You can of course read it at site, you can run it through any number of news aggregators also. Bloglines is my choice.

Google has jumped into the fray, they now have a beta Google Reader. I gave it the Jaded Elf test and am now a touch nauseous. Try it out, subscribe to OlyBlog with a few aggregators, pull up the Jaded Elf graphic, then compare.

Google Reader uses a sliding bar thingy. ("Thingy" is an official tech term.) Caution, it can produce motion sickness. Especially with Jaded Elf viewing.

Community Voice Mail is a simple and effective solution to a complex problem -- how to help people in crisis and transition stay connected to the very tool they need most: a constant telephone number.

Olympia Info

"Let us be clear: torture can never be an instrument to fight terror, for torture is an instrument of terror. "

....from Message on Human Rights Day, 10 December 2005

[edit images added 2007/Dec/18:]

peace...

Better hope you're wearing your body armor!

With the new eminent domain power granted to the government this might not be too far off the horizon in this country.

This is also another example of government turning on its own people and the necessity for an, ahem, Second Amendment.

Associated Press:

"BEIJING — Armed with guns and shields, hundreds of riot police sealed off a southern Chinese village after fatally shooting as many as 20 demonstrators and were searching for the protest organizers, according to villagers and a newspaper report today."

Continued: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002675413_china10.html

 Check out this story (via a DKos diary):

A group of investors from Florida, who are regular contributors to Bush and GOP National Committee, are trying to break up the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain. Knight-Ridder is one of the few truly independent mainstream news sources that provides truly independent coverage and investigative journalism. Knight Ridder includes the Philadelphia Inquirer, as well as major papers in Northern California, Miami and many other cities.

Their reporters had the rare distinction of being able to see through the Bush Administration's smokescreen before the Iraq invasion. Their stories in 2002 and 2003 predicted everything that has subsequently happened in Iraq - based upon leaks provided to them by career State Department and Defense Department staff.

 K-R owns the Olympian newspaper.

The graduation speaker for the class of 1979 was Angelo Pellegrini. When he was a boy, he came with his family from Italy to McCleary in 1913 and eventually worked his way up to being a highly respected UW professor and widely read author. Angelo was a true Renaissance man, writing in a very interdisciplinary way about history, food, human nature, and the art of living a joyful life.

This graduation was held on Red Square. The very first Super Saturday was taking place as well, a direct result of the CPE's recommendations and a sign that TESC was taking the idea of local marketing very seriously. So the place was packed.

As Angelo stepped up to the podium, a sudden gust of wind came up, blowing his prepared remarks all over the stage. And into the microphone the Grand Old Man cursed, "Well, God DAMN it!!

It had been one of those years and he summed it up very well.

From SFGate.com:

Six people have been arrested in connection with ecoterrorism attacks dating to 1998, including a fire at an Oregon poplar farm set at the same time as a devastating blaze at the University of Washington's Center for Urban Horticulture.

The university fire — one of the Northwest's most notorious acts of ecoterrorism — was set early on May 21, 2001. About 110 miles away in Clatskanie, Ore., fire ripped through buildings and vehicles at the Jefferson Poplar Farm, causing more than $1 million in damage. The Earth Liberation Front, a shadowy collection of environmental activists, claimed responsibility for both fires, which caused no injuries.

The arrests were made Wednesday in New York, Virginia, Oregon and Arizona, and each defendant has been indicted in the Northwest, the U.S. attorney's office said. Besides the tree farm fire, the attacks included three other arsons in Oregon, a $1.2 million fire at a U.S. Department of Agriculture facility in Olympia, and the toppling of a Bonneville Power Administration transmission tower near Bend, Ore., as the millennium drew near.

Is it really terrorism if only buildings get destroyed?

From the Seattle PI:

PORT ORCHARD -- Four demonstrators accused of blocking a road to the Navy's Trident submarine base at Bangor have been charged in Kitsap County District Court, the first charges in the county in seven years of such protests.

Bryce Brown, 31, Shannon Bushnell, 29, Patricia Imani, 43, and Alice Zillah, 32, all of Olympia, each are charged with one count of failure to disperse.

The four were among 19 people arrested Aug. 8 when they blocked a road leading into the base to commemorate the 60th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II.

In an interesting twist: only the protesters from Olympia were charged. What's up with that?