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• Today Is the Last Day to Register to Vote Online for Washington's August Primary

  06-07-2015 23:59
  
  Voter registration drones. Why isn't that a thing yet? Kirill_M / Shutterstock
  BEEP BEEP BEEEP. THIS IS YOUR REMINDER. YOU HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THE DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE ONLINE FOR THE UPCOMING AUGUST PRIMARY ELECTION. From Sydney's post last week:Are you angry about all the shitty, shitty, fucked up shit?
  Don't forget to register to vote this week for our very exciting, local primary elections! Monday, July 6, is the last day you can register to vote online or by mail for the primary, which
  
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• In Music News: Russell Wilson and Ciara NOT Having Sex, Grohl's High Designs, Seattle Resident in Rihanna's New Video

  06-07-2015 23:47
  
  Russell Wilson—not getting any.Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com
  • Russell Wilson stopped by the Rock Church in San Diego on Sunday to talk about his faith. Although the Seattle Seahawks' quarterback continues to wrestle with contract negotiations, he was affable and willing to dig in on the tough topics—including his sex life with R&B artist Ciara. Apparently the gorgeous pair, against incredible odds, have managed to abstain from sex?!You see, God spoke to Wilson in Ciara's dres
  
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• I, Anonymous: More Like XBox ZERO

  06-07-2015 23:14
  
  You: an Xbox One gaming lounge that should have been a gamer girl's dream. Me: said gamer girl, who has lost faith in humanity AGAIN. I had hoped that the allure of paying for gaming good times in an awesomely quasi-futuristic setting would mean the beginning of a world where gamers and newbies sat around passing the time with violent visuals on the connected displays of Xbox Ones. No such luck. All I asked for was a bit of simple playtime, and what did I get? Some asshole...
  
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• The True Detective Chitty Chat Club: E-Cigarettes Are the Worst

  06-07-2015 22:34
  
  Did you watch True Detective last night? Spoiler alert: It was not as good as the US Women's Soccer team victory over Japan. BUT WHAT ON EARTH IS? However, there were things to chitty chat about, and chitty chat about them I will after the jump! Spoilers ahoy!
  Courtesy HBO"Do you feel awkard? I don't feel awkward. It's not awkward. Why would I feel awkward?"
  MORE AFTER THE JUMP!Here's what I'm thinking about last night's episode, "Maybe Tomorrow."
  1) Well, first things first: Bent cop Ray McMust
  
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• Hillary Made a Playlist Just for Me, So Why Do I Still Feel So Alone?

  06-07-2015 22:02
  
  I want to know the real soundtrack that's playing in her head. TRINACRIA PHOTO / Shutterstock.com
  Hillary's been on Twitter for two years. She joined Instagram and Spotify three weeks ago, and Pinterest last week.She's so active on social media that she's endanger of becoming that guy at a wedding who won't leave the single bridesmaid alone, the guy who keeps happening to pop up next to her while she's standing at the punch bowl, or looking forlornly from the stair, or exiting the bathroom. Righ
  
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• Zach Anderson Is Not a Fiend

  06-07-2015 21:55
  
  A great post by Lenore Skensazy at Free Range Parenting about the kid I wrote about this morning:
  Zach is not a fiend. And one fourth of the people on the registry got on as minors…because minors have sex with other minors. That doesn’t make them predators. It makes them like most of us, people who have sex with people in our age bracket. And yet, we’re talking 200,000 young lives decimated—200,000 dots on sex offender maps, scaring parents from ever sending their kids ou
  
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• Acid-House Innovator Charanjit Singh Has Died

  06-07-2015 21:12
  
  Singh's classic 1982 LP: so mesmerizing, so ahead of its time.
  Charanjit Singh, the Bollywood session guitarist and synthesist who recorded the first acid-house album in 1982, passed away in his Mumbai, India home on July 3. He was 74.Singh gained the attention of many in the West in 2010 when the Bombay Connection label reissued his classic Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat album, which predated the acid house coming out of Chicago by a few years. It's an amazing artifact that still sounds sui generis
  
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• Seattle Police Training Session, Held Up As a National Model, Lands Trainer and Trainee in Hot Water

  06-07-2015 20:54
  
  Seattle police officers attend a bias-free policing training session in 2014 Seattle.gov
  It happened again, folks. Something fucked up happened, a lot of Seattle cops—including high-ranking officers—knew about it, and nobody reported it to the department's misconduct investigators. Only after it was exposed in the press did Chief Kathleen O'Toole refer the case to the Office of Professional Accountability for an inquiry.
  That's the sequence of events that played out with Officer Cynt
  
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• The Immense Loneliness of Jim Shepard's Holocaust Novel The Book of Aron

  06-07-2015 20:03
  
  Author Jim Shepard. BARRY GOLDSTEIN
  Before we can even get into the story of The Book of Aron, the bleaker-than-Bleak-House narrative of boys smuggling turnips and information through the heavily guarded walls of the Jewish ghetto, the decline of an orphanage therein, and the looming specter of Treblinka—before we can dig into the language, it seems important to ask this question: Why did a non-Jew living in the 21st century write a book about the Holocaust?
  The question doesn't make Jim S
  
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• An Ode to the Failures of Mariners Catcher Jesus Sucre

  06-07-2015 19:54
  
  #6JN Marineros de Seattle subieron al venezolano Jesús Sucre #360ucv pic.twitter.com/BMuFnJGZQC
  — 360 Mundo (@360mundo) June 6, 2015Felix Hernandez gave up two runs on the Fourth of July and lost, because the Mariners scored zero runs. While it’s easy to say that, at this point in his career, Hernandez should know better than to allow any runs, it’s also a stupid thing to say. Instead, I’ll say that the Mariners' lineup sure is underwhelming in a very Mariners kind o
  
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• Greece Votes No to Austerity, Loses its Brilliant Finance Minister, and Faces an Uncertain Future

  06-07-2015 19:41
  
  Greece's handsome finance minister Yanis Varoufakis resigns because Berlin hates his guts. Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock
  The situation in Greece really began in the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, when Canada, the UK, and, most importantly, Germany announced the end of fiscal spending to deal with a global recession that began with the crash of the US's financial sector in 2008. The message was clear from Germany: Restoring business confidence was the only way to recovery. And restoring business con
  
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• I Was So Jealous of Portland Mercury's Weed the People Event, I Made Them Send a Bunch of Photos

  06-07-2015 19:26
  
  Marijuana possession became legal in Oregon last Wednesday, and on Friday, more than a thousand people lined up to get seven free grams of marijuana from licensed growers—free because the state hadn't implemented the retail system yet. The event was covered by The Guardian and The Oregonian. And you can find more photos over at the Portland Mercury.ronitphoto.comronitphoto.comThor ronitphoto.comronitphoto.comronitphoto.comronitphoto.comronitphoto.comThorronitphoto.comronitphoto.comronitpho
  
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• Can We Do Something Like This to Drivers Who Park in Bike Lanes?

  06-07-2015 18:20
  
  Via the shirtless man who lives in my kitchen.[ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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• Indiana Man Will Spend the Rest of His Life on Sex-Offender Registry for Having Sex With Another Teenager When He Was a Teenager

  06-07-2015 17:58
  
  Zachery Anderson is from a small town in Indiana. He met a teenager on an online dating app a year ago when he was still a teenager. He drove to Michigan, where the girl lives, and the pair wound up having sex. The age of consent in Michigan is 16. Anderson was 19 at the time, the girl told him she was 17. She was actually 14. NYT:
  The case came to the attention of the police after the girl’s mother contacted them, concerned about her whereabouts. They were at her home when the girl return
  
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• Indiana Man Will Spend the Rest of His Life on Sex-Offender Registry for Having Sex With a Teenager When He Was a Teenager

  06-07-2015 17:58
  
  Zachery Anderson is from a small town in Indiana. He met a girl from Michigan on an online dating app a year ago. Anderson drove to the small town in Michigan where the girl lives, met up with the girl, and the pair wound up having sex. The age of consent in Michigan is 16. Anderson was 19 at the time, the girl told him she was 17. She was actually 14.
  NYT:
  The case came to the attention of the police after the girl’s mother contacted them, concerned about her whereabouts. They were at her
  
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• The Morning News: A Shooting in Auburn, a Smoking Ban in All Seattle Parks, and a Fourth of July Record

  06-07-2015 17:37
  
  A woman is in critical condition at Harborview Medical Center after a shooting last night in Auburn. Harborview Medical Center / Shutterstock
  One Person Dead and One Person Injured After a Shooting in Auburn, 30 Miles South of Seattle: "Stunned witnesses watched in disbelief as a man gunned down two people in a busy Auburn park—killing one victim and critically wounding the second—before calmly walking to his truck and driving off." The truck is white, with Idaho plates.
  Speaking of
  
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• Police Reports Illustrated: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Knife

  06-07-2015 15:01
  
  Callan Berry [ Comment on this story ][ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  
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