Dinosaur Speak

"Vanilla." An obfuscation meant to express the fiction that Oregon's defense was hiding "schemes" and "pack...

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Combine Oregon's offense and UCLA's defense and you might have a team with the potential to beat the next Pac-12 champions--the US...

Up for the day. UCLA at Virginia (Oregon made this trip last season).  Look for the Bruins to win, but I betcha the Cavs are improved o...

T S Eliot once told someone at a party that his inspiration came from “gin and drugs.” Quitting it is the only reason why I'm stil...

I delivered a stack of books to this place this morning. If you're a Portlander and don't want to wait for an Amazon delivery...

I guess I was wrong. Carolina missed Clowney badly, along with a defensive concept.  Made TAM look better than they are, though Kenny Hi...

I just put this on hold at the library.  I hope I like the book as much as I like the premise. I swear, I'm so far behind it's...

The Degrowth Conference 2014 will be streamed live from Leipzig, Sept. 2-6. Check it out. I wanted to send Buddy Dooley to this, but ...

This weekend's games that matter from the viewpoint of the College Football Playoff selection committee. Or so we are being asked to...

First win since '12, snapping a 16-game losing streak! It's officially on. TS

Lazy journalists bought it, corporations hyped it, everybody was looking for  a "feel-good" story . The Mother of All Hype St...

The protests were also about more than Ferguson. Because Ferguson isn’t an outlier; it is, at least for a large part of the country, the ...

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New insurance forms arrived in the mail today. Must keep the bureaucrats busy, it's my duty.  After all, it would have been too eas...