Wilder Shmaltz The most gut-wrenching article you can read this morning? The Oregon Center for Public Policy’s roundup “The Swing of the Budget Ax”: a detailed report of the human impact of the looming state budget cuts. Especially hard hit by this year’s across-the-board nine percent cuts are mentally ill people who are able to […]
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The Situation is Making a Workout DVD!!
Who are you calling dumb now? This is an awesome idea. Making a workout DVD with a “bonus abs” feature is the best, and one of the only, career moves this guy can make. (I don’t think the rap career is going to happen. It would probably be best not to rule out porn, though. […]
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PHART CHART TOPPER!
This week’s PHART CHART TOPPER is smelljamesluce! Congrats, and look! We’ve animated it for you! Will you be the next Phart Chart Topper? Submit your art or photos to the Mercury’s Flickr group, and start PHART-ing today!!
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The Rain is Coming Back
I just used the AC in my car for the first time in 2010, and according to weather.com it’s not going to rain on, and thus ruin, any more June days (fingers crossed). And yet! You should know that beginning at 10 am tomorrow morning, there will be a stampede to the Nau warehouse sale, […]
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The Walmart iPhone: A Deal with the Devil?
Here is your ethical financial problem of the day! Perhaps you’ve been wondering if you should purchase an iPhone 3GS—but a) you don’t have the necessary funds, and b) maybe you’re thinking it would be better just to wait until the newest iPhone launches. Well, today’s news is not going to help matters much. From […]
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“Being Hated Pays My Bills”: An Exclusive Interview with Spencer Pratt
This Friday Matt “The Law” Lindland, Olympic wrestler and former Republican nominee for the House of Representatives, will be facing off in the Rose Garden against “King” Kevin Casey. Casey is an up-and-coming fighter in the MMA (mixed martial arts) who earned a brown belt under Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend, Rickson Gracie. Exuding extreme intensity over […]
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East Portland Gets Only 3% of City Transpo Funds
This week for an article called “East of Eden”, I toured East Portland with Representative Jefferson Smith and discussed how the lands east of 82nd have been shafted time and again by the city. Since the mid-county was annexed (in a process later rules unconstitutional) in the late eighties, East Portland has grown to 28 […]
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The New $100 Bill is Hella Heroic
The feds have just unveiled a new advanced security design for the $100 bill with this ridiculously stirring, patriotic trailer. via AdFreak On the other end of the spectrum, the Portland Rescue Mission needs volunteers to serve dinner to homeless people tonight.
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Did You Pay Your Taxes Today? Then YOU’RE AN IDIOT!!
OMG! I can’t believe you actually paid your taxes today!! Didn’t you know that there is NO LEGAL LAW IN THE LAWYERING BOOKS OF LEGALITY that says you HAVE to pay your taxes? Oh. You didn’t know that. Hmmm… well… better luck next year! And watch this video.
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The New Nationale, Now with… Membership?
The new location of May Juliette Barruel’s Nationale (home of delightful affordable luxuries like toiletries from France, locally produced art, books, mags, and vintage) is open today at in the 811 E Burnside building, Ste. 122 (in back). Along with the new location comes a new offer: store membership. For $6/mo, $30/6 mo, or $50/yr […]
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How Much Red Carpet Oscar Looks Cost
Getting your judgmental hats ready for Sunday’s Oscars? Not that it will discourage you from cruel remarks, but check out celeb super-stylist Phillip Bloch blabbing to Thread about the total costs to the actresses studios for getting those slobs to run a comb through their hair and put on a dress: The Thread, Cost To […]
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The New Credit Card Responsibility Act
Explained by Jon Stewart: (Including: Why this is the best thing to happen since mandated calorie charts at McDonald’s stopped Americans from eating McDonald’s. Remember that? So amazing.)