Top of the News

Chosen and ranked by Crosscut editors. Click date for previous days.

Mouse over headline for description.

more top of the news

Advertisement

Advertisement


Most Commented

Crosscut articles of the past 10 days with the most reader comments.

The case for more rail transit
(123 comments)

Sound Transit showdown
(22 comments)

At the top floors, the high and mighty are in denial
(16 comments)

Little boxes, crammed together
(10 comments)

Our cultural amnesia
(9 comments)

More fun than Deliverance!
(7 comments)

Bus envy
(5 comments)

Helpful policy tips for Dino Rossi
(5 comments)

The geekiest arsonist
(4 comments)

Sausage Links, sex, satire, and rock 'n' roll edition
(3 comments)

Crosscut highlights


Jerry Springer's sea of troubles

Guests of today's show include Hamlet and Fortinbras.

Crosscut most recent


Teach both sides of the flat Earth!

Flat earth. It's really quite simple: A lot of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Oklahoma is OK: They have lots of Dale Chihuly glass!

Oil derricks in Oklahoma City. And they even have their own Underground. When the Seattle SuperSonics move to the Sooner State, they'll miss some things but not others. After a visit, our correspondent compares and contrasts.

The plague of the jocks

Jesus shoots a free-throw. It's the greatest story ever told. Well, OK, it's not. But it's one you'll be reading a lot about in coming days. It begins like this: In the reign of Gregory the XL, there was no joy in the Land of Sasquatch ...

Harvard finally gets its act together on gender studies

Harvard University. It had offered a mere 76 courses. Now with addition of "Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece" and 29 others, the curriculum is at last worthy.

Employee performance evaluations through the ages

The Kiss of Judas (fresco), by Giotto (1267-1337). These case studies might be instructive for employers of today. Examined here are the supervisor evaluations of employees Benedict Arnold, Judas Iscariot, and George Armstrong Custer.

The McCain-Clifford ticket

John McCain. No question that Sen. John McCain needs a humorist on his ticket, but some details remain to be worked out before I accept.

Sex and the City and me

Sex in the City. Geez, a guy tries to get in touch with a chick flick, and what does he get?

Investor class: Buy and behold

Northwest stocks. If you're lazy and stupid, you need our help.

Outsourcing is so yesterday, or last night, or whatever time it is in Bangalore

Call center. Nonsourcing is the way to go. And to ensure quality service, this article may be monitored for quality control or training purposes.

Sparing no expense to reduce that carbon footprint

Green Maserati. Flip Side: Consider hybrid leaf blowers, jet-pooling, and sustainability in choosing lawn-care workers.

Hillary Clinton, will you please go now!

Hillary Clinton. Flip Side: With apologies to Dr. Seuss and Maureen Dowd.

An alternative reality show

Golf ball and club. In The Real Husbands of Seattle, power and success come at high costs, but you might have to read between the lines ...

Which presidential candidate has a recipe for disaster?

Chocolate chip cookies. When the election starts to resemble a bake sale, it's time to look at the recipes.

John Anderson's Pennsylvania postmortem

Consecrate a Scandinavian-American in the spirit of Obama-mania and footlight a contradiction: the Audacity of Pessimism.

Whatshisname offers tips on whatchamacallit

The Thinker. You know, remembering stuff. When it comes to total recall, nobody matches our Mr. Elephant.

Get rich quick: Write poorly

Giving by Bill Clinton. Guess what best-selling author wrote this: "Almost everyone — regardless of income, available time, age, and skills — can do something useful for others and, in the process, strengthen the fabric of our shared humanity."

Not rich, not famous, but super smart!

NobelPeople. Introducing the new celebrities — Nobel laureates.

Secret to a happy marriage: 'Yes, dear'

Married couple. Our humorist explains why active listening is overrated.

This just in: Boomers ruined America

On Monday night I went to see Brett Morgen's Chicago 10, an animated/snatches-of-newsreel documentary on the 1968 Democratic National Convention riots and subsequent Chicago Seven conspiracy trial (the filmmaker rounded the seven up to ten to include attorneys Bill Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass as well as Black Panther leader Bobby Seale).

1 2 3 4 Next 
RSS FEED

Flip Side is Crosscut's humor department. We offer our own writers and links to other articles we find funny.

Our featured writer, Steve Clifford, lived a previous unhumorous life as CEO of King Broadcasting and once played a role in saving New York City from bankruptcy.

Other media

Advertisement
Mossback » Channeled scablands.

More fun than Deliverance!

Spend your summer vacation in Eastern Washington, an exotic locale where lakes are slippery, the Scablands surprising, and wheat farmers are smashing stuff for fun.

RFK Jr.'s plot to destroy the planet

Our cultural amnesia

Arts Beat »

Olympia songwriter Kimya Dawson has her eye on Sesame Street

The indie musician who rose to prominence with the movie Juno is otherwise sticking to her modest lifestyle.

The executive director of PONCHO is fired

Tobias Wolff reflects on his upbringing by a brutal stepfather

Advertisement
Business / Technology »

Are WaMu shareholders about to get another haircut?

Earnings report is due next Tuesday, and it may require sale of more equity, at a discount, to cover expected losses.

Seattle's dailies and a union get down to it

My day with the ranchers

Advertisement
Flip Side »

Editorial cartoonists join the endangered list at newspapers

Ranks are thinning as papers cut costs and shift to syndicated cartoons. Seattle P-I's David Horsey also laments Bush fatigue: "there was not anything particularly funny or clever left to say about this guy being incompetent or disastrous."

David Horsey replies with McCain cartoon spoofing New Yorker cover

Jerry Springer's sea of troubles

Advertisement
Sign up for Crosscut's free weekday newsletter e-mail.
About Crosscut
Advertising Info
Crosscut's list of RSS feeds.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


About Crosscut »
Crosscut Seattle is an online newspaper for the Pacific Northwest, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and British Columbia. It's a guide to local and regional news, a place to report and discuss news, and a platform for new tools to convey news.

• More about Crosscut

Contact Crosscut

Tools

Sign up for Crosscut's daily newsletter
About Crosscut
Advertising Info
Crosscut's list of RSS feeds.
Advertisement