A dozen years or so ago I was complaining to my German friend, Marcus, about the dreadful loss of historic architecture in Portland and all across the country after WWII, and he said something that I found hilarious at the time but in retrospect, not so much. (Nazi accent) “After you destroyed our cities, you [...]
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I used to think time was on my side with ol’ Dick Cheney; that that ticker of his couldn’t possibly continue to propel his fetid corpus onto Meet the Press and whatnot, to croak dire threats of the danger of everyone not doing exactly whatever he said, for much longer. That he was always later [...]
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Why is it that one of the most important qualifications for being a righty is to be, well, an ass? As a group, they invariably turn out to be rude, condescending, nasty, and unpleasant, especially when they’re wrong. No wonder Rush Limbaugh is on his fourth wife; who could ever live with these people? A [...]