http://www.portlandmercury.com Comments On: Portland Mercury en-us Copyright 2013 Portland Mercury. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Portland Mercury readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Portland Mercury. webmaster@portlandmercury.com (Portland Mercury Webmaster) Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Franklin Chillano Broosevelt]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 17:41:52 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by eprophet]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 17:39:25 -0700 Portland Mercury
As much as the corporate lobbyists for fluoridation would have you believe the opposite, and have no facts to support their sales pitch, Portland is following the global anti-fluoridation trend -- and is leading the way for America, as we do on most political issues.

Even after massive outspending by the pro-fluoride marketing manipulators, only a minority of Portlandites were fooled. This is why Portland is so excellent, informed, and intelligent compared to most of America.

And if you don't like it, maybe you should consider the possibility that a) you've been duped by pseudoscientific marketing hacks, and b) maybe this isn't the town for you, and you should leave.
Posted by STFUAndLearnCriticalThinking]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 17:29:40 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by TSW]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 17:21:18 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by PdxPhoenix]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:15 -0700 Portland Mercury
Also, 1/3 of the US rejects fluoridation -- yet another crucial fact that the manipulators at the Mercury didn't mention.

Now we just have to convince the remaining 5% minority of "kooks" and "fearmongers" and "conspiracy theorists" (in the polite words of The Mercury's frantically pro-fluoride reporting) to follow the saner 95% (including Europe, Japan, Portland, and 1/3 of the US) in rejecting toxic fluoride.

Portland officially kicks ass. And if you think we're stupid, that's just because you're a pseudoscientific hack with no critical thinking skills, and should move elsewhere.

And take your asinine pro-fluoride propaganda with you.
Posted by STFUAndLearnCriticalThinking]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:52:35 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by lithell]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:41:15 -0700 Portland Mercury
Gross.
Posted by buddy]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:39:36 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by lithell]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:28:41 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Ian Karmel]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:18:08 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Süpër Chüñdy]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 16:07:22 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by mediocre]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:48:32 -0700 Portland Mercury
Look, much to my dismay, I had a certain important death and perpetrator in Harry Potter spoiled for me. And I'm still very much a Harry Potter fan and very much enjoyed the book. But I was robbed of that "Is this really going to happen?!" moment, you know, that moment where you get chills and put the book down just to savor the moment and let the anticipation build. And I guess that's what it boils down to. Anticipation, why would we rob ourselves of this very important aspect of storytelling? Would Christmas morning be half as exciting if all the presents were wrapped in cellophane?

And as a filmmaker myself, I feel it's almost disrespectful to the creative team behind a movie who have spent (hopefully) a considerable amount of time fine tuning the reveals of their movie, to just not care and actively seek out spoilers.

I mean, if the "what" is so unimportant that it doesn't matter if we know the outcome of a story before watching/reading/hearing it, why do we even both coming up with new stories? Let's just keep pumping out remakes.
Posted by Cameron Harrison]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:47:57 -0700 Portland Mercury
On the other hand, I don't know of any movies / shows that have been improved by knowing the spoiler. So if there's potential downside of telling people what's going to happen, and there's no conceivable upside, why would you do it?
Posted by Stu]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:44:46 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Alexjon]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:34:40 -0700 Portland Mercury
10yrs. later while being promoted to insurance management, a new background check found the conviction and he was fired.

He still has to report as a sex offender too. Lame.
Posted by LokNaar]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:29:57 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Blabby]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:25:17 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Brenda Adams]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:23:48 -0700 Portland Mercury
I basically feel the same as you but I'm far less articulate.

The only "spoiler" I can't deal with is when a movie is made out of a book I love (say, The Golden Compass) and I have to go out of my way to avoid everything associated with the film version. I don't want those images to replace the wonderful ones I have in my head, that I experienced reading the book. Because they really do seem to take over in your brain -- Frodo will always be Elijah Woods now.
Posted by cat & beard]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:21:37 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Blabby]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:21:35 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Denis C. Theriault]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:18:17 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by clayton.wong]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:14:57 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by Senator Pancake]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:10:00 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 15:05:20 -0700 Portland Mercury Posted by The Showstopper]]> Fri, 24 May 2013 14:53:53 -0700 Portland Mercury