As happens every so often, I think I’ve reached a point at which I should stop blogging, at least for a while. The political scene at every level is such a disaster now, and there’s no sign of any of it improving any time soon. Rather than summon up the energy to chronicle the daily
Jack Bogdanski
There's a place right across town, whenever you're ready
Here’s a news story as old as dirt: The animal rights advocates are still trying to get OHSU to shut down its monkey experiment operation out in Hillsboro. This fight goes way, way back. Twenty years ago, a group was calling for a boycott of OHSU over the issue. Now the critics are trying to…
Any year now
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled last week that Measure 114, the 2022 gun control ballot measure that narrowly passed, is constitutional. The appeals court reversed some judge out in Greater Idaho who found problems with it.It’s taken something like 855 days to get to this stage of the legal proceedings, and they’re not…
The arc of the moral universe is long
There’s news this week about the Michael Francke murder. Phil Stanford, the career journalist who’s spent about half of his life unearthing the truth about it, has the latest details here, and he tells it way better than I could. If you’ve followed the case, you should go over there and read what he’s…
"I was expected to jump if DOGE told me to jump"
Here’s an affidavit in an ongoing lawsuit. It gives a taste of what’s been happening in the federal government over the last seven weeks. If you don’t think this is dangerous, well, you’tre going to find out pretty soon. Maryland v. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; No. 1:25-cv-00748UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLANDDECLARATION OF…
He's one of ours
I see that Eric Ueland, the guy whom Mudface Caligula has nominated to be deputy director for management in the Office of Management and Budget, is a Northeast Portland boy from back in the day. He was Central Catholic Class of ’84. Then he went off to the Jesuits at the University of San Francisco,…
Eliminating the middleman
Here’s an interesting story out of the Weed. Portland’s “prosperity” agency is planning to stop handing out money to an outfit called Venture Portland, which supports business districts around the city. Until I read this story, I had never heard of Venture Portland. But it’s part of the vast shadow government in Portland, the…
Goin' fishin'
Ding dong! The mail’s here. Including some lovely correspondence from Portland’s cutthroat revenue bureau.It’s a mailer reminding anyone who should open it that they might, just maybe, owe the city’s hideous $35-a-year annual head tax for the arts. Then again, they might not, but just in case, they get a letter, a tax form,…
Email outage
Despite my best efforts, Comcast has closed my email account for this blog. I’ll try to get it restored. For the time being, at least, I can be reached at jackbogsblog2@gmail.com. Sorry for any trouble caused for readers.
Sticking her neck out
I see that Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the Congresswoman from the ‘Couve, was one of the 10 Democratic members of the House who voted to censure their colleague from Texas, Al Green, for shaking his cane and shouting at Mudface Caligula at the State of the (Soviet) Union speech the other night. The lefties in the…
