“May you live in interesting times”

It hasn’t been the best year for my adopted home (I wonder if they ever got the paperwork?).  Everyone is taking their licks, but the Emerald City seems to have stumbled across a particularly nasty strain of the current downturn.

Sonics leave town

Mariners break record for most losses

Seahawks go 4 – 12

Huskies lay a huge egg

Washington Mutual goes under

Snowstorm paralyzes city

Massive Floods

and now

The Seattle PI is (likely) going to close down

It guess it could be worse.  We could be Detroit.