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News & Commentary
Superstar Cities Are in Trouble
The pandemic has wrought a revolution: a disconnect between home and work.
Evan Rachel Wood accuses Marilyn Manson of abuse
Here’s the thing about abusers…
A breakdown of the GameStop situation
GameStop mania
GameStop and the stock market
“Traders die broke.”
Oregon Supreme Court: State can compel cell phone unlocking
What’s in my head is mine, and the government shouldn’t be able to force me to share.
Opinion | How President Biden can advance rights for marginalized groups
Everyone deserves legal aid and advice.
Is a bad philosophy better than none at all?
Nutters
Civil Rights Groups Ask Congress Not To Expand Domestic Terrorism Legal Authority
Considering the full range of possible uses
Insurrection and white privilege
As heretical as it may sound to some, not everything is about race.
Oregon Cares Fund suspends operations, hands over remaining money to federal court
Oregon Democrats get it seriously wrong.
Essays
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...
Election 2000: Brains on Display
I attempt the political punditry equivalent of Evel Knievel's jump over the Snake River. Will I land safely on the other side by successfully predicting presidential election returns for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia? Or will my guesses turn out to be a crash and burn? Does a Nader victory equal an early parachute deployment? Will I ever stop with this lame stuntman metaphor and just get on with it? Sure thing. I've stated previously on several occasions that...