edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Wherein Loaded Orygun’s “torridjoe” calls Blue Oregon’s Kari Chisolm “a condescending dick.”
In the department of unintentional hilarity, this is one of the best entries I’ve read on local blogs recently. Chisholm, whose Blue Oregon blog is a de facto organ for the Democratic Party of Oregon, makes his [...]
They don’t make TV like this anymore.
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From LuLu, our little “parlor panther.”
The view from the concourse of Memorial Coliseum, the world’s only transparent arena
As a member of the the mayor’s Rose Quarter Stakeholder Advisory Committee, I got the chance to tour the two-arena, 35 acre Rose Quarter with [...]
It seemed like such a great idea… a walking tour of Beverly Cleary’s neighborhood, which, it turns out, was Ramona Quimby’s and Henry Huggins’ neighborhood.
Rain in the forecast? Who cares! It’ll be all the more authentic!
Well, it didn’t rain, [...]
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.” — Mahatma Gandhi
Today is Gandhi Jayanti, a [...]
A couple years back, the Oregonian’s hackneyed Web front-end, OregonLive.com, started experimenting with a local implementation of Reddit, a link-sharing social network. It never gained critical mass, and it was easy to game the system to get (and keep) links on the front page of OregonLive.
Hey, we had our [...]
Fear mongering about socialism in America would be comical if it weren’t so damned frightening. What can the rest of the world think of us?
We spend twice as much per capita on health care, and still have tens of millions without access to basic, preventive care. Why [...]
Cicadas:
Monarch caterpillars:
Chioggia beets with caramelized onions and garlic and pan-seared green beans an zucchini with crisp basil, Parmesan and lemon zest
I love beets. Despite this love, and despite having been a produce guy for 10 years, I [...]
From my flickr friend OneEighteen, who drives ships in and out of the Port of Houston for a living.
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My coworker has me on a Bollywood crash course. Evidently, you don’t know Bollywood if you don’t know the classic 1960 film Mughal-e-Azam (The Emperor of the Mughals). This film has everything: love, war, music and dance. It was shot (mostly) in black [...]
Tonight’s garden feast: capellini with garden fresh pesto, rustic whole wheat bread, and rice salad with fresh green beans, zucchini, basil, and jalepeño. I haven’t made pesto for years, but it’s not hard to remember.
Pesto fresh basil garlic olive oil some kind of dry, [...]
Via Annaliese, who did hers according to David Bowie (on Facebook). Instructions: “Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s [...]
We spent a couple days at the Oregon coast (highs of 60-65) after several days of 100+ in Portland with lows around 75. It’s still hot in Portland. We paid a visit (and a whole lot of simoleons) [...]
Here’s a little number I whipped up for breakfast today.
Ingredients: a couple fistfuls of freshly dug spuds a fistful of basil half an onion half a bell pepper a dash of paprika salt and pepper to taste olive oil Method:
Go out and dig up some [...]
A great place to spend a quiet and peaceful Fourth of July.
Of course, we hit the beach, too, and enjoyed visiting tide pools left by unusually low tides.
[...]
…beat blogging!
Two and a half years ago, I started ranting on this site about the gross educational inequities in Portland’s public schools. This eventually got the attention of the local mainstream media and the greater school district community. I didn’t set out with a mission, [...]
Come help tell Senator Wyden we want everybody in and nobody out!
Gather at the Federal Building (1220 SW 3rd Ave) at 11:45 to hear doctors, nurses and patients speak about our broken health care system and how we can fix [...]
…but at least he didn’t break any laws, at least not that he can be successfully prosecuted for!
WooT!
(Thank goodness for Adams that his paramour is a lying sack of you-know-what, and that there were no other witnesses. Else, things might have come out differently!)
Thanks for keeping Portland weird, Sam! [...]
The World, a cruise ship that has been converted to a cross between a Pearl district condo tower and the world’s largest SUV, has been moored downtown all week. With 165 multi-million dollar condo units, 270 crew members, five [...]
They just keep coming… we’re freezing, making jam, and eating fresh!
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Not a stork, a blue heron. Checking out their fish pond, no doubt.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. [...]With all the hullabaloo surrounding our very own scion of a Bush crony begging public money for his private sports teams, and with the rump of Oregon’s infamous Goldschmidt gang doing his bidding, it sure is nice to have Amanda Fritz on the city council.
As reported in the [...]
Not a random grouping of letters.
Garden report:
weeded and thinned: beets, carrots harvested: the rest of the spinach, strawberries direct-seeded: pole beans, winter squash, zucchini transplanted: tomatoes, cuke, jalepeño pruned: Rose of Sharon confirmed: ladybugs released by junior yesterday are hanging out in the potatoes anticipating soon: raspberries, blueberries, new potatoes Copyright © 2009 [...]Dime Caridad
I don’t know what else to call this, especially after drinking one. Check it out:
1 pint frozen raspberries from last year’s harvest
3 ice cubes
3 shots vodka
4 fl. oz. club soda
3 T. sugar
Blend the hell out of it, and share it with your lover on the [...]
Poncho Sanchez at Montreux, 2004
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1 package rice noodles
chopped vegetables (onion, carrots, broccoli, etc.)
tofu or meat
oil for stir fry
Peanut sauce ingredients
4 t. oil
1/2 onion, minced
5-10 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 t. chili powder
2 T. sugar
2 T. rice vinegar
3 t. soy sauce
1 c. water
1/3 c. peanut [...]
Hey yins guys, I got more beer! (For my Pittsburgh family… go Pens!)
Word that Oracle will purchase Sun Microsystems may not seem to be of general interest, but it’s big news in the tech sphere. In my office, where we support Sun’s Solaris operating system, along with HP Unix, IBM’s AIX Unix, Linux and Darwin (Apple’s port of [...]
A wounded Sam Adams, aided only by an army of man-child soccer fans and erstwhile enemy Randy Leonard, has failed to “get things done” vis-a-vis demolishing the Memorial Coliseum to make way for patrician Merrit Paulson’s stunted sports dreams.
At one point, Adams said he would resign if he could [...]
Merit Paulson, millionaire son of Bush Treasury Secretary and former head of Goldman Sachs Hank Paulson, wants to tell us to do with our Memorial Coliseum.
Isn’t that cute.
Besides being insanely rushed, there are many reasons to oppose this absurd deal.
The Coliseum is a modernist masterpiece, [...]
Action without spiritual vision gives rise to division.
Vision without action remains mere imagination.
Vision, however, with action becomes a means of peoples’ welfare,
As it brings about an inner transformation in them…
–Swami Tejomayananda
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I’ve been pretty hands-off on the new prez, at least publicly. But I keep asking myself a couple things. First, why they hell haven’t we nationalized the banking system yet? Second, why the hell isn’t Obama talking about single payer health care?
(Of course we knew ahead of [...]
This week’s celebrity slap-down between city commissioner Randy Leonard and county chair Ted Wheeler may signal the beginning of the end of an era in Portland development. (Warning: wonkishness ahead.)
First, let’s talk about how urban renewal, a.k.a. Tax Increment Financing (TIF), is supposed to work (and [...]
Portland City Council is approving the MLS deal today without $15 million in urban renewal funding, but not without some first-class fireworks between commissioner Randy Leonard and county chair Ted Wheeler. Dan Saltzman introduced the amendment removing the $15 million, then voted yes on the amended measure, along with [...]
I eat lunch most every day at an Indian grocery near my office. Since they’ve got B4U Music on the big screen, I can’t help but associate Bollywood and cholle.
And let me tell you, nothing tastes better than some good Indian food after a vigorous game of [...]
Per Terry’s request, more harmony (Lion Song by Jay Harden):
As for “more bass”, maybe it’s your computer speakers. The recording engineer thought we mixed the bass too high!
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.From the Left Coast Sports Babe, with a tip of the hat to Greg Drinnan’s Kamloops, B.C. based Taking Notes:
Barack Obama took his first foreign trip to Canada this past week. He said in a speech there that he expected to fix the U.S. economy, bring the [...]
Just before I moved to Oregon from the broad American prairie, I was playing bass in a band called Totem Soul. We earned enough money playing in college bars to pay for three days in a professional recording studio (this was before the age of [...]
Sir! No Sir!, the suppressed story of the GI movement to end the war in Vietnam, is being screened this Saturday as a benefit for the Portland Central American Solidarity Committee’s anti-war delegation to Venezuela.
Details:
Saturday February 28 Doors open at 5:30pm Event begins at 6pm Limited seating - Tickets: [...]What else can you say when your new mayor is sidelined on the top two items on his 100 days plan: first education, and now economic development?
Even while many local politicos cower quietly in fear of retribution from a wounded and cornered Sam Adams (and his sycophants repeat the [...]
News that the state of Oregon is considering reinstating the teaching license of an admitted serial child sex abuser is weird enough. But it gets weirder.
Roberta Weber, cited in the O as someone “who directed hard-of-hearing education and other special education programs in Portland for years”, defended the former [...]
I’ve promised a post on Portland’s collective extended adolescence, but somebody beat me to it (don’t worry, I’ve still got a thing or to to add to the conversation). Adrienne calls it Peter Pan Syndrome (PPS). Here’s a mature 25-year-old’s take on some of the 40-something behavior she observes [...]
First off, I friggin’ love Portland, so don’t give me that hater bullshit.
Now that I’ve got that out of the way, let’s cut to the chase: Portland is over-the-top passive aggressive.
It manifests in traffic, politics and inter-personal relationships. At the grocery store. At work. In lines. At concerts, sporting [...]
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.I was a lesser incarnation of myself when I stumbled upon the Oracle. But this was not clear at the time, obviously.
We were in a labyrinth, we being me and some other, whose identity also was not clear at the time, when we came across him.
“You could have left when [...]
Some of the prudes, Victorians and hypocrites, who, as evidenced by their statements, obviously want to turn back the clock on sexual liberty:
The editorial board of Just Out: “By his own admission, by committing the act of lying to the citizens of Portland, Adams has failed to show the [...]Forwarded from the community:
Thursday, January 29th, 7:15pm. PSU Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 101
Are you outraged at Israel’s war path through Gaza? Who wouldn’t be at the senseless destruction, loss of innocent life, the targeting of schools and mosques, the use of horrific chemical weapons [...]
That’s how Commissioner Randy Leonard describes Mayor Sam Adams, who declared today that he will soldier on as mayor, shortly after the Oregonian broke the news that his relations with Beau Breedlove were closer to the thin blue line than previously reported.
Adams should understand that his political future [...]
Say what you will about Sam Adams, he’s got a lot of friends and supporters. I have never been one of them; I’ve always considered Adams to be overly-motivated by personal ambition, and in the pocket of Portland’s real estate developer mafia.
So I see this scandal in the light [...]
I should be thrilled, as an atheist, to be on President Obama’s short list: “Christians and Muslims. Jews and Hindus — and non-believers.” Seriously. For all the God goin’ around today (some of it a tad — ahem — intolerant), I was surprised to get an [...]
…it’s the cover-up.
Also, it’s not about sex, it’s about power.
Randy Leonard says this wouldn’t be an issue if Adams weren’t gay.
Evidently, he never heard about “that woman.”
That’s all I’ve got to say about it for now.
Copyright © 2009 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for [...]There are about 2% of Americans who are homosexual or gay and lesbian people. We should not let 2% of the population change the definition of marriage.
This is not even just a Christian issue. It’s a humanitarian and human issue.
–Pastor Rick Warren, in support of California’s Prop. 8
Clinton waited [...]
I do not determine what is right and wrong by looking at the budget of my organization or by taking a Gallup poll of the majority opinion. Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
–Martin Luther King, Jr., [...]
On the day that Portland’s seventh-ever woman city commissioner was sworn in, Anna Griffin ran a non-apology in The Oregonian for once (or was it twice?) having called then-candidate Amanda Fritz “shrill.”
Fritz objected to this, naturally, as sexist (how many times [...]
It’s a well known fact around Portland that an inch of snow can shut the town down. So what happens when we get a series of storms over two weeks dropping over a foot of [...]
(The cat won.)
A couple variations on kid favorites for the grown-ups for Nan who was expecting drink recipes from Wacky Mommy.
Snow SnakeAdd a shot of schnapps to a cup of hot cocoa. Top with a mountain of whipped cream. Drizzle a line of creme de [...]
We got another inch or so last night, with the big blast still pending… 6-10″ predicted for the valley floor, over a foot for the gorge (and tons more for the mountains).
With Amanda Fritz poised to be sworn in January 3 as a pioneer in Portland’s public campaign financing, voter owned elections (VOE) skeptic Jack Bogdanski threw some red meat to his libertarian right readers last week.
Bogdanski simply notes the amount of public money spent, $482,227.79, which is enough to [...]
Obama’s selection of Paul Volcker and Austan Goolsbee to head his economic team says it all.
Volcker, Fed chairman under Carter and Reagan, is the architect of modern fiscal policy (”monetarism”) that manipulates interest rates (that is, the supply of money) as a tool to control growth and inflation (vs. the [...]
Maybe it’s the economy. Or maybe it’s just the way evil do-gooders do business. But have you ever seen a five-page application (PDF) to work in a coffee shop?
Besides the usual work history and contact information, they want you to write a short essay about why you want to [...]
Here’s the lunch panel from the Society of Professional Journalists‘ “Building a Better Journalist” conference last month in Eugene (I wrote a little preview here). This panel, moderated by Rob Smith, editor of the Portland Business Journal, featured Steve Engelberger, managing editor of ProPublica, Steve Smith, [...]
From my dear friend in Minneapolis:
I was just at this postage-stamp size Euro cafe La Belle Crepe drinking coffee while these two women ate their crepes. One mentioned how she had been at a bar and when the election results were announced, a lot of people just put their head [...]
Well, it was down to two nail-biters in Oregon, but the late count of Multnomah County made the difference.
Democrat Jeff Merkley appears to have unseated two-term Republican Gordon Smith for the US Senate.
Bill Sizemore’s Measure 64, which would prohibit public employee unions from defending their members from [...]
Here he comes, along with his family. Damn that is one fine looking first family.
I’ll save the political analysis for another day — yes I know he’s a centrist. But right now, tonight, something I didn’t think was possible has happened. We’ve elected a black man president [...]
(Here’s a version with the original Budweiser ad at the beginning. Useful triva: John McCain’s wife Cindy is Chair of Hensley & Co, one of the largest Budweiser distributors in the world.)
Lots more (not necessarily funny) on Andrew Sullivan’s blog at the Atlantic, where you can vote on your favorite. (My first runner up is “Whassup 2008″.)
Copyright © 2008 More Hockey Less War. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only.I’ve been posting my Oregon Voters’ Guide for a while (I think this is my third edition), and since I know a little bit about search engine optimization (and since this site has half-decent Google juice), I’m usually in the top five results for a search [...]
Fellow Iowa boy Toby Huss nails it:
(Toby and I were both theatre students at the University of Iowa back in the mid eighties. He’s obviously managed to do something with his larnin’. As if that weren’t a tenuous enough connection, he played Cotton Hill on King of [...]
Good stuff from Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler:
See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die
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Anybody who knows a professional print journalist — and I know a few — knows that there is a growing sense of panic in the industry. Readership is in a death spiral, along with ad revenue. Owners of big city dailies — mostly large conglomerates now — are reacting by [...]
Oregon ballots are in the mail and voting has begun. I’m honored to have just cast a historic vote for Barack Obama for president. Down ticket, things aren’t as clear-cut, especially on the ballot measures, so here’s my usual two cents worth on things, from the top.
[...]
Mr. McCain brought his campaign to Florida on Friday, a state that he must win but where he has been losing ground to Mr. Obama in recent polls. Campaigning with him was Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, who tried to appeal to Cuban-Americans in the audience by trying to [...]
I’ll be a special guest blogger over at Willamette Week for the presidential debate, starting at 5:45 PST.
Comments are taken, and published within the live blog stream at the discretion of the editor (not me), so come on over and join the fun.
Copyright © 2008 [...]
From our good friends at Willamette Week, where you can download a high resolution, printable PDF of the above image.
With the Winter Hawks starting their biggest road trip of the season in Spokane tonight, the WHL board of governors is meeting today to decide the fate of our local major junior hockey franchise. Kamploops Daily News sports editor Greg Drinnan, who initially broke the [...]
First noticed on Huffington Post (with a little shout out to this blog), from Lynn Zinser’s New York Times Slap Shot blog. Also read a round-up of coverage of the event on E & P Pub, with some humor regarding Rangers’ center, former Winter Hawk and Alaska [...]
Funny stuff from Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep (definitely not appropriate for work).
