I started this blog nearly four years ago at the urging of my lovely wife.
I’ve never been a consistent blogger. At first, I obsessed on national and international politics, then took a local turn with Portland school politics. That blew up, so I put it on its [...]
By John Ballard
►Jeff Sharlet has started a series at his blog detailing some of the backstory of his book, The Family. Readers not familiar with this book or writer need to catch up.
This fall, anti-abortion activists cheered for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment -- or, the Pitts-Stupak Amendment, as Rep. [...]
"In memory of my sister." "An unexpected death." How do I title a blog post that is so painfully unexpected, but which I have to write --- because that's what I do when I hurt, and when I don't hurt: write.
You say it like it is. My sister died today. [...]
Much has been made within the blogosphere, and very occasionally, even in some of the media, regarding the CRU data dump. AlGore has gone on record with abject lies; he's claimed in at least two interviews now that the emails and associated documents are irrelevant and outdated, and that the [...]
(Something you will never see on any of the blue-Moonbat blogs)
On December 7th I published this opinion piece in which I said that I did not think that Sid Leiken was prepared to be a US...
[...] By John Ballard
Via The Health Care Blog we have an appropriate video for the weekend, Christmas and health care. This streaming video comes in short segments like a string of pearls. The subject of the story is also the producer and her message is one of excetement and promise. [...]
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Lili Taylor has posted a poll on her blog: “Do you think the PPS administration has already decided which high schools to close?” So far, 100% of respondents have answered “Yes.”
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By Patrick Emerson
Oregon Economics Blog
From the Wall Street Journal: “Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon became the first Democratic member of the Senate to announce that he’ll vote against Ben Bernanke’s nomination to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. In a statement ahead of [...]
We've had another fantastic Buck-a-Hit Day on this blog. Just before the stroke of midnight, the hit counter showed:
And one more hit crept in right at the wire, before we could get a screenshot. Those 4,505 unique visits mean that one of our benefactors is donating $4,505 to' [...] Commentary By Ron Beasley
My friend and blogging buddy from North of the border can't understand self-inflicted wounds as a result of the circular firing squad of the Democratic party. What BJ doesn't understand is that his southern neighbor does not have a Democracy as I pointed out here. [...]
Thank you for joining us for last week’s “Getting the Most Out of MarketClub” Part 1 webinar. If you weren’t able to join us, you’re in luck as we’ve just put the finishing touches on the edited version for all of our MarketClub members and Trader’s Blog readers.
Now watch: [...]
By Ron Beasley
One of my favorite bloggers, Lance Mannion needs some help to stay on line. I enjoy Lance and he was a big supporter of my old blog, Middle Earth Journal. Lance brings some satirical class to blogging and I for one would miss him.
A big PPS Equity welcome to Lili Taylor and her new blog Cheating in class: the shit they’re not telling you about the public education system.
Lili started posting last month, and has so far covered facilities concerns, financial waste at BESC, and the high school redesign in Portland [...]
Pat's back in. Perhaps he can blog from there tomorrow, if I can get his laptop's wi-fi connected.
Analysis From Lindholm Company BlogDear Readers,
It's that time of year again, the time where just about every religion ever under the sun decided to declare a Winter Solstice holiday of some description. We intend to take a bit of a break ourselves. For example, I just realised yesterday that I've not had a proper "blog" [...]
Haven't seen this come up in the OR blogosphere, although HuffingtonPost had a pretty up-front treatment of it and the Register Guard repeated the comments in a piece actually more about Ron Wyden--but while Joe Lieberman and Ben Nelson discuss the new reform mashup bill to be unacceptable [...]
It's time for the annual reminder that it's satellite internet or nothing here at the house. With the dish on the roof, blogging somewhat dependent upon the weather. While it's usually snow that causes the problems, ice was the culprit this time. Speaking of that...
Freezing rain turned Southern Oregon [...]
