Seattle Times:
A King County jury this morning found Naveed Haq guilty of eight counts, including aggravated first-degree murder, in the 2006 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The murder verdict carries an automatic life sentence for Haq...
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I don't want to speculate much about the new Google phone that Google has apparently been giving to employees, and may (or may not) be for sale in January, and may (or may not) be un-connected to any specific carrier, and may be (and probably is) pretty fucking cool.
I' [...]
Dairy farmer Brad Davis carries Moses, a Jersey Holstein calf mix at the farm of Brad Davis and Megan Johnson, right, in Sterling, Conn. Born the previous week, the calf has a white marking on its forehead in the approximate shape of a cross. (AP Photo/The Norwich Bulletin, Aaron Flaum)
[...]US Postal Service Letter Carrier, Patrick Neagle, is covered head-to-toe to fight off the frigid temperatures as he makes his mail deliveries in Spokane Tuesday. Neagle says he keeps his face covered with a cotton mask because it doesn't itch and because his wife won't let him grow a beard. [...]
Niyal Patel, not pictured, carries a cutout of President Barack Obama, in Schnecksville, Pa., this morning, where the president is scheduled to make remarks at Lehigh Carbon Community College. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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1. To make a dramatic entrance into the town hall meeting, President Obama demands to be fired from [...]
When he's not at his job as a faith-based addiction counselor, Chris Anderson sometimes dons flowing robes and a thorny crowns, picks up his cross and walks up and down a busy Coeur d'Alene street. Anderson told The Coeur d'Alene Press that it's part of his personal crusade [...]
Reports Seattlepi.com:
A man who carried a pistol into a West Seattle community center two weeks ago to protest Seattle's new ban on guns in public spaces on Friday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court, saying the policy violates the U.S. and state constitutions, as well as state law.
Bob [...]
You are probably aware that the city just elected two environmentalists named Mike—as mayor (Mike McGinn) and as city councilman (Mike O'Brien)—over candidates who were well-connected and better funded. How, exactly? Largely because of a ingenious ground game carried out by Sierra Club volunteers. Both men are former Sierra Club' [...]

Michael, a bearded panhandler beside a woman carrying cardboard “God Bless!!!” signs, pulls out a slip of paper stuffed inside his glove. It’s a citation — not having the proper business license — that he says carries $257 fine. “We ain’t been up here very long,” says Michael, [...]
This detail in the reports about the seven other sex tapes and 30 additional "salacious" photos—so many youthful mistakes!—kind of makes me feel bad for Carrie Prejean...
Some of the new sexy photographs that have been unearthed Prejean allegedly took herself, of her own reflection in a mirror, alternately topless [...]
The new book on Gary Hill's art is an excessive book. It is 639 pages and I have carried it repeatedly in the rain and become very, literally, tired of it. It is also a very good book, I am coming to admit.
I haven't' [...]
TMZ has the scoop:
TMZ has obtained a copy of a letter Vivid Entertainment honcho Steven Hirsch sent to Prejean's lawyer, Charles Limandri. Hirsch is asking to acquire the rights to distribute "erotic footage that Carrie Prejean, former Miss California, produced for her boyfriend following their" [...]
Unlike yesterday, today's subject line is not a joke. It is from Radar.com:
Stripped of her crown, Prejean sued the Miss California USA pageant but reportedly settled after the sex tape surfaced. She called the sex tape the biggest mistake of her life.
Now a RadarOnline.com investigation has uncovered that [...]