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Articles by Dr. Wes Browning

Machination: a dance popularized by Electric Boogaloo Dancers and Electoral College

by Dr. Wes Browning | July 15th, 2020

The Supreme Court has been very busy lately, and I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed by it all. So many rulings, so many rants to write. I’ll never finish. SCOTUS ruled 9-0 that Washington State can require electors to vote for the candidate they are “supposed to...

Read more in the July 15-21, 2020 issue.

Strictly speaking, consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. Thus, inconsistency is the anti-hobgoblin. I hope no one is confused

by Dr. Wes Browning | July 8th, 2020

The results of the annual point-in-time count in King County are finally out. It took 160 days to completely cook the stew this time. I think that may be a record. It took so long that I had actually forgotten there had been a homeless count in January this...

Systemic racism is everywhere, even — and oddly— in math

by Dr. Wes Browning | July 1st, 2020

The U.S. Census Bureau is projecting that for the first time ever, U.S. kids under 16 are mostly either non-white or Hispanic, according to the Associated Press. Over the whole population, non-Hispanic whites now account for 60 percent of the population,...

Dungarees are funny even when nothing else is

by Dr. Wes Browning | June 24th, 2020

There’s been a lot of good news lately, but I’m having trouble finding any humor in it. The end of the Aunt Jemima pancake syrup brand is good news, but it’s hardly funny in itself. What might be funny would be if Aunt Jemima was replaced by a smiling Ward...

Read more in the June 24-30, 2020 issue.

Reclaiming even the name. I knew a Chaz — he was a snob.

by Dr. Wes Browning | June 17th, 2020

I’m so old the first thing I thought when I heard about the area formerly known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was, Seattle finally has its own Haight-Ashbury. What a wild development. Mayor Jenny Durkan tells the police to vacate the East Precinct,...

Read more in the June 17-23, 2020 issue.

At this stage in my life, I’ll say it from here: BLACK LIVES MATTER

by Dr. Wes Browning | June 10th, 2020

It was about this time four years ago when I told my supervisor at Real Change that Trump would likely win the 2016 election, and he was so sure that was impossible he bet me a dinner at my favorite restaurant that it wouldn’t happen. I didn’t have to put...

Read more in the June 10-16, 2020 issue.

My longest digression ever. Batter up!

by Dr. Wes Browning | June 3rd, 2020

The funniest thing I’ve read all week was President Trump’s threat to stop using his Twitter account. Of Twitter, NPR quoted him saying, “I think I’d be hurting it very badly if we didn’t use it anymore. We have other sites we can use, I guess, or we’d have...

Everybody gets hydroxychloroquine! And you can stay home only if your home looks like mine

by Dr. Wes Browning | May 27th, 2020

According to the interweb, NASA has found a parallel universe where time flows backward. Big deal. Time has been flowing backward for me since March. Time has been in reverse in Washington, D.C., since Jan. 20, 2017, and now it is starting to look like the...

Read more in the May 27 - June 2, 2020 issue.

‘Your honor, of what am I being charged?’ ‘You’re charged with having been charged’

by Dr. Wes Browning | May 20th, 2020

Trump now accuses Obama of a crime, but won’t say what crime. (“You know what he did.”) If he can do it to a former president, he can do it to anyone. This is very dangerous behavior. Also dangerous is Mitch McConnell saying Obama “should have kept his...

Hey, Trump, I need underpants mailed to me from Cincinnati

by Dr. Wes Browning | May 13th, 2020

After decades of telling us that shelter couldn’t be found, it got done as soon as it seemed homeless people could pass this virus to the non-homeless. I don’t know what’s crazier: we’re all going down the tubes because of a virus, we’re all going down the...