While I’ve been resisting the urge to blather on and on about 30 hour day, here, the time is drawing near. And things are getting into full swing. While I’ll share—perhaps overshare—way more details next week, suffice it to say that 30 hour day is a [...]
By Gregg Carlstrom
I started writing a post this morning about the incoherent military operations in Afghanistan that have followed Obama's surge announcement. I left it unfinished because I had to run to Capitol Hill for an interview about Lebanon; I came back to this tweet from Matt Yglesias, which' [...]
By John Ballard
I'm learning to monitor tweets while doing my morning surfing. This can be distracting, especially when themes intersect in delightful ways.
Steve points to a great piece in the Guardian explaining how special interests advance the claims of climate change deniers.
..."members of the public feel more'" [...]If you're not familiar with Oregon Republican Jeff Kropf, he's a seed farmer from Sublimity who was a relatively prominent member of the state House in the Legislature, until he decided that keeping his opponent from getting equal time while Kropf fulminated as Lars Larson's radio stand-in was more [...]
Multnomah County Commission Chair Ted Wheeler broke two vertebrae in his back skiing. Not surprisingly for those who are long-time Wheeler followers on Twitters (@tedwheeler), that's where the news first "broke":
tedwheeler In hosp. w/ broken back, shoulder, and slight facial lacerations from skiing accident. Full recovery expected. [twitpic.com]
By John Ballard
Crof tweets a link to a Canadian study validating a usually ignored common sense conclusion.
The study and numbers may be Canadian, but there is no reason to imagine similar results anywhere in the world.
Only 51.2 per cent of Canadian men in the lowest income [...]
Well, well, well. It’s another Thursday. Kinda. And that means it’s time for another episode of memePDX. Lucky number 13, in fact.
So what did we cover? Well, a whole bunch of stuff. But we’ve got one favor to ask. Just pretend it’s Thursday, pre-Ignite Portland [...]
By John Ballard
This is too long to tweet and too short to blog, but too good to miss.
Tom Watson riffs on the Palin phenomenon.
Journalistic poetry.
...Newsweek went with the full Joan on its cover this week, fronting essays by Evan Thomas and Christopher Hitchens, pieces that are also accompanied by [...]
