This year’s charity pro football underdog game is in the history books, and prize checks have gone out to our winners’ chosen charities. They are:First prize: Shoeshine Boy – $400 – LAFD Foundation Emergency Wildfire FundSecond prize: Air – $125 – Sandy High School Boys’ Golf TeamThird prize (tie): Annie B. – $50 – Toni’s
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Trumpy Joe gets a job
Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. HA HA HA HA HAAAHAAAAA!I refuse to get sucked into Mudface Caligula’s crapshow. But I can’t not report that the two-time loser from Clark County now has an above-board paycheck, sorta. Another fine Republican hero. I feel so much safer.
Grandpa's having another one of his spells
Your Saturday night comedy…Pretty much a guarantee that nothing will be done about it.And then there’s the other New Yorker:
Farewell to the Jersey Journal
How it looked, except the Radio Shack was a Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee shop.The Jersey Journal, the (almost) daily newspaper in Hudson County, New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, is going out of business. Tomorrow is its last day. It’s been published since 1867. There have been many rumors over…
Return of the nucle-heads
I see that voters in Oregon may be asked to revisit whether we want nuclear power. For decades, the standing answer has been no, but the push to get away from fossil fuels can make atom-busting look better than it used to.Even if you assume that new plant designs will eliminate operational safety concerns –…
Clouds down under
Jannik Sinner of Italy won the Australian Open men’s singles tennis tournament over the weekend, beating Sascha Zverev of Germany in straight sets. Sinner, the world’s no. 1-ranked singles player, showed off his impressive game, taking control early and leaving no doubt about how the match would come out. Zverev forced a tiebreaker in the…
She did it
Groundhog Year
Ready to get out there and wreck stuff.It’s an important day in Portland history. As I expected, and feared, the black-bloc brats were back on the streets last night. Some of them made speeches and wandered around, and some of them started spray-painting their profundities on buildings and who-knows-whatever-else. It was the second night this…
Right on cue
I can’t bear to watch the horror show unfolding in Washington, D.C. There’s nothing any right-thinking person can do about it. But it’s getting me worried about what’s ahead for little old Portland.The crazies are starting up their destruction of the city again. The other night they absolutely trashed the Multnomah County elections office,…
Here are the Week 20 underdog picks
The Big Daddies of American pro football are down to their Elite Eight. That means the players in our charity game had only four underdogs to choose from this week. And here is what they said:9.5 WASHINGTON at Detroit – Linda, Gordon, Buster Dog-las, Annie B., Oredogger, Roger Goodell, Shoeshine Boy8.5 HOUSTON at Kansas City…
