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2008
Posted inMedia
Saltzman Wants Longer Secret List, Doesn’t Care About Racial Profiling
And he’s writing editorials for the Portland Tribune. The new police commissioner is a regular Che Guevara. Specifically, I will build on the success of the service coordination team pilot program at work now in downtown’s Old Town neighborhood. This program has focused on arresting chronic drug and drug-related property crime offenders, then holding them […]
Posted inSnowpocalypse!!
Look, All I’m Saying Is That It’s Not Totally Impossible, Is All.
The initiation of a Snowball Earth event would involve some initial cooling mechanism, followed by runaway cooling due to increasing ice accumulation. The initial cooling could be facilitated by an equatorial continental distribution, which would increase the Earth’s albedo near the equator, where most solar radiation is incident. This arrangement would also allow rapid, unchecked […]
Posted inSports
MLS2PDX: snow makes the turf grow
On the heels of last week’s Task Force meeting and a live blog where/when I tried my hand at actually being a reporter, got winked at by an important man in a nice suit, got called a homer and garnered the Mercury its first attention in the national soccer (blog) media (scroll down, it’s there. […]
Posted inHomo
Christopher Hitchens on Rick Warren
From Slate: As Barack Obama is gradually learning, his job is to be the president of all Americans at all times. If he likes, he can oppose the idea of marriage for Americans who are homosexual. That’s a policy question on which people may and will disagree. However, the man he has chosen to deliver […]
Posted inDrunk
Finally.
If only I’d had one of these on that fateful night at Porky’s in 2004… Now the iPod can answer the question: Am iDrunk? A new product called the iBreath turns Apple Inc.’s iPod into an alcohol breathalyzer. The $79 accessory plugs into the base of the iPod and functions like a field sobriety test. […]
Posted inPuppy
Today in Animal Abuse
In which a dog is forced to imitate Beyonce’s “Single Ladies” dance routine. Hey… if you liked it, then you should’a put a bone on it.
Posted inDrunk
December Boozy Goodness: More Warmth
I had the pleasure of drinking with Lance Mayhew last night, and I have to say he’s one of the most down to earth ‘mixologists” I’ve ever met: just as comfortable knocking back shots and beer in a dive bar as he is behind the bar of swanky eatery. The drinking session inspired me to […]
Posted inPolitics
Fighting Until the Last Breath (Or, “Don’t Hate!”)
Illinois Governor Ron Blagojevich speaks: This video, from Blagojevich’s first post-arrest press conference, is pretty amazing. He quotes Kipling (“Don’t give way to hating…”), he sounds like Nixon in moments, and he’s every bit as feisty and petulant as you’d imagine. (But no curse words, dammit!)
Posted inHomo
Andrew Sullivan on Rick Warren
Chill: I think Obama is different. I think the earnestness and sincerity of his campaign, and its generational force, have given us a chance for something new, and I fear that in responding too viscerally to the Warren choice, we may be throwing something very valuable away far too prematurely. There is no question that […]
Posted inFood and Drink
Solstice Farmers Market: Canceled
The last Portland Farmers Market of the season has been canceled, leaving some farmers holding a bag full of harvested veggies and no buyers. This has prompted one of the markets participating farms, Rainway Farm (4395 S.W. Minter Bridge Rd. Hillsboro), to drastically reduce prices: PotatoesRound $.75 per lb. German butterball, Yellow Finn, All blue, […]