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I love the Seattle media. Here's a story running right now online:

Nine charged in sex-trafficking ring
SEATTLE -- Nine people were arrested Thursday following a two-year investigation into an international sex-trafficking ring.

And here's the photo running in the column next to it:

Still Summer

I hate - hate I say - that 'back to school' ads begin in July. It's like Christmas advertising starting the day after Halloween. Advertisers reminding us of our mortality, stealing the days and weeks of our lives. Because, after all, we live in our perceptions of time. Not in the time itself.

It's not a very zen life, but we're, by and large, not buddhists.

It's been too busy for me this summer with new business and other stuff, and that's just fine. But I need to find that perfect summer moment. (Flying the float plane around Canada for five days wasn't bad, but I wasn't ready to make it the Perfect Summer Moment.)

We're looking at a few days of low-70s temperatures here in Seattle, and I sense people looking ahead to fall. Back to school sales. The LLBean fall catalog came - what? - three weeks ago? Knock it off. We've got two months of great weather yet. Listen to me. Stop looking at your watch.

I'm not done with summer yet, dammit.

kinda over the top

If the ear-splitting, oil burning, speed freaking Blue Angels display doesn't incite our young to race to recruiters to go to other countries and kill foreigners, I don't know what will.

The whole thing this year felt a little tone-deaf to me for the first time. A lot of people are getting queasy about military conflict. And there were lots of people - at least in the crowds that I was near this weekend - asking, "is this a good use of thousands of gallons of fuel?" Naive, but it's what they're asking.

I wish blogger did video. This pic will have to do.