Yesterday's Gone

This feature by a kid at The Oregonian caught my eye because I've actually worked in a number of the establishments described in the article, and I've frequented nearly all of them at one time or another.

I could tell you dozens of stories about the owners, my co-workers and many of the patrons of these long-standing businesses.

Not all of it is pretty. Some of it could make you throw up your cocktail and tater tots and sober up in a heartbeat. Some of it might make you laugh.

Are you ready for my tales of drunkenness, madness, suicide and worker exploitation?  In other words, are you ready for the reality rather than the romanticism of Portland's bar culture?

I didn't think so. Therefore, I'll spare you.

BTW, the best bar in Portland from my perspective, because I worked there and because the owner paid a decent (livable) wage and implemented a profit-sharing incentive, didn't make this list.

To be fair, I've met some of the best people I know in bars, but I've met even more stupid people and greedy bastards who would rather rob you blind than acknowledge your humanity.


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Essay of the Day

Shortly after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, George W. Bush told a Joint Session of Congress that “they” did it because “they hate our freedom.”  Everybody knew who “they” were.--AL

A must-read essay from one of our best political philosophers.

Levine provides the rope; Trump will likely use it, finally.

Here's the rest of the story. Go to the bar, log in, read until you're drunk with goodness.


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Ultimate Shithead

But the conservative Atlantic Magazine adores him, kinda.


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Headliners!

An incredible two-hitter by freshman sensation Kevin Abel leads Oregon State to the College World Series championship over Arkansas in Omaha!

This is OSU's third title, all of them achieved in head-coach Pat Casey's tenure at the Corvallis baseball factory.

The ESPN story.

They've done this in the rainy Pacific Northwest, folks, where baseballs are wet and slow and often covered in mud.  A minor miracle.

Congrats Beavs!!


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On the Retirement of Anthony Kennedy

Let freedom ring.


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Street Gang

Listen carefully to Hedges as he talks about the WP and Bezo's concoction called PropOrNot, a slanderous website that attempts to make every left-journalist in the USA a Russian propagandist at sites like CounterPunch, where I have published.

I assure you folks, particularly you ignoramuses, I am neither a Russian agent nor an anti-American propagandist; furthermore, I am well aware that elites from either U.S. Party would love to make me so.

So, as part of America's recently debated civil discourse, I also say, "fuck them."


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CWS: Tonight?

According to the weatherman Oregon State vs. Arkansas should be a College World Series go tonight (4 pm PT ESPN) in Omaha.

Monday night's first game was rained out.

Problem is, the weather can change fast in the Midwest, as anyone who has ever spent time there can attest.

I hope they get it in, and I'm rooting for OSU, naturally.

The Beavs won back-to-back titles in '06 and '07.  They're due again.


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Painting Glimpsed in a Gallery Window

Portland Art Museum sales gallery.


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Bikefest

In the South Park Blocks.


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Futbol Follies

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Gaggle of Goofs

Jackasses conducted by a moron.

It doesn't get any better than this, ladies and gentlemen. (Looks like a Klan meeting, doesn't it?)

#preachingtothechoir


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Dark Mistress

At sea in a growing storm.


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Shit Clown Plus

The "Wacko Bird" from Texas.


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Contemptible Cretin

Shit for brains.


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Vile Toad

One of many, unfortunately.

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