Portland
Californians in Oregon, Part 1
To paraphrase something a friend recently wrote: A group of geese is a flock. A group of wolves is a pack. A group of cows is a herd. A group of Californians is a calamity.
Steve Casburn
Sports
Things I’m still getting used to
In Portland, "OSU" means Beavers instead of Buckeyes, and "the Coogs" are still red but they're way too white.
History
Iraqi death rate, in perspective
California has had two major riots in the last 50 years: * The Los Angeles riots of 1992, when 53 people died, 26 of them in a single day. * The Watts riots of 1965, when 34 people died. In Iraq, death tolls larger than these have been happening almost every single
Portland
Picture of Portland #3
Interstate 84 heading into downtown, seen from the 12th Avenue overpass.
Intellect
The emaciation of conservatism
RedState is a prominent Republican group blog. On consecutive days this week, it featured: 1. A post interpreting the graying of the conservative movement as an opportunity for the young'uns of RedState to advance in that movement. 2. A post conditionally supporting Ben Domenech on the occasion of
Music
Dahmus bait
Yo, M13K! On this book cover, please to be reading the title of the book, then look at the person pictured in the upper right. And before commenting, please remember that this is a family blog, so be careful when you knock stuff off the shelves. Be careful…for the
Portland
Portland is a small town
I went to Cutting Crew for a haircut this afternoon and got to talking to a woman sitting next to me. She talked a bit about her older son, and after a while it dawned on me: "Does he volunteer at KBOO?" Yes, he does. Nice kid, too.
Getting what I paid for
I was looking for some dark socks this weekend, and I noticed that Dockers-brand socks were the lowest-priced ones on the Meier & Frank rack. Name-brand. Low price. Why not? So I get home this evening, take off my shoes, and see holes in the toes of
Politics
Not the word I'd use...
A recent front-page headline in the print Oregonian described President Bush as being "stoic" in the face of mounting criticism. I wonder if it is a peculiarly American trait to confuse "stoic" with "inarticulate" and/or "bovine".
Intellect
Faith-based and reality-based
[I]f morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world. Freakonomics
Coming around again
On the sleeve of his 1978 album London Town, Paul McCartney is wearing a patterned summer shirt. I saw a shirt with almost the same pattern for sale today at The Gap.
Life
Friday
Thursday we had an afternoon-long snowstorm (I was amazed that none of it stuck). Friday was beautiful. Sunny with temperatures in the mid-30s, and everything smelt and felt clean, clean, crisp and clean. I walked home this evening along the rainbow colors of Taylor Street, and never wanted