Why should Whittington apologize for being shot?
I have just read the most frightening comment in an AP wire story on Cheney's mishap with his shotgun last weekend: "My family and I are deply sorry for everything Vice President and his family have...
View ArticleWould the Republicans throw the Shrub to the wolves?
Warning: I have no inside information to confirm this speculation. Heck, if you'd like, consider the following essay fueled by a tinfoil hat & too much illegal drugs. I'm just sharing this as a...
View ArticleA case of what's good for the goose?
My morning Sunday Oregonian had an article with the headline: "Treasury suspects Chavez link to voting machines." The top two paragraphs read: In the depths about the reliability of electronic voting...
View ArticleSunday's Dilbert reminds me of Bush
Although I'm having trouble matching up steps one thru seven with his known biography. And because I suspect Scott Adams to be a true-Red Republican, I doubt he'll help identify any -- or even think...
View ArticleThe barrier to the First 100 hours
I just noticed this over on Atrios: "Nancy Pelosi will have a hard time implementing her 100 hours agenda of raising the minimum wage, implementing the 9/11 commission recommendations, and ending...
View ArticleWhy McCain's "I was a POW" embarrasses himself
By now, McCain's answer to every question -- "Let me just say that I was a POW for five & a half years" -- has become something of a joke to everyone except the corporate media & the Right-wing...
View Article"The bravest folks in the land"?
For those of you who have not discovered the mudflats blog, we now have a report of the Bravest Democrats in this campaign year: "A group of intrepid Obama-Biden supporters stood in the rain beside the...
View ArticleWhere are the Republicans of Yesteryear?
When talk turns to Republicans we progressives can admire, the names of Abraham Lincoln & Theodore Roosevelt usually are invoked. Yet there are more, like Tom McCall, governor of Oregon (& a...
View ArticleI think I just got push-polled by Chris Dudley
I just hung up (well, now it was an hour ago) on a pollster answering questions about the upcoming race for Oregon governor (between former governor John Kitzhaber & Republican ex-NBA player Chris...
View ArticleA New Romney Outsourcing story
I'm surprised that this hasn't hit the front page, let alone been posted before me. (Or maybe it has been, & either I couldn't see it in the recent diaries even if it was surrounded by blink tags...
View ArticleLinda McMahon shows her classy side
Mitt wasn't the only classy guy in the election to screw over his staffers when their campaign credit cards were canceled in that short time between his concession speech & when they left for the...
View ArticleAll Things Bookstore: Seattle's block of used bookstores
We all know that bookstores are an endangered species, independent bookstores more so. So when I discovered four bookstores in a single Seattle block last summer, I felt I had stumbled into a world...
View ArticleThe rumble in Anchorage: the official report
If you don't want to read about the former half-term governor of Alaska, stop right here.
View ArticleScandal in Oregon! (or: Watching a daily newspaper circle the drain)
For the rest of the country who need to consult Wikipedia to learn his name, the fact that governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon has been dealing with something of an embarrassment over the last several...
View ArticleBreaking: Has Kitzhaber resigned?
My wife IMed me 30 minutes ago, asking if I heard the news. All I've been able to find is this article from the right-wing hack newspaper The Oregonian.I have KGW noon news on, & at first they...
View ArticleAnother opinion on press coverage of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge Occupation
This is rather late, but I only discovered this letter novelist Ursula K. LeGuin wrote to The Oregonian 18 January, & couldn’t find any mention of it on Daily Kos. (Maybe I ought to improve my...
View ArticleY'All Qaeda has their day in court
The news has been so full of the short-fingered vulgarian that the incident earlier this year of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupation probably has slipped your minds. For those of us here in Oregon,...
View ArticleThe Bundy trial: life as a rural sheriff
Due to the tremendous response of my last diary, I decided to write a sequel. And, of course, scouring the news sites, there was nothing about the trial today.But following up a suggestion by Jen...
View ArticleDonald Trump, star of film & stage
It appears that Donald Trump has something common with Ron Jeremy. No, not that they both are New York natives. Or that they are cheapskates — although worth a couple of million, Ron Jeremy is so cheap...
View ArticleIrony, thy name is NRA
Just saw the NRA commercial, the one where a woman identified as “Kristi M.” explains how she defended herself from an assault because she was packing a gun. “Donald Trump supports a woman’s right to...
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