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Around half past one this morning I came upon a crime scene at the south end of downtown, just outside of Portland State University. “Is that what I think it is?” I asked a guy standing away from the tape talking to a little Mexican cop. “Yeah.” He smiled sardonically. “Don’t you love Portland?” TheContinue reading “PDX Dispatch April 4: Woman Down”

The slap in context. The civil rights movement has been dubbed “the second Reconstruction”, atoning for the first, the failure of which convention attributes entirely to southern white racism.  And while the civil rights movement is deemed by that same convention as an unqualified success (that is nonetheless never-ending and always incomplete), the insane histrionicsContinue reading “Reconstruction 2022: The Slap and the Pap”

Vanity Fair writer T.A. Frank in Unherd: This February, Bruce Harrell, newly installed as mayor of Seattle, made it official that his city has gone into decline. “The truth is the status quo is unacceptable,” he said in his first state of the city address. “It seems like every day I hear stories of longtimeContinue reading “PDX Dispatch March 28: Turd World Problems”

A 22 year-old man was arraigned for the death of his infant child last summer after the child suffered for two months before succumbing to his injuries. We’ve seen this man before. PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland man convicted of assaulting a federal officer is now facing charges in connection with his infant child’s death. CourtContinue reading “PDX Dispatch 3/24: It’s a Sick World After All”

Whistling past Hunter Biden’s laptop and taking a break from the Ukraine refrain the Washington Post today returned to its favorite subject, which is its least favorite people, white dissidents: OLYMPIA, Wash. — Melanie Gabriel became the teen idol of Washington state’s anti-masking movement last fall when she showed up to school and, claiming aContinue reading “Going Global”

From Pendennis, completed in 1850, by William Makepeace Thackeray: “There sits the Chinese Ambassador with the Mandarins of his suite, Fou-choo-foo brought me over letters of introduction from the Governor-General of India, my most intimate friend, and I was for some time very kind to him, and he had his chopsticks laid for him atContinue reading “Blast from the Past”

The same March sunlight obliterates the tattered grey clouds with the same brilliance as every year, oblivious to the city’s transformation. With blithe equanimity it alights upon the contorted maw of the schizophrenic no less than upon the fair face of the young woman going wide around him, and the same pure light graces theContinue reading “PDX Diary March 16: The Sun and Chris Abide”

Dennis’ desultory YouTube channel is suspended until April for like, you know, disinformationing on the Covid yo, and Dennis gets a strike. Regarding YouTube’s “strikes”: doesn’t it feel like the pitches aren’t in the strike zone at all? The pitch is over everyone’s head, into the bleachers, and an umpire with clown-hair spins in theContinue reading “Nothing to Crow About”

Breaking Bad was a well-regarded television series about a middle-aged high school science teacher who becomes a drug lord after a terminal cancer diagnosis and a chance encounter with a former student, who he finds is now a petty dealer. The two, pointedly named White and Pinkman, boomer and millennial, share in common only whitenessContinue reading “Boomer Breaking Badly”

“Make yourselves ungovernable” is a favored slogan of rioting Portland anarchists. Through their activist organizational arms they walk this walk, making it as hard as they can for the city to maintain public spaces and basic services. Their advocacy on behalf of the homeless has for them the incidental if not deliberate feature of makingContinue reading “Portland Dispatch Feb 4: Peak Portland Achieved”