Go for the gold

Swifter, higher, stronger, half-caff: The Marysville-Tulalip Chamber of Commerce has scheduled a seminar on how businesses can take advantage of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, B.C.

Here's our idea for making a few bucks this February: Mount an espresso stand on a Vespa and sell coffee to all the people waiting in line at the border in Blaine.

The wheels on the bus go round and round and round and round: Hundreds of students in schools in Snohomish County are transferring out of their neighborhood schools to schools with better test scores, even if it means a morning commute of an hour or more.

Of course, it may not be that one school is better than any other, just that the kids now have an extra hour each morning to get their homework done.

Go ahead, make my day: Clint Eastwood recently was made a commander in the French Legion of Honor during a ceremony in Paris.

At one point during the ceremony, camera flashes caused Eastwood to squint in the direction of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Startled, Sarkozy immediately surrendered to the actor and director.