President-elect Rafael Correa appointed seven women to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including Ecuador's first female defense minister, saying he wanted to promote gender equality in his South American nation.

1. using a 3/16" hex head (in retrospect, it's a bit wobbly at 3/16", so it's probably the next bigger metric size), remove the four screws that hold the back of the chair to the seat
2. Using a T-27 star drive head and a bit of WD-40, remove the two screws, one per arm, that hold the arms on.
3. Put the back back on with the four hex screws

Therefore, here is my recommended path forward:

Let's ask the voters of Seattle. I will accept their vote and ask legislative and City leaders to do the same.

1. Will it be a cut and cover tunnel or an elevated structure?
2. Are the Seattle voter's willing to accept the additional cost of the tunnel?
3. The public discourse and educational value associated with a public vote is a powerful tool to help City residents lead us all past the stalemate. Ultimately [blah blah blah]

So the Governor's findings are, don't ask me, let's ask the voters. And nobody proofread the findings so they have a misplaced apostrophe in a key sentence. For this we elect officials and pay their salaries?

In case you care, my own preference is to remove the current viaduct and put in a park. The tens of thousands of daily drivers can find other routes. Give them enough warning and they'll find other jobs and other housing that don't require driving through downtown each way for their daily commute. And you know what would have helped? A friggin' monorail over the same route, which even after the cost overruns that led to its cancellation, was still only half as expensive as the (pre-overrun pricetag for the) cheaper viaduct replacement option.

(This post's title originally bungled pluralization, by reading "Governer of Washington ('s staff) bungle punctuation". It has been corrected since publication)

(A year later, noticing this page was surprisingly high in google results for "Governer of Washington, I realized that governor was mis-spelled. People in glass houses ... need a lot of transparent spackle.)

Sen. Robert Byrd has built a reputation in Congress and in West Virginia using special interest funding to bring federal jobs and money home, but the king of pork said he's willing to give up his projects for 2007 to find a way out of the "fiscal chaos" left by the outgoing Republican-led Congress. —Gannett News Service

Between this and not giving an impeached judge a committee chairmanship, this batch of Democrats is failing to completely suck. This is very disorienting.