We're resuming it this year, as a vehicle for asserting a few points I strongly believe. Corny is just all right with me. That's for people who can't handle real corny. Working-class people, and their cultural expressions, are not necessarily fascist. To me, the parade's an important legacy of an older Seattle in which such pretentious elitism was simply not done.
Hydroplanes are all-time cool.
Its monopolization most years by the Budweiser-sponsored Bernie Little crew. Ignorance of your culture is not considered cool. Go to the hydros this year. Don't treat them like your inferiors, because they're not. Become part of the celebration.