They decide who gets to walk on their sidewalk.

U.S. probe ties military workers to child porn"WASHINGTON — A U.S. government investigation has found that dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downlo

As seen by The New Yorker.

Wild Willy and Chaos, from downtown Albany, went to live with a family today. Good luck, boys!

I cannot believe the twists and turns going on in the case of the missing little boy Kyron Horman, up in Portland. Now, the cops and FBI are searching homes of her friends. I remember when he first went missing, a friend defending Terri, the stepmom, on the news, without so much as a mention of Kyron and the horror of him

I got back from my little vacation just in time t

We went to a Corvallis Knights baseball game on Thursday, July 22. General Admission tickets are

We went to a Corvallis Knights baseball game on Thursday, July 22. General Admission tickets are

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Pictures of the moon in Central Park Corvallis, Oregon during the Corvallis Community Band Tuesday N

Pictures of the moon in Central Park Corvallis, Oregon during the Corvallis Community Band Tuesday N

I think yesterday was probably my luckiest day yet. I'm still alive, after messing in a curcuit breaker box, worn out and frustrated, without bothering to read up on the dangers first. And I survived. Lucky! So today, I bought a lottery ticket. Maybe my luck is changing!A normal person would think "You know, even

The World of Wine (WOW) Festival, the Rogue Valley’s premier wine showcase, is scheduled for Saturday, August 28, 5:00-9:00 p.m., at Del Rio Vineyards, 52 N. River Rd. in Gold Hill. Some 40 wineries will participate. More than 750 people will attend the grand public tasting, which accompanies a professionally judged

Public approves.Homeless man breaks into abandoned bar, begins selling alcohol"A homeless man alle

I was still half under the influence today of something. I think it was the butt scoping prep fluid. Having diarrhea for 16 hours, self-induced, drained me of something, probably electrolytes. I could barely move today. Yet I had to.I had to fix the electric problems here. No choice. I shouldn't have been in that darn

Poster for Portland Center Stage

Gamma error in picture scaling "There is an error in most photography scaling algorithms." Wha? This is hard to believe. Aaron Swartz: The Political Philosophy of

Poll: Faith in Social Security system tanking"Battered by high unemployment and record home foreclosures, most Americans seem to have lost faith in another fundamental part of their personal finances:

I was thinking last night after I blogged about my childhood lunches.  This isn't exactly a subject worth dwelling on, but I did stop and think about it for a bit.  I was surprised at how little my lunches have changed over the years, yet I was really surprised to find what passes for lunch these days in public schools. 

Everything's a fucking myth, all meant to make us feel like penniless, abnormal outcasts.Half of Americans Have Less Than $2,000 Banked for Their Golden Years

U.S. credit card agreements unreadable to 4 out of 5 adults"Credit card agreements are written on average at a 12th grade reading level, making them not understandable to four out of five adults, according to a C

“By way of deception, thou shalt make love”"As we know the Mossad’s motto is ‘by way of deception, thou shalt do war.' However, as far as Palestinians are concerned, fibbing is not allowed . The Guardian reporte

Women Prepare to Set Sail Past Israel"BEIRUT, Jul 22, 2010 (IPS) - The 'Maryam', an all-female Lebanese aid ship, currently docked in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli, is getting ready to set sail for Gaza in the next few days. The ship, which aims

State Dept. planning to field a small army in Iraq"WASHINGTON — Can diplomats field their own army? The State Department is laying plans to do precisely that in Iraq, in an unprecedented experiment that U.S. offic

The other day I was browsing through the local Etsy shops and came across The Jaunty Gnome, based in Corvallis. I knew I had to share it here, because… well, just look: Is this not adorable?! Shop owner, Stephanie, writes a cute little story/description for each listing, such as the two “Nursery Visiting Gnomes&

Mayor declares every day a "Bring some bath tissue to work day" caution, it's FAUX"Things are getting so bad in Newark that the mayor has ordered the government to stop buying toilet paper.It'

Sheriff's deputies' disdain for Constitution captured by their own recorded comments"When San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Deputy Darren Murphy responded to a “shots fired” call in April 2008, he decided en route that he was going to make an arrest. He did far mo

Click post title to go to an article about how to diet in this new age of chemical everything. The article talks about pseudo estrogens. Finally! These are contained in common pesticides that end up in food we eat and products we use to contain food and water, like some plastics and some cans.Advice given is to avoid the

Tabitha is so beautiful and smart.

With skyrocketing prices and the higher cost of living, everyone is determined to make more money. One of the most common options is to get into MLM business.MLM or multilevel marketing is a direct selling kind of business that focuses more on building downlines and selling products. In other words, it does not mainly focus

Have you ever had a moment where all those scoldings your mother gave you sank in at the same time and made sense? I had one of those in the last couple weeks. All I have to say is, "dammit, my mother was right." I remember growing up and having to make my own lunch every day. Don't worry, no whining about hav

Oil spill cleanup gets help from local hair salons and waitresses"Suzana Pesa was disgusted by the images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that she saw on television. She jumped on the In

Illinois Town Wants To Outlaw Eye-Rolling"Next time you're in line at the grocery store and you roll your eyes at the person with two carts full of items refusing to leave the 10-items-or-fewer line, you migh

The butt scoping is over. Am glad. Loved the anesthesia, as always. Got a nice nap. Came home, and started pulling every ripe sungold cherry tomato out there off and eating them. They are sooo good! It's why I got two of that variety. I got them way too early. They were tiny plants and sickly looking and then the sp

Cops Beat Man After He Finds His Son Dead caution, FAUX video"LOGANVILLE, Ga. – A man says he called Loganville police to his home

It's been only a little over a day since I ate last. 7:00 p.m. Monday night. I had some cereal. Nothing after that, because today I was supposed to eat nothing and I haven't. But oh my gosh, my stomach is growling like a cat fight. The rescued kittens here stare at my stomach, then run.I am dreaming of all sorts of fo

I can't live here anymore. I have been trying to find another place. It was a mistake to rent from family. I feel like such a burden when there are repairs needing done. My brother has no work. I don't feel right bugging him, like with these electrical problems. I don't know what to do anymore. The only thing I can d

I can't stand reading stories about young people drowning or dying in car wrecks. I just hate to think of parents' shrieking, friends sobbing, of young lives snuffed out before they really begin. It's even worse when it's gang related huff n puff shootings, you know, fence top males yowling, only with humans in gangs, the

One of the downfalls to not being glued to Facebook every six seconds is that I am not at my computer as much to blog. I still think about blog posts and write things down in my head, but I just don't spend my evenings clicking away anymore. The good news is that I'm actually living life, whether I'm cooking more or spend

BP photoshops fake photo of crisis command center, posts on main BP site "In all seriousness, an astute reader noticed that the meta info for the photo says it was created in 2001, not July 16, 2010 as claimed on BP's site.

Greek hotels kick out unruly Israeli teens"Israel continues to lose popularity in overseas vacation resorts. Israeli Consul in Athens Eli Sneh informed t

Viking 1 landed on MarsThis positively thrilled me at the time, before I realized how duplicitous NASA really was, and before the soil test results were too dangerous and had to be squelched. The fact that a probe from earth had landed on another planet so far

Lyons street torti, very pregnant."Fluffy" a former stray taken in by a resident of that street, but he needed neutered.Lebanon male kitten being fixed today.I took up six cats today to be fixed at the Salem clinic. I felt bad afterwards. I had made apointments for both today and Friday but this had been a mista

We are very excited to announce the release of our latest website, The Scientific War Work of Linus C. Pauling:  A Documentary History.  The fifth in our documentary history series, the project took us nearly thirteen months to complete. As with the previous four documentary histories, the war site is comprised of a Narra

If you are in the Portland area, check out the 2010 Tour de Coops event this Saturday from 11am-3pm. There will be 25 backyard chicken coops all over East Portland open for a self-guided tour.