Maybe it really is springtime for Hitler. In the last few weeks, Nazi and fascism references have been everywhere, flying from the right, the left and landing on everything in between, from the Olympics and the Dalai Lama to pasta and Puget Sound. Let's take a quick tour of jackboot country.
"Do you notice how she's always drawn to the children?" Tracy Prazo of the State Association of Electrical Workers asked. Her face was inches from the bus window, as she peered down at Gov. Christine Gregoire walking toward a small group of longshoremen.
The on-again, off-again saga of saving the Sonics and KeyArena has taken another turn. Apparently the drop-dead date of April 10 for having a deal for the Steve Ballmer ownership group is really just a coma-threat. The group of heavy-hitter owners-in-waiting will simply go into hibernation once the
A vodka ad stirs anger and nationalism, tapping a history that links to the fight for the Pacific Northwest.
Two reasons for getting to know more about Chicago. If Barack Obama is elected, we'd have a creature of Chicago politics in the White House. And Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, a Chicago native who even vacations in the Windy City (in August!), is positively Chicagoesque in his governing style.
