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America's Most Miserable Sports Cities, 2009

Seattle, abandoned by the NBA, takes this year's booby prize.

"In the 1990s, no city was hotter than Seattle.

Microsoft was flying high; Starbucks was growing into a juggernaut. Kurt Cobain and Nirvana were leading the grunge rock movement from underground clubs to international record deals.

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i still see no compelling case for personal gun ownership.

paranoid schizos and/or for-profit lobbyist groups.

let's just strike the second amendment already.

from sherman alexie's fingers to your eyes:

"Six times this season, as a professional basketball orphan, as a teamless vagabond, I made the drive from Seattle to Portland to watch the Blazers. It was fun the first time. It was difficult the second time. The third, fourth, and fifth trips were torturous. I drove through a horrendous fog the sixth ( Read more... )

i always think i see russ in the u-district - either on the ave, or on buses headed to/from capitol hill.  is this really russ i'm seeing, or just people who look like him?

i don't know, and i suppose i wouldn't care if it didn't happen so frequently.

whatever.
HEADING HOME NOW!

President Obama is really getting it done in Europe! 
"'Today the largest countries of the world have agreed on a global plan for economic recovery and reform," said the host, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. His announcement was quickly followed by similar ones by the French and German leaders, who supported the results of the summit.

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"It is not ethically acceptable to learn from the misery of the vulnerable without protecting them from known risks of serious harm"