slow down for pedestrians
at intersections
you sicko dingbats!

Rumor has it that Mitch McConnell whispered to Rick Scott "You come at the king, you best not miss."

@2: Here's hoping that having been re-elected her sixth term as a Washington State Senator, Patty Murray, whose tennis shoes are still running just fine, pisses off Mitch "Turtle Boy" McConnell to the point it announces its retirement. Moscow Mitch will have to do something before the GOP gobbles it up and craps it out. A lot of RepubliKKKans are mad that they didn't get the red wave as expected.

The crosswalk at Harvard is hilarious because it is one short block in either direction from a marked crosswalk. One block east, and you’re at Broadway. One block west and you’re at Boylston.

People are just fucking lazy.

@4 Having to go one block in both directions out of one's way (assuming one's destination is on Harvard, such as the library) is a considerable hardship for the mobility-challenged, especially those in wheelchairs. The Boylston crosswalk is additionally problematic for this purpose because using it means going down and then up a hill. There absolutely needs to be some kind of pedestrian marking at that intersection, preferably a traffic light or at least a pedestrian-operated crossing light.

(Arrgh. My above comment was in response to TheMisanthrope, not auntie grizelda. Jeez, this comment system is a kludge.)

@7 CKathes: It's okay. I know who you were responding to. Yeah--the comment system can get a little weird with assigning dual numbers at times.

"Duplicitous crypto dude" is a redundancy.

“Why didn't we do this seven years ago, when former Mayor Ed Murray (disgraced) declared homelessness a crisis? Ah yes, NIMBYs.”

Ah no, it was (and is) because the homelessness crisis has nothing to do with housing affordability. (If the Stranger’s writers could just stop double-fisting the edibles long enough to actually look things up, they’d know there was no housing-affordability crisis in 2015.)

The Stranger also might want to ask Seattle’s voters about whether Mayor Murray was “disgraced” by the political character assassination his longtime opponents and enemies had inflicted upon Seattle. In the elections to succeed him, the candidate he had endorsed won easily over all of the Stranger’s endorsed candidates. By that measure, it was the Stranger’s candidates who were “disgraced,” not Murray or his endorsed candidate.

@9 perhaps that is true but SBF is particularly notable as being a public figurehead of Effective Altruism (aka the modern day Noblesse Oblige), which is essentially is a scam philosophy and deserves to have a public reckoning as such. So despite the obvious re: crypto, SBF's shitty interview is still worth reading as an artifact of a greater cultural overture

@10 is so so wrong. There's been housing unaffordability for a long time, and it started decades ago.

The solution? Build public housing.

And remove the SFH zoning that was imposed on 70 percent of Seattle back in 1933, instead of the original 65 foot MFH zoning that existed before, which allowed them to build all the cool buildings in the city.