Twenty-two weeks ago tomorrow, I called Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and left a voicemail on its abandoned-cars hotline. I...

June 5, 2024 I regularly walk my dog at the Columbia Slough in Northeast Portland. A stripped car has been 'parked' near a footbridge on...

I posted in December 2019 about the stayed execution of Rodney Reed, a two decades-long death row black man in Texas who was convicted in...

Donald Trump just screwed the pooch. He learned mid-March 2020 that Russia put bounties on USA troops in Afghanistan. Russia would pay...

May 30, 2020 They say dogs have a five minute attention span. In only slight contrast, humans have a five hour attention span (aka the...

April 6, 2020 Bergamo Italy's mayor Giorgio Gori is one super pol to whom you should listen. Bergamo is in what MSNBC calls Italy's "red...

March 24, 2020 Attorney General William Barr was dissed big-time weeks ago by a senior judge on the federal bench for lying in his...

March 22, 2020 The US today became the number one country in the world in terms of the early rate of Covid-19 contagion. In other words,...

March 13, 2020 Disease spreads exponentially. Remember high-school math class, which you hated? Remember complaining, I'll never use this...

March 12, 2020 On Sunday, March 1, 2020, U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that Donald Trump's June 2019 appointment of...

February 29, 2020 A musician and a musician-copyright attorney just paired up to computer-generate every 1-octave, 13-beat melodic note...

February 18, 2020 This past week, Donald Trump unfairly influenced our criminal justice system by tweet. Trump said that a seven-nine...

February 10, 2020 Ancient viruses now being released from historic ice-aged regions may be the next endemic! Or maybe it will be escapee...

January 22, 2020 Earth is doomed, but the courts--the third co-equal branch of government under Article III of the US Constitution--are...

January 15, 2020 US citizen Lev Parnas--not resigned national security advisor John Bolton--is about to become Donald Trump's worst...

January 12, 2020 Impeached Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani is globetrotting to secure grifts for Trump from foreign...

Nineteen blue states got a rare gift yesterday from the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) on the constitutionality of the...