Robots writing resumes

How’s that robot’s fastball? Robots are becoming capable of handling more of the tasks that once belonged to humans. A study suggests that 47 percent of all U.S. jobs are at risk of being lost to computers and robots, including jobs making deliveries, milking cows and writing sports stories.

We’re doubtful sports reporters can be replaced. We don’t think computer code can be written that would convince a robot to dare ask Seattle Mariner Manager Lloyd McClendon why his relief pitchers keep blowing leads.

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Oklahoma, not OK: Unless the Oklahoma City Zoo offers to help out, it will have cost Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo $141,000 to move its two elephants to the Oklahoma zoo.

At least when Clayton Bennett spirited the Seattle SuperSonics off to Oklahoma City, he didn’t make us pay for Kevin Durant’s stay at Travelodges along the way.

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Is nothing sacred? The Web Monkey blog at HeraldNet.com is shocked — shocked, I tell you — that its friendly little online poll on the upcoming county executive race was the victim of cheating by partisans, calling into the question the accuracy of its results.

A bit of advice for our younger blog brother: We find that surveys are less open to political shenanigans if you just make up the results yourself.

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