“What we’ve got is a failure in society, whether it’s in Mount Pleasant with yuppie parents or whether it’s on the East Side with poor crackhead parents,” said Charleston City Councilman Larry Shirley. “We pick up stray animals and spay them. These mothers need to be spayed if they can’t take care of theirs.”
There seems to be a flaw in this plan, making it unworkably incomplete.
Clearly, the mothers in question themselves were improperly raised, and so we must also find some way to punish their mothers. But, that would mean the mothers’ mothers themselves also were improperly raised, and so we must find some way to punish them as well. And so on.
This could take awhile.
Jack has pointed out that nominations are open for the Spirit of Portland awards, and I’d like to nominate Emilie Oy in the Independent Spirit category.
TPMCafe’s Election Central scores an audio excerpt of the Democratic response to air after the GOPresident’s weekly radio address tomorrow.
“Anyone who challenges our failed policies, or suggests the need for a new strategy, is accused of ‘cutting and running,’” the response will say in part, “Well, I didn’t cut and run, Mr. President. Like so many others, I proudly fought and sacrificed. My helicopter was shot down long after you proclaimed ‘Mission Accomplished.’”
The response of which the above is a part will be delivered by Tammy Duckworth, Democratic candidate for the House, Iraq veteran, and double amputee.
So reports The Washington Post (via TPMmuckraker), which quotes the Senator as calling the pro-torture, anti-habeus, king-making detainee bill passed yesterday by the Senate “patently unconstitutional on its face” before he voted to approve it.
Re-did the main page of The One True b!X to display a 5×5 grid of square thumbnails for the 25 most recent photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr.
Thanks to phpFlickr for making this possible, although I redid their example code to output valid xhtml and css. The page includes a link to the RSS feed of my photostream, both on the page and via autodiscovery tag.
At some point, once I re-learn the proper mod_rewrite syntax, all pages at that domain will redirect to the main page.
Belmont Station Beer Forum (via Metroblogging Portland) reports that The Rose & Raindrop will be gone come the end of the year.
An email on the Oregon Brew Crew mailing list says: “The landlord informed him that someone made an offer that’s roughly double what he’s paying. The landlord can’t tell him who’s taking the space, but he was told it won’t be a restaurant or bar anymore. Apparently it’s to be renovated/gutted and turned into something else.”
According to The Rose & Raindrop website, the bar “is housed in the Barbur Blocks Building, a registered historic building and one of the oldest standing commercial buildings in Portland. Built in 1890, the building was one of the first multi story brick buildings on the east side of the river and one of the nicest funeral parlors on the west coast.”
Addendum: Maybe they can go be a part of the Grand Central Market, although I’m not sure who gets ownership of the ghosts which allegedly haunt the bar’s current location.
