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hunger is the enemy EVERY day
We watch the ABC news most nights. I am usually okay with it, but today's stories of endless lines of hungry people had me weeping through the newscast. -
how predictable
Plague in the era of 45:
Rescue businesses (esp those in which you hold a stake) with trillions of dollars.
Let the masses founder in unemployment, sicken, go bankrupt, and die. -
in sync (for once)
After 6 decades of feeling the odd man out, I at last have the advantage: lucky I am the indoorsy type. -
school's out forever
Oregon schools to remain closed through June at least. Distance learning (for which no one had a plan) is now the plan. -
playing another round
From this date in 2003, in Phoenix: we've been here before. -
oh, no.
Not John Prine. -
keeping one's distance
If you were among the group of 20 or 25 people crammed onto a couple of blankets along the river, I was the fat old guy on the red bike who rode by shouting, "Are you people out of your fucking minds?! Do you think the virus takes nice days OFF?" -
real fucking white of him
Cardinal Pell bears "no ill will" toward his (TOTALLY JUSTIFIED) accuser... -
it's a Eugene thing
5 years ago, traffic was snarled on the elevated freeway here when a woman pulled over and jumped off, nude and on fire.
This week a brilliant citizen threw a lit "explosive firework" at a woman with whom he was arguing at a local U-Haul franchise. At the same time, another paragon of civic virtue was siphoning gas out of rental trucks on the lot ( Read more... ) -
angelos athanaton
It has been two years since I last fell off my bike. Here's to two more!