Let’s review – are Eat the State and Blogula Rasa on the same page?
- Terri Schiavo: Yeppers
- Intelligent Design (sic): Hee!
- The War On Christmas: Hell, yes
- Everything’s Going Splendidly In Iraq: Check
- Michael Jackson’s Trial: I could care less about MJ
- Martha Stewart’s Comeback: Ditto MS
- Howard Dean: Hmm. When he shoots his mouth off, he’s not firing blanks. I’m not so sure about this one.
- Pat Robertson: Again, I think making the Religious Right look foolish has more value than mere newsworthiness
- The Minutemen: Okay, I agree we can ignore the yahoos
- Rossi v. Gregoire (WA state governor’s race): Yep, another example of Repugnican issue mongering
- Plus, sports, 14-Day-Accu–Pinpoint-Doppler-Radar-Insta-Weather, the usual: ITA
For the most part, I’m with Eat the State on their picks. Same with the most underreported stories, also found in the same article – W’s lameduckness, the US is a torture regime, Homeland Security’s many failures, the Downing Street memos, and “Say, where is Osama Bin Laden, anyway?”
However, I hadn’t heard of this tidbit:
Lastly, for the first time, a blog determined the outcome of a local election when David Goldstein’s HorsesAss.org broke the story that King County Executive candidate David Irons literally beat his mother. Only one major local media outlet (the P-I) would touch it, but the sensational (and true) story was enough to turn a close race into an easy victory for Ron Sims.
Very interesting reading. I guess Seattle/Western Washington politics are almost as colorful as the local Chicago/Upstate Illinois variety. I never knew that when I lived there.