The Spovangelist

You have 14 days to return that ballot sitting on the counter. Right. That one. In place of the usual barrage of issues and candidates you may or may not even recognize, this special election ballot asks only that you fill in one bubble: ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on a replacement to the expiring District 81 [...]

After much debate, The Spovangelist decided to stay live to day (as opposed to blacking out in solidarity of the SOPA/PIPA protests) Our decision to stay live revolves mostly aroung this gif. and the need to spread it far and wide through the intertubes. Because there is nothing the world loves more than gifs, cats [...]

National news publications rarely hit up our neighborhood, but when they do, it’s usually embarrassing. This last year, it’s been former SPD officer Karl Thompson [theoretically] getting time for beating an innocent, mentally handicapped man to death, and some white supremacist prick trying to blow up our annual MLK day parade. What usually doesn’t make [...]

Updated: 5:32pm 1/12/2012 The Inlander asked five people on the street if they had seen prejudice and/or racisim in the Northwest in their 1/12/2012 issue. I can’t help but laugh that they chose a panel of only the majority race and excluding entirely the minority. The weirdest thing about this particular On the Street section is that [...]

The State House of Representatives will be hosting a hearing on a couple of important bills involving your soul, and your direct control over it. Just kidding. They are two bills that make voting more accessible to Washington voters. Eric Holder, the United States Attorney General, recently stated that voter registration is an outdated and artificial [...]