Note to Connelly: Republicans Bash Seattle Because it Has Lost Touch With Reality
Joel Connelly, Seattle’s answer to Mr. Wilson in the Dennis the Menace cartoons, has taken issue with Republican efforts to tie left leaning Mankha Dhingra to the frantic and feverish lefty politics of Seattle. He’s telling supporters of Jinyoung Englund to get off his lawn because he thinks it’s not relevant to point out the […]
I’m Telling You for the Last Time: Candidate and Voter Primer on the Wrongness of MIZ
Repetition is a powerful rhetorical device. Think of music or poetry especially, but also visual art. A phrase or lyric is often repeated in order to create an impact. Think of Dylan Thomas’ poem, “Do not go gentle into that good night,” a poem that if you remember it all is remembered for the repeated […]
KOMO Highlights Weld Seattle, a Solution Discovered by Meeting Real Needs
I’ve been struggling with the concept in Hayek’s 1968 lecture, “Competition as a discovery procedure” that, essentially, we can’t really know what a problem is until the market finds a solution. But the work of Weld Seattle can give us some insight into that idea. The problem is a broken permitting process that is unpredictable […]
