"10x fucking better"? "10x"?? No, I'd say it's "7x" better at best. Okay... maybe... MAYBE "8x". But "10x"??

PFFFSHHT!

If you remove any article written by a fellow with the last name Henriksen it immediately decreases to a scant 3X better.

This guy's going to fucking flip when his cousin shows him the Onion.

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I think your comment is 6 and three quarters X better than mine.

I even looked up his last name to make sure I spelled it correctly!

Anon is correct. Hell, even a muddy seawater enema is 10x Fucking Better than the Mercury.

BUT WE MAKE UP FOR IT IN COMMENT SECTION TEAM SPIRIT.

Well my dad could beat up your dad!

THE STRANGER IS 10X BETTER AT FUCKING THAN YOU.

Sounds like a jilted lover.

Let's take a little look:

http://www.thestranger.com

I don't know. Looks to me like the Stranger uses the same drunk webslave as the Portland Mercury.

The only reason The Stranger is better than the Mercury is Kelly O.

Yawn.

I'm not going over to the Seattle copy cat I anon, no matter how many stupid posts you post about this. But because the merc rules and; they dont give a fuck.. Merc staff probably wrote this. Bet.

Quack quack curse word quack

I generally like what the Mercury writes, with the exception of the features. Fucking garbage in there. Most part-time mommy bloggers could write something more susbstantive, yet the Merc goes to press with creative writing class drivel like "The Types Of People That There Are" or whatever that shitfest was from a few years ago. Admittedly I don't bother picking up a copy, because all the articles I DO care to read are just recycled from Blogtown.

I didn't think Matt Davis or Sarah Mirk were all that great. Adequate, perhaps, but meh. The Merc's personality is always weirdly divided between snarky culture bullshit rag and "we care too much" sophomoric poltics. Can't decide if it wants to be the Onion or the Village Voice or Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer. Blergh, my expectations have been pretty low since the first time I laid eyes on a copy.

Let's be honest Chunty, the Mercury isn't fit to cook the frozen gnocchi of the Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer... The writing in that rag is just so......tasty.

Yeah butt

does Gum Alley town have wilLamETte weak? Donut think so

Damnit I, A, you were doing fine until you jumped to the conclusion that the trolls would bother defending the Mercury. Again, I defend ticket scalpers, but not the Merc. Note that we are lurking in the column NOT written by Mercury employees.

The only thing of any real journalistic merit ever presented by a Mercury franchise, was the work by Pulitzer prize-winning American investigative journalist, Gary Webb, in the 1996 "Dark Alliance" series of articles written for the San Jose Mercury News and later published as a book.

That's like yelling at Portland Monthly because Nylon is better. They're different. I recognize that they're owned by the same company, but they're different. And they both exist, and you can read the Stranger online, so.... be glad the Stranger is good and read it regularly?

This is like arguing over who has the better dollar menu.