You used to rate cities' cost of living by the Cheeseburger Index, the price of an average cheeseburger. And Seattle used to score well, though we doubt it does these days.
So now comes the Guinness...
It's an annual rite in Seattle: 'Tis the season to piss on a holiday. One year it was King County discouraging employees from using the phrase "Merry Christmas" because it was not religiously neutral...
It's not just Seattle's lefties who tout the benefits of organics, it's also one of the region's premier right-wing religious political activists. There was an interesting nugget in The Seattle Times'...
I've written about so-called "nature deficit disorder" and the fact that old-fashioned summer camps – classic overnight camps that focus on nature and the outdoors – are becoming an endangered species...