The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive Tracy Clark-Flory admits to looking at those hacked celeb sexts—and feels bad about it: I did it. I am embarrassed to admit it, but I did: I searched for the celebrity nudes stolen by a hacker over the weekend. It was an […]
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Intrigue! Read the Staff Complaints that Led to the County’s Latest Emergency Management Shake-Up
As we report in this week’s paper, the office responsible for Multnomah County’s emergency planning experienced something of a mutiny starting in late June. Three separate employees complained to the county’s Office of Diversity and Equity that Joe Rizzi, then-director of the Office of Emergency Management, had committed a litany of managerial sins—including skipping out […]
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Mutton Bustin’: CONDEMN OR ALLOW?!?
Even as a person with a rather questionable moral compass (and I’m being generous to myself here), I’m still having a hard time wrapping my head around Mutton Bustin’. It’s scheduled to be featured this weekend at the Multnomah County Fair at Oaks Park, which will also showcase the usual array of pettable farm animals, […]
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This Week’s Style Events
Yeah, it’s getting hotter around here, but you still have to wear something. TODAY: FRIDAY, MAY 16 —Furniture store Nadeau is celebrating the opening of their new Portland store (featuring solid wood pieces mostly under $500, which is cheap in the unfathomably expensive world of good, new furniture) with a li’l wine and cheese. Nadeau, […]
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Donald Sterling Is Banned from the NBA: Is That Enough of a Punishment?
Huffington Post says that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has announced that Donald Sterling has been fined 2.5 million dollars and banned from the NBA. “Effective immediately, I am banning Mr. Sterling for life from any association with the Clippers organization or the NBA,” Silver said during a press conference in New York on Tuesday afternoon. […]
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The Rise of the Anti-Liberal Left
Michelle Goldberg diagnoses what increasingly ails us at The Nation: It’s increasingly clear that we are entering a new era of political correctness. Recently, we’ve seen the calls to #CancelColbert because of something outrageous said by Stephen Colbert’s blowhard alter ego, who has been saying outrageous things regularly for nine years. Then there’s the sudden […]
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#Cancel Colbert: The Politics of Being Offended
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Indecision Political Humor,Video Archive A lady person of color wrote this piece about Suey Park, the Twitter activist who called for the cancellation of the Colbert Report—so it can’t be sexist or racist, right? But it’s probably totally sexist and racist of me to link to it. There’s […]
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A More Important Sochi Problem
There’s the yellow water. And then there’s the wider environmental damage: In the rush to complete what ended up being $51 billion in construction in just five years, Russian’s Olympic Committee has played fast and loose with the environmental standards it once promised to uphold. To take just one example of many, Olympic organizers make […]
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Fashion’s Latest Scandal: The Black Woman Chair
As if everyone doesn’t already have Russia on watch, yesterday’s MLK day saw Russian fashion publication Buro 24/7 posting this photo of Dasha Zhukova, editor in chief of another Russian magazine, Garage: Buro 24/7 After a Twitter-led explosion of outrage, the publication altered the photo to crop out most of the chair, which in case […]
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Tonight in Music
The Hamdogs (Via) Duff’s Garage–The Hamdogs, 6 pm, $2; Shorty & The Mustangs, Brad Creel & The Reel Deel, 9 pmAlberta Street Pub–Big Haunt, Adam Brock, Steff Koeppen & the Articles, 9 pm, $3Al’s Den–Samantha Crain, Michael Hurley, 7 pm, free Bamboo Grove Salon–Nikki & the Pathos, Sean Wagner, Olive Delsol, 8 pm, $5 Dante’s–Whitey […]
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ACLU Sues Obama Administration to Stop “Dragnet” Phone Surveillance
New York Times: The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration over its “dragnet” collection of logs of domestic phone calls, contending that the once-secret program — whose existence was exposed by a former National Security Agency contractor last week — is illegal and asking a judge to both […]
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The Customer Service Problem at McDonald’s Is a Symptom of a Much Bigger Problem
Chris DeRose published an article at Business Insider addressing the fact that McDonald’s is failing at customer service, with a vice president of the company openly talking about the “rude or unprofessional employees” at some franchises. Here are DeRose’s suggestions: 1. Create shared emotion around delivering a great customer experience. 2. Keep simplifying work processes […]