by Jan Bear | Dec 6, 2004 | Uncategorized
A 1970s-vintage Honda Civic (they looked a little like Gremlins, only smaller) preceded me off the I-205 exit yesterday. As we slowed to the left turn, I noticed something odd about the car (yes, beyond its being 25 years old with an aluminum engine block). It had hay...
by Jan Bear | Dec 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
The Loud Family gets on at a bus stop in West Linn where we usually pick up zero to one person: 11 people with the gross mass of about 18 and with a combined IQ of about 900. They carry on their conversations, about Mom’s shoes, Sis’s socks, marriage...
by Jan Bear | Dec 2, 2004 | Uncategorized
Dr. Sanity explains Bush Derangement Syndrome: This psychological defense mechanism is referred to as ‘displacement’. One way you can usually tell that an individual is using displacement is that the emotion being displaced (e.g., anger) is all out of...
by Jan Bear | Dec 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
Portland’s alternative weekly ran a feature story on Evangelicals this week. Its slant was “They’re here, they’re having an effect, and we’d better get to know them.” The writer, Zach Dundas, came across like an anthropologist...
by Jan Bear | Dec 1, 2004 | Uncategorized
What do you get when you drag $165 million through a trailer park? A new presidential library that looks like an enormous single-wide mobile home on stilts.