Time once again to put on your hip waders and hold your breath in order to read another Bizarro World dispatch from the editorial board of our newspaper of record, this time on Charter revision.
Archive for April, 2007 Page 4 of 11
Lawyers for two volunteers who ejected three people from a taxpayer-funded Denver appearance by the GOPresident say “viewpoint-based exclusions” are legal because the GOPresidency is just like any private corporation.
It’s an irony (I think) that at least one of Major Tom’s staffers said they were glad I came back to writing about City Hall. An irony not because of my opinion of the man, but because the duplicity and demagoguery of his behavior in the Charter revision campaign is precisely the sort of thing which moved me to euthanize Portland Communique in the first place. Mere hours after last night’s berserker rage, I now have to turn to Anna Griffin’s report from last night’s forum.
Here’s the height of obscenity. Last night, Barry Bonds of all people wore the number 42 on his uniform in honor of the great Jackie Robinson.
It’s the same story that’s been continuing for weeks now. Major Tom and his cronies blame PHART’s cost overruns on the commission form of government. Then he says PHART’s cost overruns shouldn’t be a “political fight” regarding form of government. Then he blames PHART’s cost overruns on the commission form of government. Then he does it again. How hard is it for just one of our many fine local reporters to just flat out ask him why he’s a lying hypocritical shitbag?
Continue reading ‘When Will The Local Press Call Major Tom On His Bullshit?’
Here’s a prime example of the degree to which I do not understand faith. In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings, one blogger posted an item whose title was this: “God must need angels”. What the Hell is that? Tell me that’s not an actual statement of belief. Can it somehow possibly be comforting to view all-too-human murder as God simply wanting more for himself? Or is this just one of those things which people of faith say without ever taking even just a moment to think it through and notice the rather sickening implications?
The woman who three years ago wrote a front-page profile of me for Theo back when I was publishing Portland Communique was a nominee for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature writing.
This weekend’s instance of multiple insanities comes via This Space for Rent, who points to a New York Times article which reveals that Viceroy Cheney apparently likes to travel in an Airstream trailer nestled inside a C-17 cargo plane named for an infamous bigot from the South.
