America’s Best New BBQ includes Ox in Portland, OR. The centerpiece of this northeast Portland newcomer—inspired by Argentina rather than Texas, Memphis, or Kansas City—is the custom-made, wood-fired grill, a massive stainless-steel beast from Ann Arbor–based Grillworks. Grab a counter seat in front of the acti

Best Italian Restaurants in the U.S. includes Caffe Mingo, Portland, OR. Dinner at 8? Not if you want a table at Caffé Mingo. Showing up at 5pm has been the rule for some time at Michael Cronan’s spot. The menu is celebrated for fresh ingredients, subtle shifts on classic Italian comfort food, and nuanced elaboratio

Day 89 of the sequester and we are all still here. Here’s a story that will make you mad and then shake your head at government stupidity. Seems that furloughed workers, a result of the sequester, are eligible for unemployment compensation. We furloughed workers to save money and yet we have to pay them because [...]

M1.8 - 12km S of Sweet Home, Oregon Time 2013-05-28 11:08:59-07:00 Location 44.281°N 122.733°W Depth 0.0km

M4.0 - Off the coast of Oregon Time 2013-05-24 22:51:01-07:00 Location 44.552°N 129.567°W Depth 10.7km M4.1 - Off the coast of Oregon Time 2013-05-25 04:50:55-07:00 Location 44.468°N 129.682°W Depth 10.0km

M3.3 - 55km E of McDermitt, Nevada ShakeMap - IV Time 2013-05-23 13:56:31-07:00 Location 41.987°N 117.051°W Depth 0.0km

There’s quite a swarm going on in Greenville, Calif. initiated by two fairly large quakes: 4.9 11km WNW of Greenville, California 2013-05-24 01:02:19-07:00 0.0 km deep 5.7 11km WNW of Greenville, California 2013-05-23 20:47:08-07:00 11.0 km deep An article in Wired by Subscribe Erik Klemetti is an assistant profe

sugar is smoking by Jason Schneiderman it’s amazing how death is always around the corner, or not even so far away as that, hiding in the little pleasures that some of us would go so far as to say are the only things keeping us alive

M1.7 - 6km SSW of Odell, Oregon Time 2013-05-21 12:24:21-07:00 Location 45.581°N 121.584°W Depth 0.0km

From Oregon’s dumb-ass senior senator comes this comment: Sen. Wyden: If You Don’t Want IRS Hassles, Don’t Apply for Tax Exempt Status “Of course, it is only conservative groups who were singled out by the IRS.”

M1.4 - 0km ESE of Metzger, Oregon Time 2013-05-21 07:26:46-07:00 Location 45.444°N 122.748°W Depth 18.9km

Monday May 20 2013, 20:08:01 UTC 4 hours ago Oregon 1.5 27.3 USGS Feed Detail

Sunday May 19 2013, 15:45:53 UTC 4 hours ago offshore Oregon 1.8 39.8 USGS Feed Detail

Pfeiffer never answers the question! Where was the President? Obama can find time to call Jason Collins and congratulate him for coming “out,” but he seems to be missing as our men are killed.

I want a woman president, if she is qualified. It’s about time, but not Hillary Clinton. I believe she is incompetent and immoral and if you think Obama abuses power, it would be nothing compared to this lady, and I use that term loosely. Here’s a report about the Benghazi review (ARB) that not only lies [...]

Best Books Of May

“Fourteen months ago, (Sen.) Merkley (D-OR) joined six other Democratic senators in writing then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman to urge the agency to tighten its standards for allowing groups to operate as a 501(c)(4). The senators said the agency should better define its requirement that the groups not engage in po

Michael Jackson - Lara Logan gets a rare look at some of the personal effects of the late pop singer, whose brand is making more money in death than the King of Pop was earning later in his free-spending life. John Hamlin is the producer. Watch a preview

194 pages Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (April 15, 2012) Tom Winton has written another great novel that kept me riveted, “The Last American Martyr.” His main character, Tom Soles, has written a book, “Enough is Enough,” that excoriates the stock market and Capitalism. Tom Soles writes about

1.5 7km WNW of Molalla, Oregon 2013-05-13 11:21:58-07:00 26.2 km deep

· 226 pages · Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 14, 2011) Tom Winton writes about a part of my life again in “Beyond Nostalgia.” In the first half of the book Dean Cassidy looks back forty years at his hard childhood and the only bright spark in it, the day he met Theresa Wayman. [...]

The Vacation by Wendell Berry of Kentucky Once there was a man who filmed his vacation. He went flying down the river in his boat with his video camera to his eye, making a moving picture of the moving river upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly toward the end of his vacation. He showed his vacation to his camera, which [

In a new book, “Rumsfeld’s Rules, Leadership lessons in Business, Politics, War and Life,” former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld says it isn’t just the IRS you should fear. Corporate leaders are wary of speaking out. They “…could expose themselves and their companies to government retalia

· 158 pages · Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (July 2, 2012) The title grabbed me: “Four Days with Hemingway’s Ghost.” Then when I read the blurb that after an accident Jack Phelan, in a coma for four days, spent those four days with Ernest Hemingway. I was hooked. Now, if the writing we

“Hillary Clinton knew the the Benghazi attack was an act of terrorism, and yet she (told) a father of one of the slain Americans that she would make certain that the man who made the YouTube video would be prosecuted. (And she made this statement in the presence of Barack Obama as well) [...]