NW Portland man makes plea deal in threats to neighbors, gets out of jail. Reports of the death of irony were premature: “Ignatov shouted expletives, referred to her family as Arabs and Muslims, and told her to “Go home!”…. Ignatov is an immigrant from the former Soviet Union.”
Taliban reportedly executed boy as spy. When you can kidnap and execute a seven-year-old boy, you can rest assured that you’ve ceded any and all claims to the moral high ground.
Another Gulf oil spill: Well near Deepwater Horizon has leaked since at least April 30. Just when you might have been thinking that things couldn’t POSSIBLY become any worse….
What if carbon dioxide were as black as oil?. No, you can’t see it, touch it, or taste it, but the threat is even more real than any oil spill. Yet we continue fiddling as Rome burns….
Group: NY landmark ‘stiffs’ Mother Teresa. Perhaps I’m a minority here, but I firmly believe that anything that set Bill Donohue’s blood to boiling is A. VERY. GOOD. THING. With any luck, perhaps the intolerant zealot will explode from one of his apoplectic fits of rage.
American Apparel Has a ‘Full Body Head to Toe’ Employment Policy. And this is why I don’t work for American Apparel. They’d never let me out of the mail room.
Ugandan Bishop: Some U.S. Christian Groups Are ‘Preaching A Gospel Of Hatred’ Toward Gays Worldwide. Hatred may seem like a hard thing to sell here in the US when you consider how eager African nations like Uganda are to hate and even kill homosexuals. It’s what Jesus would do.
The Kids Getting Drunk at CBP Epidemic is Spreading. So, Phillies fans are bad parents? They’d have to be considered as much; no competent parent would allow their child to get drunk off light beer. They’d start them off with Malibu & Diet Coke.
Why Do We Call It Soccer?. Most of the rest of the world knows it as “football”? So how did we end up with such a silly name for the world’s favorite game?
Mayor who called gay troops ‘lacy-drawered’ and ‘limp-wristed’ compares himself to Washington and Lincoln. Better to be thought a bigot and a fool than to be Al Krieger and remove any lingering doubt.
