Who says there’s no bipartisanship in Washington? When it comes to endorsing our culture of violence, revenge, and punishment, we’re essentially a one-party state. This was vividly on display with the release of the dying Lockerbie bomber by those commies over in Scotland, when the networks fell all over themselves to find “grieving” family members [...]
Zimmer Gonsul Frasca Architects, a national firm based in Portland, has just completed its new headquarters building on 12th and Washington streets in Downtown Portland; a 23 story tower in which the firm and its staff of 250 will occupy four floors, the remainder of which will be “luxury” apartments. The building lies in between [...]
UPDATED BELOW: More Democracy news… or its opposite. In a stunning victory for the plastics industry that funded the initiative, Seattle voters yesterday voted to overturn a twenty cent surcharge on plastic bags previously passed by the city council. Thus, a product so intrinsically crummy that it’s incapable of holding a box of cereal or [...]
I first became aware of this book because of a blog I was following on Twitter. I really do wish I could drink more… as well as more often, but I can’t. My particular combination of body mass and biochemistry will not permit such behavior without dire consequences. [I mostly get sick.] However, I am [...]
After the blizzard of talk over the week-end about where the Obama administration stands, or doesn’t, on the question of a public option in a national health reform bill, a New York Democratic congressman appeared today on the Morning Joe show (MSNBC) to argue for it. Anthony Weiner said Sunday the House health care bill, [...]
(h/t to the phonetically eponymous Salon commenter for the title…) Glenn Greenwald has a great piece up today about how religious nut Mike Huckabee met up with some other religious nuts in Israel, to, well, be nuts and religious together. As my mother used to say, sweetly and surreptitiously, about especially striking unattractive couples, “It’s [...]
As many of you are perfectly capable of discerning, the Hag is no computer genius. Each day new mysteries appear before me, garnered though the toobz’s mysterious portals like Google Analytics, and even the info in the site administration section of this blog. How, indeed, is it that the Hag has 16 subscribers in [...]
Since David Gregory took over MTP his ratings have gone down to the point that two weeks ago the unheard of happened and ABC’s This Week won the ratings battle. So MTP is searching for ways to win the week to week battle which they won last week. In their promo for this morning’s show [...]
Anyone who wants to inform friends, family, or people strolling down the street about the stakes regarding the proposed health care plan can help by offering solid talking points about the structure in place which cares for military veterans (VA) and retirees (Tricare). One good check on the current system and how it has worked [...]
One of the reasons for my loathing of modern architecture is its relentless utilitarianism; as James Howard Kunstler once wrote, and I paraphrase out of laziness, its schools and libraries fail to convey the higher calling of learning, its courthouses offer no visual cues about the majesty of law, and even its banks fail to [...]