Portland does at least actually have good coffee and beer instead of just an undeserved reputation for it.

I grew up in and around Seattle. As a kid, I got mocked for wearing Seahawks stuff. I use to get upset because Seahawks games were blacked out. The Seahawks were like the Cleveland Browns but worse -with a small but vocal group of fans that rooted for of the shittiest teams.

This Ferguson idiocy is depressing as hell. All you folks carrying on about rioting and thugs need to thank your lucky stars that after centuries of slavery and injustice there are any black people left who actually love this country and who ask for nothing more than the fulfillment of "All men are created equal".

"He was reportedly in possession of "a pizza and a small amount of cash.""

During grad school I worked in a parking booth at the university hospital. It was usually a great job, I always took night shifts so that I was basically being paid to study. Nothing ever happened, really.

It is.

Good on you for writing it up this way. The name needs to come out, but it needs to be the correct name.

"There are reasons why white gun's rights activists can walk into a Chipotle restaurant with assault rifles and be seen as gauche nuisances while unarmed black men are killed for reaching for their wallets or cell phones, or carrying children's toys."

"Manifestation circles"? JESUS TAPDANCING CHRIST.

It's time to fight fire .... with puppies

On the plus side, it looks like he's finally gonna see some court time.

I have been known to cap off the odd evening out with an absurdly long walk home, if conditions permit. Returning on one occasion from some ludicrous social assignation or other, I was walking across London in the dead of night and was joined by a fox, which fell in beside me as if I were walking it (or as if we were…

I found out my now-fiance was cheating at our first Thanksgiving g together. We were at his parents house, playing card games. I got up to get a drink, and noticed he had extra cards in his hand. No, I didn't break up with him then and there. I should have. But I looked around, AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY WAS DOING THE SAME…

Enzo it begins

I grew up living several blocks from Thurman in Canton. I remember seeing him out in front of his house hitting tiny plastic golf balls that his older brother, Duane, would pitch to him for hours. Thurman would hit line drive after line drive. We both attended Worley School (along with Diane Dominik his future…

Helluva guitar player too