GOOD MORNING, DENIS! HOW ARE YOU!?? I FIND YOUR CYNACISM ON THE KMART STORY TO BE MISPLACED. THESE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTENTIONALLY TRYING TO MAKE THE LIVES OF PEOPLE BETTER (AND IN A MEANINGFUL, PERSONAL WAY FOR POOR CHILDREN). AND THEY'RE DOING IT ANONYMOUSLY AND WITHOUT ASKING FOR THANKS.

HERE'S THE CYNACISM YOU COULD HAVE USED: IT WILL BE OPTIONED INTO THE MOVIE "PAY IT FORWARD 2: ELETRIC GIFTALOO"

If I were a cynic I'd think that Graham was misspelling "cynicism" just to mess with our heads.

I never got to do anything like that in high school! Mom always said we had to keep it a super super secret.

How the hell does payroll tax equate to oil pipeline?

Incesticide was very common in ancient civilizations. Evrybody was fucking their cousin. Then it evolved and had an unorthodox overturn when the Blood and Crips took over.

The video is like an antichristian "thing" going on right?

I generally found Hitchens to be pretty irritating and unbelievably arrogant, but damn it all if he wasn't smart as hell and thought-provoking.

The OLCC change is designed in response to the WA vote. To me it looks like they're changing the rules in order to dissuade a large entity from funding a campaign to, effectively, end the OLCC.

That said, I completely support the OLCC. They're great for Oregon on many of levels. We have an excellent selection of Oregon produced liquor in large part due to OLCC acting as distributor and insuring price equality.

Fuck the OLCC! Have you been to other states where they have liquor stores the size of fucking Wal-Mart? The prices up here are stupid high! The ammount of profit made off those prices are stupid low. Ask your neighborhood liquor store operator. They are getting fucked by the OLCC.

@9, I understand how it works. And I have a lot of sympathy for the situation. However, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives considering the alternative. Shutting down the OLCC without a viable distribution alternative would price-out micro-distilleries, start-ups and other actors that have a net-benefit to our local industry.

And regarding the price issue, I'm just not convinced that getting hyper-cheap macro-distilled spirits at Costco is a good thing.

Also consider Oregon's access to boutique liquors due to knowledgable liquor store staff. Absent OLCC, and with liquor located at Safeway, these liquor stores would die off in time. And so would the benefit of having long conversations about whiskey with people who know what they're talking about.

I support the OLCC too, and not just because my father is one of those people-you-talk-to at the liquor store counter. Of course a lot about Oregon's liquor laws need to be changed -- there's a lot of ridiculous nanny nonsense. But let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater (and hand a huge payoff to Costco in the process). The OLCC benefits the state, provides jobs, and sustains a large number of well-stocked liquor stores with a wide variety of goods and a knowledgeable staff that you aren't going to find at Safeway.

@alt-162: you obviously didn't knew about the Crips and Bloods taking over.

hey, dude with the weird N thing, why dont you respond or leave a registered comment uh?