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Redistricting Oregon: A 6D-0R Map with legislative Superdupermajority
Oregon, my home state, is pretty good politically. We’ve had vote-by-mail for decades, and automatic registration for a good while, too. It’s easy to vote here, and so Democrats regularly win large...
View ArticleFROM THE KOS SONGBOOK: We Didn't Start the 2020 Fire
Baby Yoda, Good PlaceTrump impeached and in disgraceWelcome 2020, what could possibly go wrong?Cory Booker out of luck,Cats the movie: what the fuck?Brexit happens, Meghan and Harry say "So long" Drone...
View ArticleFORBIDDEN WORDS, 2020
AlabastardAll Lives MatterAnarcho-CommunistAnd I still don't have a toasterAutogolpeBiden Crime FamilyBranch CovidiansBoomer removerCancel cultureCarnistCopagandaCoronacoasterCovidiotDay ____ of...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: The Devil Calls Down to Georgia
The Devil called down to Georgia,He was making more deals with NewtHe was running blind, he was falling behindAnd he'd lost his last lawsuitSo he locked himself in his officeAnd he called Brad...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, December 2020
The Last of the Great Books: The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell; The Nature of Life, by Conrad H. Waddington; Structural Anthropology, by Claude Levi-Strauss; The Waste Land , by TS Eliot...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: "You May Be White"
Monday night you went to DCTuesday you became all greasyWednesday you rushed in without a planYou were brandishing your gunThought a Civil War'd be funYou will be remembered as the Coup Klutz KlanI saw...
View ArticleMonthly Book Post, February 2021
Happenings 1: Females, by Andrea Long ChuEveryone is female, and everyone hates it. If this is true, then gender is simply the form that this self-loathing takes in any given case. All gender is...
View ArticleMonthly Bookybook Post, March 2021
In Which Beowulf Gives Literally Zero Fucks: Beowulf, translated by Maria Dahvana Headley I'm the strongest and the boldest and the bravest and the best Yes. I mean, I MAY have bathed in the blood of...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: C-PAC Chanty
Me name it is Matt Gaetz as I failed, as I failedO, me name it is Matt Gaetz, as I failedO, me name it is Matt GaetzAnd I tempted the three fatesNow my consequence awaits, as I fail I lived in Fort...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, April 2021
The Savage Noble: Tarzan of the Apes, by Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the Apes stroked her soft hair and tried to comfort and quiet her as Kala had him, when, as a little ape, he had been frightened...
View ArticleFrom the Kos Songbook: The Wreck of the SS Homophobic
The Legend lives on from the Sasquatch on downIn the Washington lake they call MosesAnd Karma, they say, on Memorial DayComes much earlier than one supposes!Memorial Day in Grant County, they sayWas a...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, May 2021
Dem Bones Goan' Rise Again: Harrow the Ninth, by Tamsyn MuirAll I can say is that it was complicated back in Canaan House, and sometimes a cute older girl shows you a lot of attention, because she's...
View ArticleMonthly BookPost, June 2021
A New York State of Mind: the City We Became, by NK JemisinThey hit Second Avenue at Spanish Harlem. Working-class neighborhood, late on a weeknight; Bronca's unsurprised to see that the streets are...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, July 2021
Just The Warts: American Rule (How a nation conquered the world but failed its people), by Jared Yates SextonThere was a sense that capitalism had all but conquered the United States, a feeling that...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, August 2021
Critical Race Theory: Caste, by Isabel Wilkerson"America is an old house. We can never declare the work over. Wind, flood, drought, and human upheavals batter a structure that is already fighting...
View ArticleOregon Republicans rescue Democrats from themselves in redistricting fight
Politics in Oregon mirrors politics in DC: Democrats: Oh please, please negotiate with us! We'll pre-emptively redraw the Congressional boundaries in your favor so you don't have to! Republicans: No....
View ArticleOregon Democrats cave to the Republican minority in redistricting, preserve...
Today, the Oregon legislature, with a 3/5 majority in both houses, and the ability to control the redistricting process decided, in the interest of bipartisanship, to make traitor Dem Kurt Schraeder’s...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, September 2021
Pin the Tail on Your Inner Donkey: Awaken the Giant Within, by Tony RobbinsWhat you're doing is not producing the result you want, and you have to change your approach. Remember that your perceptions...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, October 2021
SuperMom: I'm Not Starfire, by Mariko Tamaki and Yoshi Yoshitani"And this...is Claire. What can you say about Claire that doesn't make you sound like the voice-over for a teen movie?"I reflexively put...
View ArticleMonthly Bookpost, November 2021
Words of wisdom: Unpopular Essays, by Bertrand Russell"The idea that falsehood is edifying is one of the besetting sins of those who draw up educational schemes. I should not myself consider that a man...
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