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“Around here,” a Ku Klux Klan member in good standing once told me, “The only thing worse than a nigger is a nigger-lover.”  That was a long time ago and deep in the heart of Dixie, but the sentiment remains pervasive, from Cliven Bundy (defending his welfare ranch in Nevada) to NBA owner Donald Sterling…

Why would I want to be integrated into a burning house?  — James Baldwin In all the intense and wide-ranging testimony about the Marriage Equality bills (SB 6239 and HB 2516) nobody asked an obvious question: Why would anyone want to be married by the state? Even the most cursory glance at the history of…

A big thanks to Senators Hill, Tom, Becker, Kastama, and Litzow, who have put some money in our pocket here at the blog.  Last year, when the bill to establish Western Governors University-Washington was slithering through the legislature and everybody was promising that WGU would never come back looking for state funding, a betting pool…