Well I suppose there's some good news.

WA State Legislature seems to care about kids going to school and how to pay for it -

http://www.eoionline.org/blog/wa-budget-roundup-higher-education-gets-a-much-needed-boost-with-tuition-cuts/

That's good. Now let's fix the early education, cause let's face it, SBA is a fucking scam.

Kids seem to know, don't they?

http://dianeravitch.net/2015/07/10/more-than-50-of-washington-state-juniors-opt-out/

Both links courtesy Pacific NW Portal.

Finally, someone gets it.

http://www.manrepeller.com/2012/08/bare-nailed.html

I like women with clean fingernails and toenails. Something about nail paint/polish I find very frivolous and trivial - the more elaborate or 'loud' the color, the more high-maintenance I find a woman is.

On top of that, most of the colors I see generally never fit the skin tone - revealing an additional lack of fashion sense.

But really, clean fingers and toes; and clean fingernails and toenails - I respect that on a woman.

As if there aren't enough reasons to trust the government or corporations with data.

This comes along.

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.pdf?sequence=6

"This report’s analysis of law enforcement demands for exceptional access to

private communications and data shows that such access will open doors through which criminals and malicious nation-states can attack the very individuals law enforcement

seeks to defend. The costs would be substantial, the damage to innovation severe, and

the consequences to economic growth difficult to predict. The costs to developed coun-

tries’ soft power and to our moral authority would also be considerable. Policy-makers

need to be clear-eyed in evaluating the likely costs and benefits. It is no surprise that this

report has ended with more questions than answers, as the requirements for exceptional

access are still vague."

Hotter than normal in the Pacific NorthWest?

You fucking bet (Emphasis mine)

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Washington-Suffers-Deadly-Wildfires/story.xhtml?story_id=012000O8BTA0

Seattle, where conventional wisdom has it that the sun does not appear until July 5, endured its hottest June on record and its driest May and June combined. As the famously overcast region was sweating its way toward Independence Day, the National Weather Service placed the greater Puget Sound area under a heat advisory until Sunday night.

Many officials don't believe that this is a temporary phenomenon. Increasingly, they are convinced that this is the kind of early fire season that the Pacific Northwest can expect as the century unfolds.

"This is a stress test for 2070," said Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington. "We're being tested now with the warmth and lack of snowpack that will be typical at the end of the century. How do we get through it?"

Climate experts say the current conditions in the Pacific Northwest are part of a short-term climate phenomenon, but they warn that temperatures are rising everywhere. In Seattle, for example, that means warmer, wetter winters and warmer, drier summers.

Happy Canada Day 2015.

When I think about much of reality transcends borders national or otherwise, my irrational past makes me dream of better times before.

Still - as I think about that, and see my family around me and how really dependent they are on me for success let alone survival, perhaps it's an opportunity to direct that feeling forward; not only for my future, but for their's as well.

Arizona Coyotes going to Las Vegas?

Hard to believe - can't trust anything from a right-wing source.

That aside - if it's accurate - you wonder how such a deal would've been swung?

Will tomorow's Canada Day be the hottest one I spent outside Canada?

We'll find out tomorrow.