- BULLSEYE GLASS The factory likely responsible for the airborne heavy metals.
In case you missed it yesterday, the state has found alarmingly high levels of arsenic and cadmium in inner Southeast Portland. “Though DEQ is still determining roughly how far these hazardous air pollutants (as they’re officially known) have spread, most immediately at risk are two Portland schools—Cleveland High School and Winterhaven K-8— and a 100-child, private day care facility on the nearby Fred Meyer corporate campus that serves children as young as six weeks old.” (Via Blogtown.)
Things keep going downhill for the paranoid dipshits who tried to take over an Oregon bird sanctuary. Indictments unsealed this morning reveal Ammon Bundy and 15 of his pals “have been indicted in court on charges of conspiracy to impede federal officers through intimidation, threats or force.” So that seems fair. (Via The Oregonian.)
Incredibly, Honda is still expanding its recall of vehicles with Takata air bags—this latest burst includes over two million “Acura and Honda vehicles from model years 2005-2016.” (Via Reuters.)
Going full Frank Cassano, Martin Shkreli called members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform “imbeciles.” This came after he “declined to testify… about his actions in increasing the price of a decades-old drug fiftyfold overnight.” (Via The New York Times.)
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders debate at the University of New Hampshire this evening, presumably doing their best to ignore the soft, wheezing weeping of deadbeat dropout Martin O’Malley, who, again presumably, will be curled up in a little ball just offstage. You’ve got a few different viewing options; whatever you choose, authorities advise staying as far away as possible from Bernie bros, as they’re gonna be particularly annoying tonight. (Via NBC News.)
The rain continues. The rain is all we are. Your will to live will die, sputtering and gasping, drowned by the rain.
- via Weather.com
Sick of being depressed by the news and the weather? ME TOO. Luckily, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! opens tonight, and the Mercury‘s Ned Lannamann calls it “a remarkably silly valentine to movies, in all of their ludicrous, laughable glory.” This is the best note I can leave you on today. (Via the Mercury.)
This BernieBros nonsense is so sexist. There are literally millions upon millions of women and minorities who support Bernie, but the lying shitbags at tabloid rags like the Mercury want to try and convince everyone that young, white, men supporting progressive issues is somehow a bad and sexist thing. When will you stop being sexist against the millions of female and minority supporters of Bernie Sanders, Mercurag?
Wow! Sensitive much “Totalitariland”? Fyi, in this specific case, “douche bros” is not gender specific: to “feel the Bern” you don’t have to piss all over Hillary – but when you do, you’re a douche bro.
James: No, you are wrong on all counts. First of all “bro” is universally considered a term that references males. Specifically a certain type of white, privileged, often sexist, college-age male. The purpose of the “BernieBro(tm)” meme is to smear Bernie supporters by portraying Bernie supporters as entirely consisting of privileged, white, male, college-aged sexists who hate Hillary (and by extension all women) simply because she’s a woman.
My point was to illustrate that this tactic is both cheap and extremely sexist. It is sexist towards both male and female supporters of Bernie, but particularly female and minority supporters, who make up at least 50% of his supporters.
Also, disagreeing with Hillary, diasagreeing with her policies, pointing out her hypocrisy, not wanting to vote for her, and wanting to encourage other people to not vote for her does not mean you are sensitive, sexist, or “pissing all over Hillary” as you so sexistly put it. It means you have a brain.