Author: howieinseattle

Kevin Phillips, who I believe is still a Republican, surveys the various options available to those of us who are troubled by the prospect of enduring the current national regime until January 2009, and comes to this conclusion:...

In case you don’t know, Dan is the author of the nationally syndicated column “Savage Love” and is the editor of Seattle’s alternative newspaper, “The Stranger.” The new website has a rather...

“In 1978 or so, Mstislav Rostropovich, the famed cellist who ultimately made the National Symphony Orchestra into a national treasure, arrived on our shores from Russia from which he had been exiled by Leonid Brezhnev....

Update [2006-3-23 8:47:5 by howieinseattle]: Matt Stoller says this in “Mattering on Censure”— I’ve been in and out of meetings and the gist of what I hear is that the conventional wisdom on censure is...

“The idea that Democrats don’t think it’s a winning thing to say that we will stand up for the rule of law and for checking abuse of power by the executive — I just can’t believe that Democrats...