A young Portland woman named Lauren Edelson had a very nice piece in the Sunday Times. I won't summarize it because it's excellent, and funny, and deserves to be read in its entirety. Here's to you, Lauren!
By John Ballard
I've been busy this week with Christmas stuff and a variety of personal chores, and today I'm catching up with reading. Here's what I'm into...
Via The Arabist
Book Report, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders Short story of the title page A Spoiled Man The Swiss screw-up (and' [...]
Black Friday & Cyber Monday: Some Quick Facts
• Black Friday spending rose 0.5%, ($54 million), to $10.7 billion, this year from last year.
• Online sales up 17% (Thurs. to Sun.) over the same period last year.
• Cyber Monday up 11%, more than they did a year [...]
41BCT PATCH: The Sunset Patch is the official unit insignia of the Oregon Army National Guard's 41 Infantry Brigade Combat Team. It features the setting sun over a field of blue water. In 2005, the unit participated in search and rescue operations in Louisiana following the [...] Sunday's New York Times has another in a long series of winning columns by Oregon's own Nick Kristof, this time on the subject of health care. Kristof's work for NYT is often a feature-political hybrid, attempting to take serious and weighty matters and express them through tales of the [...]
On Sunday Paul Krugman made the idiotic statement that there was "tremendously more money" to be made by being a skeptic of Man-Made-Global-Warming than there is in the church of MMGW. A complete...
[...] Always the victim. Sometimes, you have to wonder if the eugenicists weren't onto something.
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The Sunday Oregonian featured a story comparing two businesses and their different views of Measures 66 and 67. Paloma Clothing’s owner Mike Roach said he supports the measures. The other business owner, Bess Wills of Gresham Ford, said that the new minimum tax will [...]
Here's a publication that we stumbled upon yesterday at the grocery store:
It says it's issue no. 7, which means this monthly has been going for a while. Good for them, especially in these tough times.
For those readers who find this blog too cynical, may we suggest that you find [...] According to the U.N., climate change causes women to become hookers. The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population [...]
By Steve Hynd
It's become fairly conventional wisdom that the regional winner of the Iraq war was Iran, which now has its pensioners in control of the Iraqi central government and - theoretically - all that oil. Kurds and Sunnis may have something to say about that, however, especially [...]
Recently, referring to my post From October - 3rd coolest Ever!, 2009/11/18 at 11:09 AM, Mark commented, “You’re kidding right?” Well Mark here’s another post to ponder: in Little Ice Age II, The Sequel, Al Simmons and Doug L. Hoffman at The Resilieant Earth have a very interesting [...]
Religious leaders are praying that Joe Lieberman's heart softens. The LA Times reports:
...an interfaith group of clergy is lobbying him to drop his plans to filibuster any healthcare bill that contains a public option. Their strategy: prayers.During a Sunday night vigil, a crowd walked from Stamford High School, Lieberman's alma [...]
One cycle that is NOT moving up is the sunspot cycle. We should by now have come off the mat and heading for 25 sunspots
The sun is blank!
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Mike Landfair
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ALBANY GA — Nov. 15, 2009 — Sherwood Church, home of the hit independent movies FLYWHEEL (DVD only), FACING THE GIANTS, and FIREPROOF (2008’s top indie film), at its Sunday evening service tonight, announced the theme and title for Sherwood Pictures’ fourth movie. Senior Pastor Michael [...]
Why? Well, because I said so.
At least that seems to be his reasoning in assessing others. I caught a portion of "This Week" on Sunday and when confronted with the buzz about Gov. Sarah Palin that...
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26 years later, this song still cracks me up. 
