By Jon Bauer
Herald staff
Who are we kidding? If we had gotten that “Jeopardy” question, yeah, would would have answered Everett, but we would have failed to phrase it in the form of a question, earning only a pitying look from Trebek.
Alex, we’ll take the week that wasn’t for $100:
No hard feelings, Howie: In a new book, former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, who is considering a White House run as an independent, apologized to fans of the Seattle SuperSonics for selling the NBA team in 2006 to an out-of-town ownership group who moved it to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Schultz compared the guilt over the sale to “a stake through my heart.”
Howard, if you run as an independent, split the Democratic vote and give President Trump a second term, more than just Sonics fans are going to want to help you with that stake.
Alex, I’ll take Municipal Trash Talk for $1,000: Everett had a few moments of game-show fame last week when it showed up as a “question” in the quiz show “Jeopardy.” “This seaport about 25 miles north of Seattle is home to aircraft and technology industries, like Boeing,” read host Alex Trebek from the Geograph’E’ category. The correct answer — “What is Everett?” — earned a contestant $2,000.
Edmonds, you don’t know how close you came to making the cut with your clue: “This seaport about 17 miles north of Seattle is home to retirees from Boeing.”
You think you’re so smart, don’t you, Intelligence? President Trump lashed out against his intelligence chiefs, disputing their testimony before Congress that North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons and that Iran continues to abide by the terms of the nuclear agreement that Trump abandoned. “Perhaps Intelligence should go back to school!” Trump tweeted.
“We never left,” answered Intelligence. “Perhaps you’d like to join us.”
It’s a prototype, Mr. President: With the government shutdown at least suspended until mid-February while Congress and the White House negotiation border security and President Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion in wall funding, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has invited the president to make his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Feb. 5.
As a further concession to the president, Pelosi will have a 30-foot high wall installed between the dais and members of Congress.
What other shapes you got? Musician and producer Quincy Jones, who began his interest in music in Bremerton, and went on to produce Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and Michael Jackson, has given his blessing for the city to build a residential and commercial development with a music venue and use his name for the project: Quincy Square.
Well deserved, but can we work on the “Square” part of the name?
Repent, America, while you still can: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed during an interview with Christian Broadcasting Network News that God “wanted Donald Trump to become president.” She continued: “And that’s why he’s there.”
CBN was, of course, the natural place to make this statement, as CBN televangelist Pat Robertson has also made clear that God, leading up to His choice of Trump, has brought His wrath down on America in the form of hurricanes and other disasters.
Jon Bauer: jbauer@heraldnet.com.
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