GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! But everybody’s got to move and everybody’s got to groove. Everybody needs love, sure enough. Everybody ought to live it up. LET’S GO TO PRESS. UGH. The Supremes are on a bad roll, first allowing anti-choice protesters to harass women outside of abortion clinics, and now allowing Christian companies (like Hobby Lobby) […]
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Does Republican senatorial candidate Monica Wehby support the federal legislation that prohibits workplace discrimination against LGBTQ employees (which, by the way, was sponsored by Sen. Jeff Merkley, her opponent)? Yes, but she sort of hesitated to say as much on Lars Larson’s conservative talk show yesterday. Because, you know: What if BUSINESSES were harmed because […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I’m a big man, give this man room. I’d a hit everything, from Cancun to Grant’s tomb. LET’S GO TO PRESS. Pro-Russian separatists and Kiev government mediators meet face to face in an attempt to bring peace to a very ugly situation. Meanwhile thousands of Ukrainians rush for the Russian border to […]
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Let’s get this out of the way. Most of won’t you be reading this any time soon. You’ve called in sick so you can sit in a bar and drink in the morning like it’s a Sunday and you’re not ready to let go of Saturday and there’s soccer on and it’s the American team […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Every time your name was brought up, I would act all nonchalant in front of an audience. Like if you was just another shorty I put the naughty on. LET’S GO TO PRESS. The Supremes deal another blow to cable and satellite cord cutters, ruling against network broadcast streaming company Aereo who’s […]
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Still angry about the “transportation utility fee” proposed, submitted for a city council vote, then hastily pulled back by Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick? Still grudgingly supportive of it? Still apathetic, but bored and surly on a Tuesday morning? Head down to the Oregon Convention Center now and be heard! As Iraq continues […]
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Sorry, America. Your cities have basically never been savaged in foreign wars. No occupier in 200 years has put its hand around your throat. But now you know pain. Watch the brilliant header that sliced out and urinated on millions of the world’s wealthiest and most entitled hearts. The advance of the Sunni militia carving […]
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Gone to Chili’s lately? Of course you have! Because you like “the deals”! Because you appreciate salt and casual, family-friendly dining options in strip malls and along six-lane state highways! And now guess what? Our friends at Chili’s are making it even easier to put their sumptuous wares right into your road-weary maws: Expensive, overwhelmed […]
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Looks like malevolent, labor-hating Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker might have used malevolent, illegal tactics to beat a 2012 recall attempt. That, at least, is the contention of some Wisconsin prosecutors, whose allegations were unsealed yesterday. No charges have been filed, except for those in the court of public opinion. Walker’s up for re-election in November. […]
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GLOBAL CRISIS AVERTED. Holy moly macaroni, you guys… Facebook was down for 31 minutes, it’s longest outage in four years… and it was terrible… because people… they had to idly scroll through other social networks (do those even exist)… or… and this one’s almost too terrible to contemplate… not look at screens at all. President […]
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Here come the sectarian atrocities. As ISIS makes its way to Baghdad, it looks like police may have summarily executed 44 Sunni prisoners north of the capital, rather than give them up to the rebels. And in Baghdad itself, bodies are just sort of turning up in the streets, along with theories about Sunni-v-Shiite motives […]
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Iraq’s would-be conquerors—the Sunni-led, Al-Qaida-rejected Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS!)—have now been parked a couple of hours’ drive from Baghdad for two days, notably slowing their roll after a too-easy jaunt through the country’s north. The Iraqi capital sits at the doorway to the country’s Shiite-dominated south, where hundreds of men have been […]