Dinosaur Speak

Whenever silly debate begins to rage about the meaning of the American flag I feel obliged to reprint this poem from my colle...

The war of words between the president and black athletes is about competing historical narratives.-- CH Chris Hedges  nails it, as usu...

My Oregon Ducks lost to an ASU team they should have beaten last evening.  Oregon's talent just isn't there yet, and it appears t...

I've been kind of sick and knocked low by life lately. I'll get back to this in the future. TS

So someone has ghost-written another Hillary Clinton memoir. My biggest question when I picked it up was: Did Hillary stiff the writer ou...

The Oregon Ducks are a sensational story now in the college football world as pundits and ordinary fans attempt to figure the team out af...

The greatest football play of all time happened yesterday in a college game.  See it here. TS

Open carry? Walden's pond.  The dickhead supported the armed takeover of Malheur. Think about that. Is he a fascist or a Repub...

Prosecute the parents of the 15 year-old whom witnesses said started this massive fire?   Highly unlikely, lawyers claim. TS

So primary challengers aren’t supposed to challenge at all.  They are supposed to be thoroughly cowed patsies for the front-runners.  No,...

The wind has shifted, blowing east.  The smoke is gone for now.  I can see blue sky again.  This is a welcome respite.   How long will i...

When Kiki Vandeweghe played for the Trail Blazers in the 1980s he was my neighbor for a time on Hoyt Street in Northwest Portland. Kiki...

The woman is so goddamned delusional she needs to be hospitalized and put on reality-based drugs to help her come to her senses. I h...

Oregon is  on fire, and what a drag it is. A kid has been fingered for setting the Eagle Creek blaze--a dumb shit playing with firewor...

Behind the rhetoric of the “alt-right” about white nativism and protecting American traditions, history and Christian values is the lust ...