Bezobrazia: Formless without Image As a teenager, I dressed very strangely. Wearing exceedingly baggy pants, often with holes in unruly places and earth-tone tee shirts that swayed easily around my frail, 6’2, 140 lbs frame, I sometimes sported a red, green, black, and red beanie cap. It was in solidarity with the Third World...
Read more →On September 12, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to fluoridate the municipal water supply. Local newspapers have created a very unbalanced public debate, publishing numerous editorials in support of fluoridation while downplaying or ignoring the concerns of pesky protestors. TAKE BACK THE TAP! (WE DON’T WANT IT ANYMORE.) In 2009, students at Portland...
Read more →Toward Values Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly will be going head to head in a debate next month. Before we get too excited, let’s examine the current political economic realities that we face as a society. Here is David Harvey’s seventh lecture on Reading Capital. He gets into the nuances of Capital Vol. 2...
Read more →Sweet Police Sauce Today, as the follow-up posting to the post on bagels, I would like to write in the Heideggerio-Foucaultian vein about being as donuts, and how they pertain to the criminal justice system. The crucial thing to start out with is the bagel’s relationship to the donut. The circular shape of the...
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In the debate about coal exports in the Pacific Northwest, we are subtly being reintroduced to a familiar Oregon quasi-political engine Brian Gard, who was formerly of the notorious ad agency Gard & Gerber. Now president of PR firm Gard Communications, he currently serves as one of the spokespersons for Ambre Energy’s Morrow-Pacific Project,...
Read more →Earlier today, a friend asked why it was that rich people with business experience were always treated like they were experts on everything, regardless of its relation to their business. How do we go from business experience in steel, software, or pharmaceuticals to expert advice on education, economics and international development? Frankly, I am...
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