Some of you may be like me, trapped in an On Demand, Hulu , Netflix cycle of must watch TV that requires a spreadsheet to track schedules, characters and plots; which allows me (and perhaps you) to avoid the news detailing what a mess this country is. The news is typically so dispiriting that I …
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The devastation and tragedy in the aftermath of Sandy goes on and on. If victims are lucky, they don't have power or are waiting in lines for hours at gas stations. If they aren't so lucky, they have no food, no water, no shelter, no diapers or baby formula, are old and trapped, are using …
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Brigid had a rough day yesterday so I'm a day late on my Weekend Wrap Up. Lots of big news to report. Most terrifically.... they caught the crazy ass murder neo-Nazi guy on Saturday afternoon in Corvallis, a town about 80 miles south of Portland. Yay!!! I can sleep soundly at night knowing that psycho …
Welcome to Friday. I'm done being all heavy and thoughtful and sincere. It's hard to take things too seriously when I have to promote a piece called, "A Metamucil Masterpiece". Jen and Tonic, a fellow Portlander, wrote it. This is what happens if you live in Portland for too long. It is the last day …
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Dear Mr. President, I will not be voting for you this November, just as I didn’t in 2008. While in 2008, I merely had hunches about why I didn’t want you to be the president of the U.S. mostly due to your lack of past leadership experience and voting record; now I have been witness …
Yesterday I added a brief sentence at the end of my post about Annie's high school being on lockdown. At 6:30 yesterday morning in a nice house on a leafy lane not far from the high school, not far from Annie's dad's house; a man broke into that house, stabbed the man of the house …
My post yesterday garnered many angry and passionate comments about the Sandusky/McQueary child rape story. My readers were as fired up as I was about protecting children and how these males (I think you need to earn "man", as one poster wrote) failed to do that. Interesting observation and I don't know what it means, …
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