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News & Commentary
Oregon Health Authority is in the ad business
And they’re predictable awful at it.
Redefining “Violence”
The misuse of the term for political ends has real world consequences.
The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
Anyone with any kind of development background could have foreseen this.
Democrats continue to push racist policies
This one is in education (which already has a huge left-wing racism problem).
A week without power and heat focuses the mind
Instructive background on the electrical grid
Teachers unions not crazy about being pushed to the front of the line
It’s easier to be cavalier when the life on the line isn’t yours.
The secret to good vaccine rollout is keeping it simple
Keeping something simple also allows for governmental transparency, something Oregon has sought to avoid.
Brown and the OHA: Overpromising, underdelivering
Oregon has no idea how many educators there are, how many have been inoculated, or how long the process will take.
GameStop stock is plummeting but the Reddit rebellion is just beginning
I’m not going to be particularly put out when the market crushes the little guy. Here’s why.
Trump pollster’s campaign autopsy paints damning picture of defeat
Trump is who most of us thought he was and was defeated for those reasons.
Essays
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 5
Chinese airplane bumper cars, Microsoft's Passport revoked, BC forgets to bring the funny, the NBA tries to get "in the zone," and the hubris of dot-commers remembered with a sad shake of the head and roll of the eyes. I'm probably the only one, but I think, if the Chinese were to check closely at the bottom of the United States recent letter of apology saying we were "very sorry" for their pilot killing himself by ramming into our plane and for the subsequent landing on...
How Few Thoughts a Brain Holds 4
Thus spake Zarathustra: Any commentary on 2001 shall include a Green Bay Packer with mouse ears, Dubya's elevation to the presidency, a rash of dot-com deaths, and the latest in Microsoft idiocy. And so it was written. I'm imagining the commercial would go something like this: Voice Over: "Mark Chmura, former All-Pro tight end for the Green Bay Packers, you've just been found not guilty by a jury of your peers of sexually assaulting a teenage girl at a party. Now that your...
Let’s Be Careful Out There
I live my own episode of COPS. Guns, drugs, busts, sirens, traffic stops. An average night in the life of a Salem Police officer, an adrenaline rush of major proportions for me. Kudos and thanks to the men and women in blue. December 8-9, 2000 8:30 PM: I'm introduced to Officer J.K. "Jimmy" Krauger, a veteran and field training officer (FTO) of the Salem Police Department. Jimmy deals with some paperwork and equipment for 30 minutes while I peruse the materials in the...
Election 2000: Winners and Losers
It was a time of marvelous political theatre if only for the reason that the suspense was thick and the losers plentiful. We won't get it this good ever again. Winners None spring to mind. Email me if you think of any. Losers Yeah, we've got those in spades: George Bush. Campaigning in California and New Jersey? Good grief, you're dumber than we thought (and that's pretty dang dumb). Given the number states in play where you could've spent that campaigning time, this was...