How Soon We Forget
by Anonymous Let's all look back on the Bush years, and anticipate looking forward to far worse with Donald Trump. The top 15 highlights: 1. 9/112. Iraq/Afghanistan wars ("Mission Accomplished")3....
View ArticleOregonians: Cats are fine; PEOPLE need you
by Anonymous Galvanized by demoralizing election results and disappointment for thinking my Oregon vote was enough, I am giving to organizations that are making a positive difference in this world:...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Podcasting 101 After becoming an avid listener to fantastic shows like This Is the Read, The Friend Zone, and Jen Kirkman’s I Seem Fun, I myself have even thought about entering the...
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Portland Police Needed a TriMet Bus For All the Demonstrators They Arrested...
by Dirk VanderHart Portland Police BureauWhen Mayor Charlie Hales and Police Chief Mike Marshman implored anti-Trump demonstrators to stay home Saturday night, they warned that cops would be more...
View ArticleA Stretch Too Far
by Anonymous Dear loudmouthed Boomer asshole in my Sunday night yoga class, I've been quietly enduring months of your clueless bullshit: talking loudly (always about yourself) before, during and after...
View ArticleDo You Swallow?
by Anonymous I came of age at the beginning of this century and managed to make a comfortable living. I didn't have "F-you" money, but I was pretty comfortable. I lost most of what I had during The...
View ArticleTo the Smug RRshole at Brewers Fest Last Summer
by Anonymous I was the (perfectly sober) foreign guy you ridiculed when I opined that Trump could win unless people got serious about the enormous threat he represented, and stopped being oblivious....
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Things to Do This Week!
Things to do for Nov 14-17 by Mercury Staff New week, new opportunities to get that mind enriched a little bit. A Tribe Called Red kicks your consciousness into gear, Jenny Hval descends from icy...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: More Portland Protests, Trump Appoints Breitbart, and...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Friends ask how could I give myself to one who belongs to someone else. They just don't know your love's so good that they would want it for themselves....
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Blazer’s Recap: Blazers Smoke Nuggets 112-105
by Arthur Bradford I'll admit I've been waiting some time for a chance to use that "Blazers Smoke Nuggets" headline, and now that time has finally come. Our hometown Blazers did indeed smoke some...
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Of Course James Franco Is in King Cobra
by Eric D. Snider Despite being a true story of jealousy and murder in the world of gay porn, King Cobra is neither thoughtful enough to find meaning in it, nor seedy enough to turn it into trashy...
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Lit Crawl: Now More Than Ever
by Joshua James Amberson Were we ever so young.LitCrawl PDXThe weekend before the election, the Wordstock festival kicked off with Lit Crawl (a festival in its own right) on Friday, November 4. I...
View ArticleJohn Oliver: President-Elect Donald Trump Is a "Klan-Backed Misogynist...
by Jessica Fu Don't get comfortable.That was comedian John Oliver's message to viewers last night, when he addressed Donald Trump's shocking presidential win on November 8.On Last Week Tonight with...
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The Walking Dead Recap: With Absolutely NO Negan/Trump Comparisons
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey I can only imagine that the Walking Dead writers are giggling themselves to sleep over Trump's victory—if only because of the comparisons that will be drawn between the show's...
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Portland High School Kids are Skipping School to Protest Trump
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Doug BrownThink kids of today don't give a crap? Check out the march and demonstration going down today at the noontime hour from high school students from across the entire...
View ArticleResist Trump By Supporting These Crucial Organizations
by Mercury Staff {{image:1}} With an impending Trump presidency, we are looking at four years of an administration that seems likely to threaten the health, safety, and security of women, the LGBTQ...
View ArticleTrump Discusses Overturning Roe v. Wade, Deporting Undocumented Immigrants,...
by Christopher Frizzelle Lesley Stahl begins by calling the 2016 presidential campaign "interminable"—to which I say: if only it lasted for ever, I had hope during the campaign!—and then she says that...
View ArticleProve Us Wrong
by Anonymous Ok Mr. Trump, prove us incorrect. Prove to us that you understand that you have to president not only to your rich pals on Wall Street but to us too, the 51 million people who voted...
View ArticleAmateur Town
by Anonymous WTF, Portland?? Do you complain to Forever 21 for its omission of a bakery, or of New Seasons' selection of power tools, or about Home Depot's paucity of skinny jeans? No, because you...
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Good Morning, News: Students Hit the Streets, Protester Charges Delayed, and...
by Dirk VanderHart Welcome back to the ongoing nightmare, Portland!Doug BrownMany of the city's high school and middle school students are as upset as everyone else about the election of Donald Trump....
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