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News & Commentary
Opening schools
Wishing isn’t sufficient
Lessons from Uber
A study of 1 million Uber drivers
Your rights with law enforcement
Know your rights
Muslims protest against French rhetoric following knife attack
Blasphemy has to be legal.
University of Portland basketball programs preparing to move out of state
The wild inconsistency out of the Governor’s office continues.
Caliphate is bogus, just like 1619
Surprise, surprise, surprise…
American Bar Association rates Amy Coney Barrett as ‘well qualified’
Because she is, despite how much the Democrats may not like it
Salem-Keizer injects politics and religion into education
A terrible idea grows worse.
19 families buy nearly 97 acres of land in Georgia to create a city safe for Black people
Perhaps the wrong answer, but again…freedom.
California heat wave breaks records as Creek Fire and other wildfires grow
California is going to keep burning
Essays
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...
Ty’s Oregon Voters’ Guide 2000
Want somebody to tell you how to vote? Of course you do! You probably just don't want it to be me. Oh well, one out of two ain't bad. I've long been opposed to those MTV-style "Rock the Vote" efforts which, for my money, only encourage ignorant people who otherwise wouldn't vote to sign up and to cast a presumably uninformed ballot that's bound to negate the vote of someone—like me, frankly—who's spent time studying the issues. For the record, I have no problem with the...
Well, Windoze Me!
Windoze /Win'doz/ v. 1. To be completely and utterly screwed, usually by Microsoft. Ex: My operating system just crashed (again). I sure am Windozed. Given a world of approximately six billion unique individuals, it never stops amazing me that so many people are such total lemmings. Granted that the wide variety of forces—cultural, historical, etc.—which play upon human beings enforce a certain amount of homogeneousness, but sometimes I think we'd see more intellectual...