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A Meditation on the Declaration of Independence
Max Reif lays down some thoughts on the spirit of ’76.
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Research Shows Internet Shutdowns and State Violence Go Hand in Hand in Syria
Recent research by Anita Gohdes, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Mannheim, suggests that Internet shutdowns are becoming part of a toolkit for more violent repression. Sarah Myers West reports.
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Lower the US Flag on July 4th! (Or: I’ll Take Down My Flag, When You Take Down Yours)
Take down the Confederate Flag? Why stop there? Gary Corseri drops it.
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Vicious Little Thing
That Cole Hornaday just keeps cranking it out. Another chapter of his novel, The Ghost and The Owl Wife, bows today in the Star. You should read it.
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Wetro Lan Sues Entire Network Security Industry With Expired Garbage Patent
A patent for a non-firewall firewall that actually makes your system dumber? So good that a patent troll bought it and now you might, too. Daniel Nazer writes.
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Hypnogogia, Community and the Night: The Cabiri’s Ezid
Thoughts on the Cabiri’s production of Ezid and contemporary mythmaking.
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The Escape
A getaway weekend in the country doesn’t go as planned. Fiction by William Thomas Sherman.
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Big Choices, Fake Storefronts: Seattle Musical Theatre’s 1776
What if Seattle’s theater community is actually a Potemkin village? Omar Willey muses on Seattle Musical Theatre’s latest production.
