The Oregon Legislature is getting ready to spend the next several months talking about marijuana. A lot. NO SERIOUSLY. A LOT. And so, no surprises then that marijuana advocacy group NORML has seen fit to start an Oregon chapter, fronted by one of the louder figures in last year’s legalization push: radio host Russ Belville.
Portland’s still wrestling with the news that former Mayor Sam Adams is all but leaving for Washington, DC. The Oregonian‘s Brad Schmidt points out just how big of a deal Adams’ new global climate change lobbying gig really is—and how the change of scenery might someday help Adams make a political comeback.
“How did you find me?” Court documents show how cops tracked down a Bellevue man accused of checking into the Lloyd Center Doubletree after Christmas and choking to death a woman believed to be working as an escort.
Boko Haram’s massacre of thousands of Nigerian villagers really isn’t that hard to notice. Its aftermath is practically visible from space.
Some gun-toters in Texas staged a paintball re-creation of the Charlie Hebdo massacre to see how things might have gone if only all those journalists had been armed. The only time they didn’t all die was when they immediately ran away.
You can finally start planning your (legal/non-religious) Cuban vacation, if you haven’t already.
Rupert Murdoch, who owns a certain network that often confuses itself for the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, is breaking up with Mitt Romney ahead of 2016.
A young white man from Ohio wound up telling an FBI informant about his plans, reportedly in sympathy with the Islamic State, to attack the US Capitol with pipe bombs and a rifle.
Desperation in North Korea has grown so bad, and border incursions into China for food and money have grown so frequent, that Chinese villagers are organizing posses to police their stuff.
Hey hey hey! One of the dozens of rape allegations against Bill Cosby is so recent that it might actually lead to a criminal investigation… and charges.
Has your iPhone’s email app changed your name to “Holidays in the United States”?
Target’s quitting Canada. I GUESS THEY MISSED THEIR MARK! AHAHAHA. HA.
In case your Facebook/Twitter/whatever hasn’t displayed all possible permutations of Oscar nomination complaints yet, here’s the list.
One of the last surviving Marlboro Men has died. He was a rancher from Wyoming. He was 85. His mustache (assuming he had one) was ageless.
MEANWHILE, HIS RUGGED LEGEND DRAGS ON AND ON. BECAUSE “THE GOVERNMENT AND SMOKEPOLICE CAN KISS MY BUTT.”
I think it would be wayyy too soon to even start talking about a political comeback for Adams.
Most sensible people haven’t forgot him cruising the teenager, even though he was given seemingly a free pass on this by this publication simply because he is gay.
Actually the linked article says the paintball recreation had only one armed journalist, not all of them.