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Another Moment Of All American Serendipitous Patriotism

“If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done had you lived during the era of slavery, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights Movement — whether you’d have stood & spoken up; whether you’d have intervened to help someone or been complicit in harming them through your silence — you have your answer. […]

All American Moment Of Serendipitous Patriotism

One fine summer day in Philadelphia I found myself walking east on Market Street in the company of friends and family toward Independence Hall. The Liberty Bell was still in residence. I remember aunts and uncles and cousins and roommates all hiking toward the July 4th, 1976 Bicentennial speech given by […]

AMERICAN EDUCATION STARTS WITH THE FIRST WORD

American education teaches and American education does some learning too, as in we learn how to teach. Isn’t that the happy ending education promises? Learn how to treat others as you would have them treat you. Why does that sound so biblical? This is where the separation does neither American public […]

MOTIVATED LIFE: FEAR, ANGER, BIG FINISH

From day one America grew an attitude of the picked on little brother. Instead of walking the plank of tradition and custom in the old country, early explorers took off for the new to live a motivated life. I hear Monty Python’s French accented, “Weee, doon’t neeeed yoooou.” That’s the enduring American story, […]

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

One solution to rising Portland rents At first tiny apartments got the shit because they went up in neighborhoods with streets jammed by normal parking. Now the micro havens are a solution, a reason for a drop in the rent crisis. And those bikes? Millennials and bikes and small apartments? It happens. Add […]

GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND IN LIFE AND ON SCREEN

The film came out in 1993 for an American legend. One of the kickers in Frontier Communications are free On Demand movies. The Sony Channel skips commercials and runs them straight through from all appearances. A recent cruise through the selections turned up Geronimo: An American Legend. Like Days of Heaven with Richard Gere, […]

OREGON VOTER REMORSE HISTORY

Regrets? Oregon voter has had a few. American elections seem to have the same choices: Bad and Worse. Pick one and you wish you’d picked the other. Like early pioneers’ choice of floating the Columbia River rapids, or traversing the Barlow Road, once you take one you wish you were on the other. The 2016 […]

WHO CRIES MOST? NON-VOTER

Non-voters need change, will do anything for change. Anything, they say. Except vote. Every excuse is a good excuse to not vote, just don’t say the dog ate your ballet. Instead, use these tried and true non-voter lines: I got my registration in late. I moved. I thought my driver’s license was enough. Or,

Another Moment Of All American Serendipitous Patriotism

All American Moment Of Serendipitous Patriotism

Continental Divide: A Place Not An Attitude

AMERICAN EDUCATION STARTS WITH THE FIRST WORD

TO KNOW A PLACE, MEET THE FIRST PEOPLE

MOTIVATED LIFE: FEAR, ANGER, BIG FINISH

PORTLAND RENTS A LIFESTYLE, WHO PAYS THE FREIGHT

GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND IN LIFE AND ON SCREEN

OREGON VOTER REMORSE HISTORY

WHO CRIES MOST? NON-VOTER

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