...nothing new under the sun.

Five people were killed in Seattle shootings this week, bringing the year-to-date homicides in our city even with the number of homicides in all of last year.  In Madison Park, a man who caused a lockdown of an elementary school reported that he was on a jog and only carrying a holstered pistol as protection, in light of all the recent shootings around the city. 

Liquor sales were transitioned from state facilities to public stores in Washington.  Divers in Penn Cove were having trouble recovering a 140-foot fishing boat that caught fire and sunk there and oyster beds were suffering.  US Forest Service officers were found to be discriminating against latinos in the Olympic Peninsula.

Las Cruces, New Mexico was experiencing a plague of animal bites.  In Galloway, Scotland, the owners of a falconry center were reported to have mysteriously disappeared.  In Florida, a naked man publicly chewed the face off another man before he was shot by police.  Rush Limbaugh announced: "This cannibal, this guy down in Florida, he's more in common with the Occupy movement than he does any other group in this country."

Wednesday night we eat Vietnamese food at the newly-opened Belltown location of Green Leaf, which serves great food and has no windows because it is in the basement of the Labor Temple on First Avenue.  The days are long and the weather is cloudy but warm.  We prepare to leave for Cannon Beach, to visit our third state in as many weekends.