There’s a free all-welcome election-night special at Town Hall Seattle tonight, so’s we can all bite-our-fingernails/celebrate/drown-our-sorrows in good company, and they asked me to prepare a short squiff on what I most wish for the next four years for the US and Seattle.

So I’ll present a Top Ten List, tongue only partially in cheek:

Number 10:  Justices Scalia and Thomas get an irresistible urge to write their memoirs, and resign from the Supreme Court.

Number 9:  Frank Gehry does a John Gault, tears down the Experience Music Project,* and puts up a building he can be proud of.

Number 8:  Citizens United spawns Corporations United, giving individuals the right to avoid taxes like most of the Fortune 500.

Number 7:  Seattle writer Rebecca Brown’s next book wins the Pulitzer Prize.

Number 6:  Medicare eligibility age is lowered ten years per year until we finally have Medicare For All.

Number 5:  Seattle stops obsessing about being a “world-class city” – the sign that it already is one.

Number 4:  All presidential candidates in 2016 are women.

Number 3:  We bring all our soldiers home – and keep them home.

Number 2:  Tim Eyman** moves out of state.  Or better, out of the country.

and in the realm of purest fantasy:

Number 1:  The Mariners*** win the pennant, the championship, and the series.

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What would your Top Ten be?

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*  Adulatory articles about Gehry never mention the Experience Music Project.  Rightly so.

** Tim Eyman’s flood of anti-tax ballot initiatives aim to hamper good government (and almost forced the Seattle Public Library to close down branches earlier this year).

*** Seattle’s baseball team nearly always ends up at the bottom of the league.  At least they have a beautiful stadium to do it in.  Go, Mariners!