Dinosaur Speak

I thought the BBC did a good job with this.  The reenactments were on the nose, the talent of the cast formidable. TS

I like the Orioles this year, with young Manny Machado and baseball's home run leader, Chris "Crush" Davis ...but man, they...

Let us not forget about Portland State. I went to school there also, so the Vikings are one of my teams.  They dipped last season when ...

Emblematic of power, control and the iconography of annihilation, this symbol of a New Order in college football is repres...

Bless his pea-pickin' heart. Nader pinpoints the problem with our likely next POTUS . Clinton is a hawk in a skirt--the MIC's be...

Here is another fine essay from one of our best, the ex-Harvard divinity student,   ex- New York Times reporter and current...

We're getting close to camp, folks.  UO and OSU both start Aug. 5. Portland State opens camp August 1 (see above post). Here are ...

Do we need another book about Hemingway? I must admit I like the potential in this one. Sounds like the in-depth annotations of the no...

The user has taken down my post of the full movie "Stop Making Sense." Man, that was sweet while it lasted.  Love that movie,...

Find, if you're able, truer words . In my opinion, a ghastly specter to those who value theirs more, all the security state does i...

Since I've heard and read nothing but good things about this, I'm going to give it a try. Patrick Leigh Fermor, who lived  96 ...

Have you seen this video of the train wreck in Spain? It looks like the toy Lionel set I had as a kid and wrecked all the time just fo...

A new video by Buddy Dooley, with a little help from yours truly. TS

This was posted on 5 July.  A seminal figure in the great Portland band The Webbers, along with the late Kal Tanner, Phil was a real tale...

I've upped the ante against Titan Chess.  I've won just twice at level 6. Here someone beats the program at level 10. I don...