Washington's thriving coffee porn industry is starting to piss off the neighbors. If an ordinary sense of shame doesn't prevent people from driving to a place where a half-naked woman serves you coffee, the police are about to try... » 1/28/14 6:29pm 1/28/14 6:29pm

Famously tangerine-faced House Speaker John Boehner doesn't live in Washington year-round; he rents. And his landlord is a lobbyist for a tanning bed company because God loves you very, very much and wants you to have a joyous holiday season of rueful ironic chortling. » 12/18/13 1:45pm 12/18/13 1:45pm

As of today, gay marriage has been legal in Washington state for exactly one year. Has Seattle morphed into an Orwellian dystopia where weeping heterosexual couples are broken up and reassigned to same-sex partners? Are weddings now an underground affair, conducted under the cover of darkness? Let's check in. » 12/06/13 11:00am 12/06/13 11:00am

Conservatives can't seem to be able to get their story straight on the government shutdown — some are claiming it's No Big Deal, while others are wringing their hands and wailing that it's the Obamapocalypse and that soon we'll all be personally bludgeoned to a pulp by bureaucrats wielding death panels. Both groups are … » 10/02/13 4:30pm 10/02/13 4:30pm

A reproductive rights-related bill that wouldn't shut down every Planned Parenthood clinic in the state, make women wait approximately 10,000 years to get an abortion or otherwise effectively overturn Roe v. Wade miraculously passed the Washington State House and might very well pass the Senate. It's almost as if the… » 4/02/13 10:25am 4/02/13 10:25am

The Republican Party might as well rename itself The Sausage Party. After a series of very important meetings, House of Representatives' majority party has chosen the legislators who will occupy the all-important roles of committee chairs during the next session. And, to the surprise of no one, every person they picked … » 11/28/12 11:50am 11/28/12 11:50am

John Koster, a Washington state GOP House Candidate, says, "the rape thing" does not excuse abortions. Once again, the RAPE THING DOES NOT EXCUSE ABORTIONS. » 10/31/12 9:13pm 10/31/12 9:13pm

Ever since Obama came out in support of same-sex marriage — which he adorably spun as an adorable lesson he learned from his adorable daughters — and called the Department of Justice off defending DOMA, he's been on his gay-marriage game. Which is great, he damn well should be. » 10/25/12 11:45pm 10/25/12 11:45pm

In November, voters in Washington will decide whether or not gay marriage should be legal in the state. Groups on both sides are revving up for a heated battle ("Let people who love each other do what they want!" vs. "But, ew!") but a new ad puts the rhetoric in a plain, difficult to argue with, and straightforward way. A … » 8/06/12 4:20pm 8/06/12 4:20pm

Whooping cough sounds like a pretty retro illness to come down with, but it's turning out to be a very modern problem. Even though we've had a vaccine for it since 1940, there's been an outbreak recently of the disease. There have been hundreds of cases reported in nine states. Washington state alone has 1,484 cases… » 5/15/12 9:45pm 5/15/12 9:45pm

Being famous and struggling with infertility has got to be hard, but at least when you're a celebrity human, you can more or less keep the details of your experience to yourself. That's not the case for celebrity pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, who have lived together at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., for 10… » 4/30/12 9:00pm 4/30/12 9:00pm

Oh, no big deal. It's only an itty bitty leopard cub getting a casual scratch and kicking his little leg. It definitely will not make you want to run to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington and steal this endangered clouded leopard baby so that you can cuddle with him for the rest of your life. » 4/10/12 11:15pm 4/10/12 11:15pm

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 14: Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, arrives for a lunch hosted in honor of Prime Minister David Cameron at the State Department on March 14, 2012 in Washington, DC. Cameron is on an official visit to Washington, where President Obama will host him at a State Dinner tonight.… » 3/14/12 10:30pm 3/14/12 10:30pm

WASHINGTON, DC: (L to R) U.S. First lady Michelle Obama and Samantha Cameron, wife of British Prime Minister David Cameron, are given a tour of an Olympics-themed event with area school children by American decathlete and Olympic gold-medal winner Dan O'Brien at American University March 13, 2012 in Washington, DC.… » 3/13/12 10:30pm 3/13/12 10:30pm

And now, some decidedly unterrible news in the ongoing gentleman's forum occurring inside America's ladyparts. A bill making its way through the Washington state legislature would require insurers to cover abortion services, like it would any other medical procedure. » 2/27/12 11:30am 2/27/12 11:30am

There's been yet another setback in the battle over access to contraception. A federal judge today ruled that Washington state cannot require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives to customers if doing so goes against their religious beliefs. Judge Ronald B. Leighton said the regulation that required… » 2/23/12 11:55pm 2/23/12 11:55pm