concepts and boil the fun right out of them. The Wachowski-produced Ninja Assassin (directed by their V for Vendetta [...]
My family is packed with police officers. My father and his brother, now both retired, spent most of their adult years as Chicago police officers. My father’s second wife (my stepmother) did too. And one of their daughters (my half-sister) is still a Chicago cop. So I really, really hate [...]
A Mario Brothers video game is projected onto a large screen on stage, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic plays for the premiere of the debut performance of Video Games Live at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
"I now pronounce you husband and what?!
In another sign that the world is about" [...]
It amazes me that the leaders of the Catholic Church are taken seriously when they lecture other people—including non-Catholics—about their sexual morality. BBC:
A Catholic religious order is to supply a 161m euros (£145m) package of measures as reparation for child abuse in Ireland. The Christian Brothers said the decision [...]
A man whose family has been fighting to get him out of prison for a Thanksgiving furlough will have some company at the jail over the holidays. Terry Kinard’s brother Steven was arrested for drug dealing Tuesday in East Central Spokane. Steven Kinard was arrested for delivery of [...]
Film
'We Live in Public'Nearly a decade before Big Brother, internet entrepreneur Josh Harris was playing Big Brother, presenting a series of outlandish and extreme "human experiments" as entertainments for what he dreamed would be an ever-growing audience of round-the-clock viewers on the internet. In the [...]
The Green Revolution doesn't seem to have slowed the government down much.
The state will put the brother-in-law of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi on trial for unspecified charges. (He was arrested during the June tumult.)
Israel claims it has intercepted 500 tons of weapons going from Iran to' [...]
David Schmader approves of We Live in Public:
Nearly a decade before Big Brother, Josh Harris was playing Big Brother, creating a series of outlandish and extreme "human experiments" presented as entertainments for what he dreamed would be an ever-growing audience of round-the-clock internet viewers. In the [...]
