Portlandia launched just as the recession ended, so it does coincide with a lot of gentrification, but correlation is not causation. Oh noes, the city his highly desirable and now the prices are going up. It must be that comedy show on deep cable that did it!

It doesn't. They used to get by on book sales for women's studies classes back when the university could force students to buy from them. Plus they're a non-profit run entirely by volunteers - which is also why you went from friendly feminists willing to poke fun at themselves six years ago to GFY emails today. New…