My daughter told me alpacas hum when stressed. I thought she was kidding. Then I met a small herd of the little sweeties. I told her they hum cause they can’t remember the words....I will be going now.

I agree. We all vote by mail in Oregon. It is so much better than going to the polls. The only voter fraud I have heard of in Oregon was in the last election. A poll worker decided to fill in some empty spots on ballots, you know, where the voter had skipped voting on a race. She was republican and said she was just…

The Greeks? The Greeks will inherit the earth?

Mine as well. And I generally have no patience for conspiracy theories. This just feels wrong.

He never had to care about ithers before! Why should he care about a bunch of loooozers?

This photo is how I will always think of hizzoner.

Read Terry Pratchett’s Men at Arms. In the story, a legendary inventive genius a la da Vinci invents “the gonne”. The problem is the gonne affects the user’s thoughts and makes him paranoid. The gonne starts thinking for itself. It is a brilliant satire on how having the power over the lives of others distorts and…

McDonald’s coffee was so hot that they had received repeated messages from various doctors and health agencies to decrease the temperature to avoid severely burning customers. The woman who sued was in serious to critical condition from the third degree burns her soilled coffee caused. She had multilpe surgeries and…

My tablet won’t let me post the clip. See his reaction to President Obama joking about DJTs birtherism at the WH Correspondents Dinner. He can’t stand to be teased, joked about, or laughed at. He decided to run based, in large part, on that night, when a Black man had the nerve to ridicule him. He is a stupid racist…

Amen to that. My mother was shamed for having gotten pregnant in HS. She was sent to an awful late 1940s Catholic home for fallen women. Her child was taken from her a few weeks after he was born. For a few weeks the nuns had the moms breastfeed their infants, why not save on formula, right? Then, one day, her baby…

Olde white woman here, sigh, yes, white people can’t see the entitlement that extends around each one of us like a minefield for POC.

When at first you don’t exceed, try, try again.

Back in the late 70s I worked at a bar above Georgetown. I remember this small town guy visiting his friend the secret service agent. I remember him as one of a series of mediocre men who bellied up to my bar. He was going on and on about a former first lady and what a “whore” she was for staying with man “for the…

Thug is a generic term for a violent villain. It comes from India. There was a sect of strongman assassins known as thuggees. They roamed across India for hundreds of years. In this case there is no racist implication.

I once came up with the idea of starting a business that would“rent a thug coach” to burst into your room at dawn and make you jog. You know, when we were getting of cocaine and starting to exercise? Anyone?

This doesn’t surprise me. Portland is becoming so impossible. The rents are beyond what local incomes can support, our city council, mayor, and state government are corrupt, unaccountable to the public, and incompetent. Our property taxes on a 1540 sft house were 3k last year. Our WATER bill is $500/3 month in the PNW…

Under the Oregon constitution, it was illegal for POC to live in the state until the state was forced to change its constitution in 1929. The Chinese settlements in eastern Oregon were burned down in the latter 19th C once the rails were finished. It is an unacknowledged fact that this state was settled by the whites…

This little shitheel is lucky this olde white lady didn’t see him. I would have shown him what that crap was really like when I was a kid. I fucking hate these entitled weasels. I love the brother making the comments on the longer video. “Look at him! He’s so scaared!” Burn, baby, burn.

I wish I could answer this. I think all people are capable of doing the absolute best or worst things imaginable. I think there is a subset of every privileged group that got there without effort but believe they “earned” whatever success they’ve enjoyed. They are often the meanest and laziest a-holes around. I have…

I don’t think a 5 or 6 year old even sees social differences. I started talking about segregation, slavery, etc with my kids as part of reading to them as kids. I exposed them to African Americans in art and literature, as well as American history. I was lucky that we lives in the DC metro region. I made sure they saw…