I'm an unrepentant non-tipper. I refuse to tip here in the Washington Soviet...

I'm an unrepentant non-tipper. I refuse to tip here in the Washington Soviet where the insane minimum wage law means the lowest pay a server, or anyone else will get... $17.13 per hour this year, and $17.73 next year. 

In some areas of the state, it's even more insane, with minimum wage in Seattle at $21.30 per hour, and Tukwila at $21.85 per hour.

What an employee makes is between them and their employer. Once I pay the check, or buy the tire, or pay anyone working for a business of any kind the bill, my responsibility/obligation is over, PARTICULARLY here where servers are horrifically overpaid as it is.

No one forces anyone to work for anything. If you don't like what the jobs pays where you work, you have the freedom to quit and go work somewhere else.

If you lack job skills that are in demand, then it's up to you to acquire those kills to make you more marketable.

But don't expect me to pick up the slack if you believe you're underpaid for the 5 minutes you spent taking my order and bringing that order to me, etc.

And remember, those of you coming at me for this decision get service from a variety of service workers YOU don't tip.

Tipping culture has become insane. Everything from self-service to drive throughs try to scam you for tips and I simply refuse to play.

Brown hires outside, pro-trans legal firm to take the fall on I-638 for losing so he won't have to

Bowing to the obvious conflict of interest, Nick Brown, Washington Attorney General has hired an outside law firm to defend I-638 in court.

The problem?

They're no different than Brown is, i.e., the firm has rabidly defended so-called "trans rights" to invade actual women's spaces. The firm, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, has worked with the ACLU to overturn restrictions in similar litigation.

A search failed to turn up a single instance where they ever defended anyone against the spector of so-called "trans rights." So, while Brown himself can't roll over and play dead in front of the courts with totally bogus "representation," he's farmed out the gig to another firm with a history of representing those who want the efforts outlined in I-638 overturned.

Simply stated, their history of representation tends to show they, too have a conflict and they, too, will roll over and play dead to see this thing lose while we waste possibly millions on additional legal fees to pay a firm to take a dive for Brown.

They obviously must be removed due to their equally obvious conflict of interest, no different than Brown's own.