Superficial Cat (Page 29)

Me

Salmon Street Green

View of my backyard and houses on Salmon Street (taken from my bedroom window) Home sick today, bundled up and working on my PCC homework. At least I have a nice view from my desk.

Politics

Collegiate in-breeding

Forty-six years before John Negroponte forced Porter Goss out as DCI, the two were fraternity brothers at Yale.

Politics

Voting for sheriff

Jack Bogdanski and the Willamette Week are both supporting the write-in of Paul Van Orden for county sheriff in this month's election. I might have written in Van Orden if I had heard about the effort before I mailed in my ballot. If I were to have

Me

The march of time

Five years ago, my beard started to go gray (if I were to grow it back, it would be half red and half gray — very Buckeye). About 18 months ago, my eyebrows started to go gray. Today I found a gray hair on my right temple. I'm much

Media

Stephen Colbert vs. the White House correspondents

I enjoy Stephen Colbert's work, but I was ambivalent about his appearance this weekend at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. On the one hand, Noam Scheiber is right to note that much of Colbert's talk was repeated from old Colbert Report episodes and that much

Life

Perfect weather

What a weekend! When I felt like weeding in the yard, it was sunny and warm. When I felt like taking a nap, it rained.

Music

iTunes favorites

I'm about to make some changes to my iTunes setup that might erase its history, so before I lose it, here are my 10 most played songs of the last four years: * 1. "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" by U2 * 2. "Ruin

Sports

Footie follow-up

West Ham 1-2 Liverpool. Happiness reigns in Anfield!

Intellect

Opposites

To follow up on my last post... It is said that the opposite of love is not hate, but rather indifference. Two kinds of passion differ less with each other than they both do with a lack of passion. In the same way, the opposite of a left-wing polemic

Portland

I love Portland, Part 7

Seen on Southeast 6th Avenue this afternoon: A Chevrolet Corvair with the Oregon license plate "UNSFE". Anywhere else I would call it irony. In Portland, though...Nader voter feeling guilt?