Archive for June, 2009

Cracking Down on the Thong!?

Jun 5th

Posted by Jimmy in General

Man… Yakima…  Yet another reason I don’t like to go there.  Yet another reason people laugh at you.  And I always wondered why people called Yakima the “Buttcrack of Washington”.

By Associated Press YAKIMA, Wash. — The Yakima City Council is cracking down on what an ordinance delicately refers to as “cleavage of the buttocks.”

Responding to a proliferation of coffee stands with baristas wearing see-through clothing, thongs and other scanty apparel, the council this week approved minor changes to the city’s indecent exposure law.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that Mayor Dave Elder had wanted the changes under the city’s adult business ordinance. But city legal staff warned that trying to place coffee stands under that law could lead to legal challenges.

I had no idea the “thong” was so pervasive there.

Blog-gone news outlet?

Jun 3rd

Posted by Jimmy in News-News

It probably isn’t a first (but it’s the first I’ve witnessed), but the online news blog, for lack of a better term, Pubicola, has been bought into by private invester and green developer Greg Smith.  Aside from being giddy about the prospect that it may be the first of many local/regional blog sites to be more than self driven, self funded ventures, it’s yet another step away from the predictable traditional sources and analysis (read - newspapers).  Although some are better than others, there isn’t a newspaper in Washington State that hasn’t thematically and/or ideologically distanced themselves from it’s readers.  And as we watch newspapers fold across the nation, it’s clear something is broken.   Read the rest of this entry »