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News & Commentary
Community prays, calls for action after Bush’s Pasture Park shooting
Let’s remember the victims not the assailants
Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime
No need for hate crime laws.
This is what the fentanyl crisis looks like in a state rethinking its historic drug policy
Ending the tragedy of Measure 110
Oregon Senate passes anti-book-ban bill over Republican objections
It seems like age-appropriateness might be a legitimate standard.
Portland hate crime assailant who stomped on stranger’s face gets less prison time in deal with DA
The issue isn’t hate crimes.
I Pretended To Be ‘Nonbinary’ To Expose a Medical Scandal at Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser gender specialists were eager to approve hormones and surgeries…
Oregon Health Authority said its cover-up of beer and wine tax study was inadvertent. That’s false.
The single worst department in the State of Oregon.
Effort to boost tribal early learning collapses 3 years after mandate by Oregon Legislature
$2 million down the drain and bigger problems to come
Students nationwide have rebounded after pandemic. But not in Oregon. Consequences could be severe
When you do what you did, you get what you got.
Taxes in America
Rich pay taxes. Lots of taxes. Corporations, not so much.
Essays
(In)tolerance
I find that I've grown increasing intolerant of fundamentalist religion. I simply have no time for people (*cough* -Mike Huckabee- *cough*) who turn off their brains to the reality of the world. This realization about myself has been disturbing on several levels. First, I don't much like being intolerant. I'm not sure it's good for me, and I'd much prefer to respect people's deeply held religious beliefs, no matter how stupid. (Hopefully it goes without saying that I...
A word or two about Terri Schiavo
Several things should be made clear in the case of Terri Schiavo, the poor woman who's been in a vegetative state for 15 years and is now having her feeding tube removed at the behest of her husband and against the wishes of her parents. First, this whole sorry mess would've been avoided if she'd simply had a Medical Directive (aka Living Will, Advance Directive, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, etc.) instructing doctors and loved ones as to her wishes. A lot of...
Election 2004: Brains on display
Honestly, I wasn't that far off in 2000. I only missed Bush by 10 and Gore by 13. Not my fault it was the closest election in the history of ever. (Is it?) Commander Botox vs. Idiot-in-Chief. I'm already on record as saying that I believe John Kerry will be the next President of the United States. I'm also on record as saying that he sure wasn't my first choice. But seeing as how George W. Bush isn't even in my top 1000, Kerry will do just fine. The post debate polling is...
Gay marriage
"The last chance to preserve marriage in Oregon," reads the brochure. What, are they outlawing it or just forcing everybody to get divorced? "Seven facts you must know," or Seven bogus arguments you must read. Here we go.... Oregon ballot measure 36, for those who don't know, would define marriage as between a man and a woman, effectively barring gay marriages from taking place in the state. Specifically, this constitutional amendment reads: It is the policy of Oregon, and...