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Oregon special education and English-learning students can attend school in-person
Because special needs and ESL students don’t have enough problems.
Seattle’s “Summer of Love”
Abolishing the law enforcement not surprisingly leads to laws not being enforced.
Gratitude is the attitude
I’m grateful…
Portland’s deadly July
City Council eliminates Gun Violence Reduction Team. Gun violence soars. Shocker.
The Roots Of Wokeness
Andrew Sullivan is a superb, important writer. I followed him avidly during his Daily Dish blogging years. So happy he’s returned with the Weekly Dish.
Trader Joe’s, responding to demands to change its packaging, says the product labels aren’t racist
For the simple reason that they’re not.
A defense of America and of Free Speech
Author Garry Kasparov is a former Russian dissident, among other notable achievements.
The Scourge of Hygiene Theater
Aerosols are where it’s at.
Portland protesters gassed by federal officers on advance through city streets, park Monday
What is being accomplished here?
Portland’s protests were supposed to be about black lives. Now, they’re white spectacle
A worthy attempt to refocus the movement
Essays
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...
Vive la France! Vive la Différence!
Compiled during seven weeks in France during the summer of 2000. I attack all manner of topics from the vantage point of an American in Paris, a status made obvious by my white tennis shoes, lack of a poodle, and inability to keep from showering once a day. The resulting treatise is both required reading for doctorate level Franco-American political science students and the reason France pulled out of NATO. Okay, item number one: Parisians drive around their town like...
Prince Albert in a Can
If you're feeling trapped in your career, imagine the vice president. No matter what he says or does, there's no escaping those pesky 1996 campaign finance irregularities. Note to Al: 18 minutes of blank tape didn't help Nixon; three years of deleted email won't help you. The most immediate advantage Vice President Al Gore has in his race to the presidency, other than the currently blissful economic climate, has got to be that he's not as drop-dead stupid as his Republican...