Jack Bog's Blog

• Who says there are no debtors' prisons in the United States?

  An alert reader wrote us today with concern about a case in which a man was sent to prison for willfully failing to pay his company's payroll taxes, even though he argued that he didn't have the money to pay them. Jack Easterday operated a chain of nursing homes in' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  

• Side effects may include

  I got a flu shot this morning, and now, suddenly, I'm craving nacho cheese Doritos. ' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:18pm EST
  

• Mutation

  Overheard at the cllinic: someone calling it the "heiny" virus. [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 11:49am EST
  

• Trial by internet

  Here's the jail booking photo. Here's the sketch of the suspect. Same guy? [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 9:11am EST
  

• Recall 2.0 sets itself up for epic fail

  The group that wants to try again to recall Portland Mayor Sam Adams is making things hard for itself. Not only is the enigmatic Jasun "Kiss of Death" Wurster, who ran the doomed first effort, continuing to be prominently involved, but now they've also got a Kevin Mannix' [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:55am EST
  

• On beyond OnPoint

  Our blog posts about the quarterly results at OnPoint Community Credit Union -- a Portland-based financial institution that we consider at least some indicator of the state of the area's economy -- have led readers from time to time to request comparisons of OnPoint results with those of other [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:56am EST
  

• The latest "green" vehicle: the Ford F-150 pickup

  Handing out tax money to get people to buy cars was nothing more than robbing from our children to postpone the inevitable for the auto industry. But it was easy to sell: just make it a "green" program. Conserving energy! Stopping global warming! Saving the polar bears! And the flock [...]
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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 10:21pm EST