People of Wal-Mart

Pictures of people who look pathetic are funny. It's scientific fact at this point. It's also the engine behind People of Wal-Mart, that genius website that allows users to upload ridiculous camera-phone shots of ridiculous people (and other sights) captured while adventuring at ... you guessed it ... Wal-Mart!

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Oh my god. It's been damn near insufferable. With Facebook's official IPO today, and Zuckerberg and Co. ringing the Nasdaq opening bell this morning, the buildup over the last week has been borderline ridiculous.

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Seattle can be so super sometimes. Like when a guy who calls himself a real-life superhero challenges a guy who calls himself a real-life supervillain to a fight on the radio.

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Yes, yes ... it's been big news. On Monday Josh Feit heated up the new Crosscut/PubliCola marriage by divulging the first paragraph of an attention-grabbing email sent by local communications consultant Kim Fuqua and intended for King County Executive Dow Constantine - an email that accidentally went out to "dozens of acquaintances" according to the post, and an email that accidentally made public a "romantic affair" between Constantine and Fuqua.

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There are many things John Edwards was unaware of

Those following national headlines are well aware that former Democratic Presidential candidate and all-around swell guy John Edwards is on trial in North Carolina, accused of violating campaign finance laws by allegedly failing to report roughly $1 million in payments to his former aide Andrew Young in an effort to cover up the affair the Presidential hopeful had with videographer Rielle Hunter.

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Q13's David Rose

Fans of Q13, the show Washington's Most Wanted, or just awesome leather jackets know exactly who David Rose is - the crime-fighting local TV personality who likes to lace into bad guys and will stop at nothing to make our state a safer place. He's also, apparently, a fan of Seattle Weekly's hard-hitting journalistic efforts.

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Mike Sanford

So you've heard all about the investigation of Seattle Assistant Police Chief Mike Sanford, right? It was kind of a speedy ordeal - with news of the investigation breaking and then resolving (for the most part) within the span of a few hours yesterday. Still, it was everywhere, and the investigation of Sanford by the Washington State Patrol helps to shed light on a man who obviously has a few enemies within the ranks of Seattle's Boys in Blue.

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Jeff Bezos wants to sell you high-end fashion

Well, it's finally come to this. With a stranglehold on just about every other imaginable facet of capitalism, Seattle's Amazon is getting into the fancy-pants fashion business - big time. A lengthy piece published yesterday in the New York Times details Jeff Bezos' plan to forever change the way folks with too much money buy their high-end fashion.

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Ann Romney and her ugly T-shirt

Times are tough. People are struggling. Folks are out of work and scraping by in many cases. That's why when Ann Romney went on CBS "This Morning" the other day sporting a $990 T-shirt all hell broke loose. Who the fuck wears a $990 T-shirt, after all? And even more pressing, who the fuck wears a $990 T-shirt that's so incredibly fugly?

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Auctioning stuff off is all the rage. Everybody's doing it. It seems like just yesterday we were discussing the state's auctioning of its liquor stores (it was actually almost two weeks ago), and today news spreads - mainly via the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce - of the Washington Department of Transportation plan to auction off 21 "surplus" properties.

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