Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office LAST UPDATE ON THIS 5:30 pm: Bystanders cheered when Ditto was taken into custody, according to the full police report on the incident. Read it here [PDF]. ORIGINAL STORY: Beth Ditto has been convicted of disorderly conduct, following an incident this weekend where the Gossip singer drunkenly held up traffic on Mississippi […]
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Beth Ditto Didn’t Show Up At Her Arraignment, But Her Lawyer Did
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office Beth Ditto—real name Mary Beth Patterson—the Gossip singer arrested over the weekend on suspicion of disorderly conduct decided against personally attending her arraignment hearing this morning. In Ditto’s place was her lawyer, Thomas Coan, who handed Multnomah County Judge Steven Todd a written statement from his client. The statement was not […]
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Say What You Will About Meth Heads—They’re Industrious
As Nathan briefly mentioned in Good Morning News, a fugitive holed up in a North Portland Travelodge found himself in a three-hour motel room standoff with cops last night. According to the latest reports from the PPB, the suspect was 34-year-old James David Tautfest who was wanted by Federal Marshals for identity theft, forgery and […]
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ALERT: Do Not Buy Your Next Bat’leth from This Man
To say nothing of the Sword of Valen. WANTED Not pictured: a flute Spotted last night at a bar in SE Portland. Thanks to Mark for the heads up.
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Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa
On February 4, HBO premiered Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a brilliant and infuriating documentary exploring the epidemic of priestly sex abuse at a Milwaukee’s St. John’s School for the Deaf in the ’60s, and drawing damning conclusions about the conspiracy of silence mandated by the Vatican. Here’s the […]
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L.A. Times Reports Cops in Shootout with Fugitive Ex-Cop Dorner
After days on the run, and a manhunt that included L.A. cops mistakenly shooting at a vehicle that looked like the one driven by the suspect, the L.A. Times is reporting that fugitive ex-cop Christopher Dorner was in an alleged shoot-out with Big Bear officers this afternoon. The shooting occurred after Dorner burglarized a home, […]
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Hitchhiker Kills Someone with an Ax; Proclaimed a Hero (And I Agree)
Meet Kai (straight out of Dogtown!) who is the most hilarious, deadly surfer dude/hitchhiker you will ever meet. Listen to his totally insane description of taking his ax and “smash, smash, SUH-MASHing” the head of an alleged rapist who nearly went on a Jesus-fueled killing spree, and… okay, this is far too complicated to explain. […]
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Hey Saggy Britches! I’ll See You… IN JAIL!
In this video from the Black Mental Health Alliance of Massachusetts, a “cop” warns the youth of today that if they wear their pants “hip hop style” (which apparently is droopy with underpants showing) they can be sent to prison for THREE YEARS?!? Hypervocal looked into it a bit, and discovered that this crime might […]
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Joe Biden Will Make His Gun Control Recommendations on Tuesday
Vice President Biden has met with the NRA and Walmart, and he’s preparing his gun control recommendations for the president. He’ll announce them on Tuesday, Huffington Post reports: “There is really a very tight window to do this,” [Biden] told the press corps during his announcement Thursday. The recommendations are expected to address a number […]
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Rape and Survival and Virtue
Sohaila Abdulali has a beautiful, heartbreaking, and empowering essay in today’s NYT: At 17, I was just a child. Life rewarded me richly for surviving. I stumbled home, wounded and traumatized, to a fabulous family. With them on my side, so much came my way. I found true love. I wrote books. I saw a […]
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Guns Don’t Kill People, Signs Encouraging People to Use Guns to Kill People Kill People
The Glenn Beck lovers at The Blaze think this sign will single-handedly save us all from mass shootings. The comment thread is an accurate example of the conservative pro-gun blogosphere right now: Detached from reality, highly political, and riddled with the belief that the only way to save yourself from a nut with a gun […]
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Are You in the Psychopath Profession? Let’s Find Out!
In Kevin Dutton’s book The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, he presents the following side-by-side list of occupations that have the most psychopaths (CEOs) and the least (Care Aides). Umm… nobody look at #6. And as a reminder, here’s the definition of “psychopath.” Psychopathy is a […]