News Item: The online site, The Daily Beast, has rated the stretch of I-405 between SR 520 and Coal Creek Parkway as the eighth worst congestion in the nation.

Comment: We’re outraged! We thought we were #1.

News Item: Costco is offering a $1.6 million diamond ring for your bride-to-be.

Comment. Thank goodness this is Costco. The price is only $1 million.

News Item: Washington lawmakers have voted to move the state’s primary election two weeks earlier.

Comment: Oh, swell. Two more weeks of political commercials on TV.