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©Dr. Wes: Rights exit, stage left

Greg Nickels has me so royally peeved, I'm tempted to just write "Greg Nickels is an arrogant, narcissistic fool" 75 times and turn that in. I've been told by the editor I could get away with that sort of thing. He's said no one w ...

October 8th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Adventures in Nickelsville

Back in the '60s I was a rally chaser. Missing a rally or a march would be like missing an episode of Star Trek. An enormous sense of grief would come over me, made worse by the knowledge that there would be no summer reruns in the case of the rallie ...

February 20th, 2009 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: The case for the new jail

There's been a lot of talk recently about Seattle's need for a municipal jail. But not everything has been said on the subject that could be said. For example, no one has suggested that the new jail could be designed with futuristic sweeping cur ...

October 15th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Step off, Mr. Mayor

Let's talk about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA)! A 1963 Supreme Court case decided that a Ms. Sherbert who was fired for not working on her Sabbath day was entitled to unemployment benefits, establishing the four-part "Sherbert Tes ...

October 22nd, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Never fear, we’ve got mustard

My latest obsession: I've gone from doing a couple hundred sudoku per day to spending way too much time trying to invite friends to a certain internet social network. Actually, that's a little misleading. I'm really building a virtual fiefd ...

October 29th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: There goes another $700B

I don't know what to say. I can't not be sardonic. It's too fahrf Dr. Wes Browning ...

September 24th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Nickelsville is the mayor’s fault

I have a column due by 9 a.m. this morning, and I've also promised Anitra "Not Acting On Behalf Of Anybody In Particular" Freeman that by the same time I'd read a book-length manifesto on Nickelsville that she wrote with a committee. N ...

September 17th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: How to react when your Fannie is seized

Ooh, the Bush government just seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and I'm all a-twitter! Quick partial telegraphic history of U.S. Government involvement in the housing, rental, and mortgage business since the New Deal: Home Owners' Loan Corporat ...

September 10th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Sixties spy shows on the campaign trail

Here at Adventures in Irony, we aim to put everything that matters into perspective and distort beyond recognition everything that doesn't matter. Let's talk about the U.S. presidential election! We now know who's running. On the Dem side, ...

September 3rd, 2009 - Dr. Wes Browning
©Dr. Wes: Down by Law

Here's a quote I find fascinating. It was in an opinion piece for Indymedia in San Francisco, attributed to an unnamed reader of Mortgage News Daily. "If we don't do something [about the foreclosure crisis] we are going to have an epidemic ...

August 27th, 2008 - Dr. Wes Browning