*returns fist bump*

Yeah, it was oddly comforting that the first nurse I dealt with at the IHS clinic was an Alaskan Native woman who happened to be blonde and pale-skinned (like me), it took away a lot of the “what are you doing here, white boy?” feeling, and reminded me that plenty of families have a history like…

Guys like this piss me off something fierce.

I’m the most white-presenting member of my mother’s family (I take more after my Scandinavian grandfather than do my cousins). I have struggled most of my adult life with how much of that part of my heritage I’m “allowed” to participate in before it becomes appropriation. …

In Oregon, (or my part of it, at least), we call them all “Otter Pops” after the most popular brand. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a generic term for them other than, perhaps, “off-brand Otter Pops”, “fake Otter Pops” or “wannabe Otter Pops.”

My response (from “Dr. Octavious Mousepractice of Intercourse, PA”) consisted primarily of the word “shitty” pasted via holding ctrl-v for the entire length of a song on the radio.

With an additional request that they leave a country they are unworthy of to make room for an immigrant or refugee who would better at…

Excellent. Also be aware that, even in the best of times, our public transportation suuuuuuuucks, so hopefully your bars of choice are close to your hotel. :)

After the fall of the USSR, the Russians actually did something really cool to address the problem of old soviet monuments: a statue graveyard. I visited the one in Moscow, and it was fascinating and informative on the context under which those statues were first erected without lauding that contexxt.

You are the reason I have to miss my therapy that week. Well, you and about 200,000 other people. :)

On a more serious note, you should probably be aware that we in Newport/Lincoln City/Depoe Bay are not ready for that many people and that our emergency services are going to be stretched well past their limit and will…

I live in Lincoln City, OR, a small resort town on the coast, which is among the first places on the west coast it will hit a very close to the center of totality. We are expecting 100,000-200,000 people for a town with a year-round population of just under 9000. While he have higher capacity than that thanks to…

At a Mariners-Rangers game at the Kingdome in the early 90's, my Dad decided to wear a glove to help 8 year-old me try and catch a foul ball hit off Nolan Ryan, who I was obsessed with.

My father, who was a good enough third baseman to be offered a minor league contract coming out of high school, managed to have *4*…

Ours too! Though it caught up with them and they eventually got their entire schedule cancelled the year after one of the vans bringing them back from a game got pulled over... It turns out the police frown upon all the passengers in a van having an open container (but not the driver, at least we could get that…

And even what you linked for something that woulnd’t pass the bar includes a critique of the house “Did the hunter green walls and wallpaper give it away.” I.E. the green makes it obvious the house was built in the 1990s (apparently... I know nothing about home design).

Life-long Oregonian who has friends involved in midwifery...

My guess is that they were calling themselves midwives, as your description of your provincial system sounds pretty close to what my friends had to go through to work in Oregon.

I’m enjoying the mental image of the Trump-thing being called a Gypsy Whore and it being slapped across its face-analogue.

You (and MikePenseNoneTheRicher) are talking about *is* when everyone else is talking about ought.

I don’t really see anyone arguing about whether it is true that NFL and most other businesses choose the nihilistic pursuit of profit over any seen to common good or respect for individuals. It is plainly obvious that…

According to Sandman, they are working towards a return to the glorious past.

My Jewish friends always explained it to me as being a product as a persecuted minority. It blunted (though obviously didn’t stop) the ability to use rape as a weapon of genocide if any children were going to be considered just as Jewish as they would with a Jewish biological father.

I’m pretty sure if Alaska was represented at actual size, that light blue half would reduce the red percentage too.

If you would be so kind as to give your organs to decent people who could use them, that would be great.

Any map that has the 503 area code as anything other than Burgerville is incorrect.

And, of course, the relevant (and some irrelevant that could still be fun) documents/video/audio/testimony, etc. would be subject to the discovery process, which they probably don’t want either.