Tangled up in Who

We’re long conditioned to social and political questions being decided by identity, not action. It isn’t who did what but who’s who. That conditioning is considerable. Witness the divide between true-believing media elites and the public over the “appropriateness” of President Trump’s remarks on Charlottesville. Media types seemed genuinely oblivious to the clear narrative emergingContinue reading “Tangled up in Who”

Before and Crasser

The United Workmen Temple in Portland was built in the 1890s for the Ancient Order of Workmen, and eventually became the Tourney Building. Falling into disrepair it was declared unsafe and taken off the historical register in 2015. The city cited the cost of earthquake retrofitting and now it’s under demolition. Yesterday Today The style isContinue reading “Before and Crasser”