Someone just sent me the link to former first lady Rosalynn Carter talking about mental health on the Daily Show. “One thing that’s really difficult is the media,” she says. “We have to have you say good things, and if you get my fellowship we can help you out.” “I could learn a lot,” said […]
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Did You See This HOrseshit?
Update, 10:37:”The metro area’s $3.5 billion tourism industry…” It’s ASTONISHING that a major metro newspaper doesn’t even take the time to do the math on such an obviously bogus statistic. For that to be true, the city would have to take in $9,589,041.10 PER DAY in tourism dollars. NINE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS A […]
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O: Saltzman Was Shy About Disclosure
The Oregonian has picked up on Saltzmangate. Now the Commissioner is reneging on his position yesterday, citing shyness as a reason not to have made the disclosure: “In retrospect, maybe I should have done that (disclose his relationship),” he said, but he’s shy and the thought of announcing his private life and outing someone “who […]
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Gizmodo’s Top 10 Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
Essentially, they see their customers as unpaid employees for crowd-sourcing ad-targeting data. And so on. (Does this mean Catbook has to go, too?) Via.
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What’s Important To Street Roots Vendors?
Nice little project up at the Street Roots website this weekend, photographs of a bunch of vendors holding placards that tell us what’s important to them: A bit inspiring, a bit heart-breaking at the same time. The fact that everyone really wants pretty similar things, and that we’re still so woefully inadequate at providing any […]
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The Best Pun of This or Any Other Millennium
Here’s the awful story from England’s The Sun: A CHEF has died after an EEL was put up his bum. Shocked doctors in Sichuan, China, found the sea creature in the 59-year-old man’s rectum after his death, it has been reported. The 50cm long Asian swamp eel was allegedly inserted into the unnamed man’s bottom, […]
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Westerman Comes Clean On Personal Life
DAVE NEESON Either it’s his personal life, or it’s not his personal life. Personally, I’m a bit sick of hearing that people had things going on in their “personal lives,” that they can’t talk about, and then seeing it splashed all over the fucking newspaper the next morning. From this week’s story on Westerman’s road […]
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“It’s not all the kids. It’s just the bad ones.”
Street Roots‘ April Fools edition is now online. And of course the irony is not lost that the article PDX on Verge of Collapse after Homeless People Invade Downtown is perhaps less outrageous than some of the real suggestions made recently to counter of Portland’s Homeless Problem(TM). “It’s not all the kids. It’s just the […]
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Oregonian Endoses Saltzman: “Gumption? Nerve? Leadership? Saltzman fits the bill.”
Read the whole thing here. And why they don’t just come out and say, “we hope Nick Fish runs for mayor,” I don’t know. The whole, “we have very high hopes for him” line is woeful.
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A Story The Paper Of Record Is IgnOring
I’m still waiting for Oregonian publisher Chris Andersen to give the green light to this story that ran in the Portland Business Journal yesterday:
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Oregonian Editorial On Recall 2: The “Unmayor”
I might have known the Oregonian would have to weigh in on the second recall effort before its inevitable implosion in a couple of weeks. Well, here’s the editorial: But stop and think. A recall election is exactly what’s needed right now. By not signing a recall petition, Portlanders are signing up for three more […]