Slog AM: Diesel Hits Record High, the Polls Are Lying to You, but the Alchemists Are Not, and a Canadian University Will Cut Some, but Not All, Financial Ties to Hitler

Slog AM: Diesel Hits Record High, the Polls Are Lying to You, but the Alchemists Are Not, and a Canadian University Will Cut Some, but Not All, Financial Ties to Hitler

Seattle’s rich people fucked themselves over for decades, and now you have to pay for it: With city funding, a number of Seattle’s wealthier white communities buried their power lines under the sidewalk decades ago so they could look more like the suburbs. They did a bad job of it, and now the power cables break so often that Seattle is becoming known for bad power outages, and taxpayers are on the hook to dig everything up and fix it, the Seatt…