Aliens in America (and the Rest of the World): ‘V’
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Deadly Absurdity in Iraq
The Iraq war has reached new levels of absurd corruption. The New York Times reports that the U.S. funded Iraqi government spent $85 million on plastic-coated cardboard divining rods to Ouija bombs and guns at checkpoints: Continue reading
Catch-Up Catch-All Blog Post of Doom! MusicfestNW, Dollhouse 2.3 “Belle Chose” and Oregon authors
The number of things I haven’t found time to blog about in the last few months — hey, it’s Best of Eugene, and a girl only has so many hours in the week! — is nearing moderately frightful but not yet epic proportions. I think it’s time for a Catch-All Catch-Up Post. It’s cleansing for one and all! And when it’s over, I can feel free to write about Wordstock and the men’s basketball team without guilt! MFNW! Continue reading
‘Dollhouse’ 2.1 & 2.2, “Vows” & “Instinct”
Oh, Joss Whedon. Continue reading
Did Knight Just Do It For Blount?
UO football coach Chip Kelly announced today that he may allow a player who punched an opponent and threw an embarrassing violent fit on national TV to play for the UO after all. Continue reading
LEEDing us Astray?
LEED certification for supposed leading work on green buildings, a focus of the city of Eugene, is facing criticism. Las Vegas Weekly reports on LEED Gold certification by the private U.S. Green Building Council for two new Las Vegas Casinos. The paper writes: “Giant buildings that welcome and encourage the extravagant, wasteful behavior of thousands of guests at the same time hardly seem like a recipe for saving Mother Earth.” Continue reading
Texting While Driving While Cop
Here’s a gory example of what can happen with texting while driving: Wow. Who could be so irresponsible, so unsafe, such a danger to society? Continue reading
MFNW Friday: DUDE, SHUT UP. Also, The Thermals win the weekend.
So I’m still recovering. STILL. Sleep schedule thrown off. Ears hearing things funny. And Friday? Friday is to blame for a lot of this. (Thursday went like this.) Continue reading
MFNW Thursday: Portlanders & Scotsmen
You know what’s hard to come by during Musicfest NW? Time. Time to do anything like, say, blog. There’s plenty of time to stand around impatiently as the band before your favorite band seems to play forever and you’re stuck sweating and trying to sip a beer slowly, but when Frightened Rabbit goes on at 12:30 in the morning (in theory) and you, as a result, sleep in so late you almost miss lunch, well, shit, my friends, you run out of time. Continue reading
Oregon Freedom of Information Law Isn’t
Is the state freedom of information law free? No, the Oregon Attorney General’s office charges $25 a pop for the public’s document and has refused to put a free download online. UO Economics Professor Bill Harbaugh—a longtime critic of UO athletic and administrative spending and affirmative action—didn’t like that. So he scanned the whole AG manual on the law and put it on his blog. Continue reading