Quoted: Pinching pennies for Seattle school kids, but spending billions on the Viaduct?

Quoted: The charging hose actually came a couple months ago. So now, he can park the Tesla in the garage and have it recharged by solar-generated power after only two or three hours. Even if the driver should exceed the 240-mile range (where most other hybrid electric cars have only a 40-50 mile range), the car comes with a backup battery to provide a few extra miles so it doesn’t completely leave the owner stranded.

Having read much of tangotiger's work, this is great news.

Quoted: Derek noted it in passing in his thread on Blengino's BP interview, but it deserves its own post. The Mariners have hired Tom Tango as a consultant to assist

Jack Zduriencik continues to get high marks from me. He definitely seems to have a plan.

Quoted: The idea is that the team will receive video of their opponents and have workers in the new department break down each pitch from a statistical viewpoint. They can grade the break on curve balls, tendencies to throw certain pitches in certain situations, figure out what hitters like to swing at, that sort of thing.

Wow, this is a pretty big hit ... heard 2,000 this am on the radio.

Some great suggestions here for anybody coming to Seattle.

Quoted: Fashionable boutiques and gourmet shops are making the city center feel like a neighborhood again, and not just a backdrop for a Space Needle snapshot.

Quoted: What Obama Has Going For Him
Hipsters. Lots and lots of them. They love Obama. They're educated, they live in their same-sex households, they donate to Obama at a much higher clip than most states, and they're going to wear ironic clothing and send in their permanent absentee ballots for the Democratic candidate for president.

Quoted: “We used a zero-down option-ARM loan to finance the purchase of WaMu Center in 2006, and since our rate adjusted earlier this year, our payments have nearly doubled,” said CEO Kerry Killinger. “We had no idea that it would skyrocket like that.”

Heh ... h/t Tom.