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Posts tagged as “off topic”
8/9/2013: In the NYT. The Opry never let her sing the 1972 song she really earned it for – here’s a version from 1995:
7/19/2013: Clearly state your assumptions and provide appropriate figures and explanations: 1) From the NYT today: Should the bankrupt city of Detroit sell its $2 billion art collection to help pay its $18 billion in debt? 2) From the NYT yesterday: A Romanian mother burned ~$250 million worth of stolen impressionist…
7/12/2013: Brent Hunsberger on Kitzhaber’s version of de Gaulle’s dirigisme. Here’s hoping it turns out better than Kulongoski’s.
6/12/2013: Need a very used couch? Eugene’s HS students have a great idea, straight out of the pages of my favorite archaeology book. And while I’m off topic, check out Around the O for the most dissonant headline I’ve ever read: Computer professor scores trifecta with committee posts But actually, these seem to…
5/29/2013: From the Statesman-Journal.
5/24/2013: Finally some common sense from the group that taught me: On my honor I will do my bestTo do my duty to God and my countryand to obey the Scout Law;To help other people at all times;To keep myself physically strong,mentally awake, and morally straight. I had to lie…
Tuesday’s fire in the Hamilton Complex’s Dunn Hall was an accident caused by mop heads catching on fire, investigators have confirmed. 5/15/2013.
From Josephine Woolington in the RG, here. 5/7/2013.
I did not know that. The RG reports. 4/26/2013.
4/23/2013 update: Harry Esteve of the Oregonian reports that the legislature’s PERS cut / tax increase deal is likely to pass, in part because speaker Tina Kotek bought off a few eastern legislators with easier wolf kill rules. And then he links to this disturbing report on wolf attacks on…
4/18/2013: The New Zealand Parliament votes for marriage equality, then sings a Maori love song:
I think Kim Jong-Un has it right on the subtleties of the civil rights issues. But the Volokh Conspiracy has some interesting reporting on who gets in to hear the arguments. 3/30/2013.
From the Oregonian, 3/26/2013: “I’m not going to add any fuel to their fire,” she said. “My comments are not printable.” In other news, the Democrats have released their PERS reform plan: — Retirees would receive the current 2 percent increase on the first $20,000 of retirement income. The COLA…
Prozanski’s on it, Senate Bill 602. Oh wait, it’s about airplanes, never mind. 3/19/2013.