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OREGON EXPERIMENT: WHO WALKS TWO THOUSAND MILES

July 28, 2020 by

Every state, every nation, has a creation story, but none have the Oregon Experiment. “Come to Oregon, it will be fun,” said no one on a wagon train. Was Oregon really an experiment?

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TOP POST, A DAILY REMINDER OF PRIORITIES

July 27, 2020 by

A top post on any blog during this turbulent month, and the one before, and probably the one after, ought to be about this. Or this. BoomerPDX top post, top priority, is here to see. Look to the sidebar.

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AMERICAN CITY ON THE LEFT COAST: PORTLAND

July 26, 2020 by

Normandy, not Portland Portland, Oregon is an American city on the west coast. Not too big, not too small, but just right for a big rural state on the edge of the North American continent. (Think top left corner of America. That’s Seattle. Everybody knows Seattle. Portland is down from there.) For an extra reminder, […]

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FIRST PITCH JUDGEMENT? WARM UP YOUR ARM

July 25, 2020 by

The ceremonial first pitch of the baseball season brings out the critics; then when it goes wrong they feel justified. That an older man doesn’t bring the high inside heat, or snap off a sharp hook across the plate seems like failure to critics. All they want is more. Look, we all want more, but […]

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AMERICAN STORY FROM THE LEFT COAST

July 24, 2020 by

Listen hard enough and the sound of progress is the American story. But coming from the wrong mouth to the wrong ears, the story gets twisted a different direction. Is progress defined as making new discoveries to help more people live better lives? I’m going with that until you, dear reader, come up with something […]

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PORTLAND PROTEST SCORECARD FOR THOSE PLAYING AT HOME

July 23, 2020 by

Portland Mayor Image via boing boing Portland protest review: Last night Portland mayor Ted Wheeler hit the streets. How did it go? He got heckled and gassed for his effort. In short, it didn’t go well. What the hell, Portland, if the mayor joins in, where’s the welcome mat? Would past mayors fare as well […]

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AGING PARENT PROTESTS GETTING OLD

July 22, 2020 by

An aging parent is the hardest part for kids growing up. We like them in their prime years, when they could do anything, and did. The part the kids never understand is how long we get to be an aging parent.

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PORTLAND DREAM DIES? NO, THIS ISN’T DETROIT, BUFFALO, OR MINNEAPOLIS

July 21, 2020 by

Big question: Is the Portland Dream dead? From a coin flip on the banks of the Willamette River, to a human shield of protest moms downtown, what was the dream to begin with? It’s a big question, one that gets asked when the biggest town in the state pulls a federal response to Black Lives […]

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ROBIN RICHARDS TO THE RESCUE

July 19, 2020 by

Robin Richards top row center. Image via teamusa.org I grew up in a small Oregon town that had one big team, the wrestling team. And I wasn’t a wrestler, not yet. Instead, I played ball, the usual ball. And not very well, which made me question if I’d ever be more than washed up at […]

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MASK REMINDER FOR THE HARD OF LEARNING

July 18, 2020 by

This mask reminder comes via a piece of wood and duck bones. The wood is Doug Fir bark, the tree that made Oregon famous, after all it’s the State Tree. Boomerpdx customers have seen this image before. It has it’s own history, like most everything else.

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