Seattle Heats Up
It’s HOT in Seattle. Today’s high will be in the nineties again, and tomorrow’s high is projected to climb over one hundred degrees. We Seattleites are not used to extended hot, dry spells. Most people don’t have air conditioning in their homes, because it’s not something that would get much use. I would have appreciated having it last night though, and I’ll wish I had an air conditioner tonight.
Because this isn’t really a weather blog, I must have some other point to make. Oh yeah… I watched Do the Right Thing last week. That is a movie that I highly recommend. The movie takes place on a very hot day in Brooklyn, and as the day gets hotter and hotter, race relations heat up.
Race relations has been one of the ongoing topics of fervent discussion since Henry Louis Gates was arrested for being agitated in his own home. So maybe if you are so inclined, what you ought to do today is read Eugene Robinson’s column and then later this evening go find a cool spot in your house to watch Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing.