I haven’t blogged in a good long while. I’ve been busier than usual and honestly, just needed a break from constantly commenting on the news cycle. But an article in the New York Times today infuriated me and I feel I have to respond. You have undoubtedly heard the awful story about the garbage people…
Keller Deduction Miscalculation
Fellow WSBA Members, As you know, each year the WSBA is required to permit its member to take a Keller deduction for the amount of your bar dues that the Bar Association estimates it spent on “political or ideological activities that are not reasonably related to the regulation of the legal profession or improving the…
Tax Cuts and Liberal Covetousness
House Republicans unveiled their plan to update the nation’s tax code on Thursday, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (a thoroughly disappointing title after President Trump teased us with his fabulous Cut, Cut, Cut, Act). There’s a lot that could be written about the GOP tax plan. To be sure, it’s not perfect, and…
The Real Truck-Driving Terror
I am stunned and appalled at the white supremacist with the confederate flag and the Ed Gillespie bumper sticker who ran down all those innocent children yesterday. Oh wait, sorry, that didn’t really happen. That was a Democrat campaign ad. What really happened yesterday was a radical Muslim immigrant ran down innocent people with a…
You’re Too Stupid to be Allowed to Vote; Let the Experts Decide for You
This summer, voters in King County gathered enough signatures to put Initiative 27 on the ballot, which would ban safe injection sites for heroin and other drugs from being set up within the county. As is common with conservative-leaning initiatives in this state, a group of people calling themselves Protect Public Health brought suit against…
Not me.
So this thing has been going around social media for the last couple of days: “If all the people who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote "Me too" as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” My feed was filled with “me too” status updates. I get…
The Real Problem with Health Care
The long-winding debate over the contraceptive mandate illustrates the single biggest problem with our healthcare system – most of us let our employer choose what kind of healthcare we receive. It makes perfect sense: if your employer is paying 100% of plan A and 75% of plan B and 0% of plans C-Z, you would…
Partisan Football League
I don’t really watch football, but it’s impossible to be on social media or read the news without being aware of what happened yesterday. Numerous teams and players, including the entirety of the Seattle Seahawks chose to stay in the locker room, sit, or kneel during the National Anthem. It’s not the first time. It…
Punching a Nazi Doesn’t Make You a Hero, It Makes You a Criminal
Another day, another story about Nazis getting punched. Today a man wearing a swastika armband was knocked unconscious in downtown Seattle. You can watch the short video of the altercation here. Given these events, I once again feel obligated to say it: it’s not OK to punch people merely for holding beliefs you disagree with.…
What the Rich Should Tell You
Rachel Sherman writes about “What the Rich Won’t Tell You” in the New York Times. The Professor of Sociology at the New School writes about the extravagant purchases of the wealthy and how they feel about them. Spoiler alert: they feel pretty darn bad. So much so that they frequently rip the price tags off…
Thinking In Seattle 