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The oldest newspaper in the great Northwest (and Seattle’s oldest business) rolled off the presses for the last time Monday night – meaning Tuesday’s paper will be a collector’s item for the future – the last print copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Hearst Corporation announced it would stop publishing the 146-year old newspaper. On Wednesday, over 100,000 subscribers walked out to their front lawns and discovered no paper in their yards. For newspaper junkies like me, the withdrawal would be tragic. I read both print and online versions of the news on most mornings and feel out of kilter if I don’t do it.

The Seattle paper, like other publishers who have done the same thing, will not go completely out of business, as it will continue as an online source for news, www.seattlepi.com. Not too long ago, the Kansas City Kansan did the same thing by ceasing its print version to go completely online. That’s happening more and more with the smaller news companies but the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is the largest paper in the country to do so thus far.... READ MORE.

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I just love a good “doolally” moment, don’t you? Honestly, who hasn’t acted like a doolally person every now and then and thought afterward, “Wasn’t that lovely?” I thought I knew what a doolally was about until I received today’s A.Word.A.Day published online by Anu Garg. I guessed it was a word derived from a similar silly-sounding word, “lollygaggle.” They look related, don’t they? Doolally, however, has nothing at all to do with lollygaggle. They’re so completely afar from one another as to border on the ludicrous. Doolally is an adjective meaning, “irrational, deranged, or insane.”

Maybe that’s what happened to the Iraqi news reporter who took off his shoes and threw them at President Bush the other day. How dare he become a doolally journalist thus insulting the President of the United States!

In the aftermath of an incident that occurred while Bush was saying goodbye to Iraq and the war he unleashed there but cannot seem to end, Muntader al-Zaidi, a 29-year old news journalist... READ MORE.
 

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I’m at the age where I want to revisit the touch and smell of a little baby. So on those wondrous days when we mark the birth of a church baby through a child/parent dedication, I get the sweet privilege of holding the baby in my arms as we say the words of a litany that describes our holy calling together. It’s holy because we hold a life in our arms as we speak and it’s holy because the power and privilege of raising a child is one God gives us through creation and procreation.In a strange and wonderful mystery, we hold the future in our arms if you consider all that is held in the potentiality of what might happen in the one we hold... READ MORE.

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Seems there’s a lot of talk these days about the notion of incuriosity. Webster’s describes it as “lacking interest, as in detached.” Garrison Keillor mirrors this term by famously labeling President Bush as, “the current occupant.” Keillor’s pet phrase seems to capture the spirit of one accused of being incurious, don’t you think? Did anyone know just how incurious the President could be when he marched into the White House eight years ago? When asked to name a mistake he might have made in his first term he couldn’t think of one. Even today there seems to be no sense of acceptance of how the war has gone or how the national debt has grown while the economy has sunk. Incurious might be kind in light of how things have gone for the current occupant...