Dreaming of lime gerbils in a cheese sauce

um, ya, we have 2 of those (they replaced the king dome - which we aren't done paying for yet - with a foobah and a basebaaaaa thing). The sonics wanted something like $200M in "renovations" to the arena they use (at tax payer expense, of course). This entire industry of making tax payers pay for private businesses' places of work really pisses me off.

Evidently it pisses a lot of people in Seattle off, though. We passed a voter initiative last year. They're not allowed to do sporting arena stuff unless we can get back the same level of interest as we'd get on some high-yield bond or other good investment. I don't think Seattle will be (legally) paying for another sporting complex. Of course, the asshats who own the sonics immediately tried to get the _state_ to pay for their arena (either the one in Seattle or another one in King County). The state said no. Yay!

Now if they'd just GTF out of town once and for all....