Brewed More Articles . . . Such travails might occasion hand-wringing or a long hard look in the mirror. Yet here in Seattle the sum of these events does not seem particularly telling. There is such a thing as a bad luck streak, and we seem to be having one. The recent accumulation of afflictions seems less a harbinger of the city's future than a set of troubling coincidences.
Life goes on as usual.
The mayor, Paul Schell, makes dismayed pronouncements, sounding, as always, like Eeyore. Taking inventory of Seattle's damaged goods in recent weeks, it seemed somehow appropriate to point out how our community spirit and dauntlessness were not among them. The hard rain was a good rain. Something we are all used to taking in stride. And yet, as every Seattlleite knows, when it rains, it pours.