Like a long, scoreless soccer match finally heading to sudden death, Portland is on the brink of a result on Portland Beavers and Timbers owner Merritt PaulsonÂ’s proposal to bring Major League Soccer to town.... From Willamette Week....

Thanks to Towleroad for sharing the image below.  I suppose the reference to Dan White, Harvey Milk and George Moscone’s killer, continues to have cultural relevance for some homophobic assholes. Unbelievable. Dan White = Hero? Really? I was thinking more like “Dan White = Domestic Terr...

The country had had a bellyful of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the messengers of darkness in Washington who had sold out the principles of the Republican Party in favor of huge deficits, a doubling of the national debt, and a growing intrusion of the federal government into people's pri...

Having failed the daunting task of making John McCain’s campaign seem up-to-date on technology, Republican e-campaign director Cyrus Krohn is done with the party. In a parting blog post, Krohn said the GOP needs to match Dems “programmer-for-programmer,” and right now the party sto...

Kathy Bates Sheila Blair Maggie Rodriguez This morning on The Early Show on CBS, Harry Smith was interviewing Sheila Blair, chairman of the FDIC. Sheila looks a lot like Kathy Bates. She and Harry were doing their damnedest to assure all of us that money in federally insured banks is safe (up to $25...

I get it, but I'm too dumb to opine on it: The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. ESPECIALLY too stupid to opine on the following comment re: said video: This explains the symptoms of the problem and what caused it. Just notice that the FIRST STEP was manipulation by the fede...

Republican Greg Ball Finds Dead Goat With Note Attached Outside His Home A state assemblyman said he found a dead goat outside his suburban New York home and believes it represents a death threat against him. Republican Greg Ball said Friday he has been battling corruption in Putnam County and belie...

Now for today's entertainment. Sen. David Vitter, the anti-gay Louisiana Republican implicated as a long--term client of prostitutes in the DC Madam scandal, returns to the news. With "his reelection campaign looming" the Washington Post reports the adulterous right-winger "seeks......

Who doesn’t love academic research about porn? A recent study by Benjamin G. Edelman, Harvard prof and former student, found that if you live in a “red state,” you’re more likely to subscribe to a porn site than if you live in a “blue state.” And by “red sta...

With the DOW up about 150 points today at the close, and optimism flowing about how China’s Government will pump up their economy soon, it is very tempting to think the worst is now behind us. Tempting because it’s probably true, at least for the next several years. My view (as usual wit...