A friend has informed me that the RSS feed from this site is now featured on AllTop’s Portland page. I am in very good company there. Now, as large as my ego may be, I can’t for the life of me figure out why I have been accorded this honor. I can only assume that [...]

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The Posse Comitatus Act is perhaps best known to far-right militia groups and white supremacists. At least, they are the ones that often scream that the U.S. is violating the Act. But it is an important law and important concept, one that bears consideration.
The Posse Comitatus Act was passed by Congress after the Civil War, [...]

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I stopped by New Season’s last night and brought home many tasty foodie treats. For dinner we had lovely fresh spinach and feta chicken sausages, basil chicken sausages, and for me a cranberry chicken sausage and a marsala fig chicken sausage.
We also had some absolutely decadent Pierre Robert triple-creme cheese and marinated mozzarella balls on [...]

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Strange Trip continued….
Washington State is divided by the Cascade Mountain range. On the west side of the mountains, there are thick temperate rain forests, ferns, lichen, and moss aplenty. And rain. Lots of rain. Not necessarily a lot of inches of rain, but a fine drizzle or mist that stretches out for weeks or months. [...]

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Back in 1986, as my senior year in college was progressing, it slowly began to occur to me that I was going to need to figure out just exactly what I was going to do after graduation.
Fortunately, our placement office was incredibly helpful in helping students polish their resumes and arrange interviews. Except I [...]

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I’ve spent the evening exploring the parental control options provided by Mac OS Tiger. As you might guess, there is a specific reason I’m doing such a tedious thing. The Wife went to look up a website she’d found yesterday, and found a whole lotta porn sites in the History.
Of course, this kind of [...]

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