in other blogs: electability, reboots, liberation, green eats and drinks, craigslist caucus, ignition
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- Sean Nelson vies for title of today’s smartest Slogger, writing on the topic of electability and how being undecided doesn’t mean being braindead. [slog]
- Starbucks to reboot barista training on 26 February [sbuxgossip], rebooting wifi in a switch from pricey t-mobile to a little closer to free at&t [sbuxgossip]
- KEXP to “liberate” NYC radio. [kexp]
- Green tacos to go with green beer (biggest surprise: chipotle broke its ties with mcdonalds). [bravenewleaf]
- Scanning craigslist, finding lots of people all hotted up by caucusing. [seattlest]
- A preview of next week’s talks, including “A pseudoscience guide to geek dating”. [igniteseattle]
tournament of blogs reminders:
- Round One — closes tonight: music & P-I groups (three imaginary girls have a few more votes than sound on the sound; huskies fan ahead of ear candy)
- Round One — closes tomorrow: people & friends & “enemies” groups (kirida with a huge lead ; citizen rain fending off the big blog)
- Round One — closes Thursday: art & ‘hoods (pike/pine trails glitter pissing ; mid-beacon hill a few votes up on blogging georgetown after a polling reset)
- Round Two (started today): Seattle Bubble with an early lead over U.S.S. Mariner and Vintage Seattle ahead of Accidental Hedonist.
Re: "smartest SLOGger," "electability" is a silly argument to begin with, and a stupid reason to vote for someone ("well, the dumb-asses will pick X, so I might as well pick him too").
Of course, my above argument is exactly the ones the Nader-ites used when they gave Florida to W in 2000 - they just didn’t consider "country-running-ability," which IS an important quality and of which Nader had even less than W.