Really, now...there's no need to be dissin' weasels. But in any event, as they've filed suit, they're probably angry enough to pursue it.

I suppose it all boils down to what's considered "excessive" - they pay $11.6 million to Commissioner Roger Goodell (and in 2011 gave him a $22.3 million bonus).

The one they sent here was addressed to "Portland Resident". Nobody by that name lives here, either.

Yes, it's the original bridge, and what made it functionally obsolete was the 14.5 foot clearance - standard clearance is 16 feet. On a scale of 1 to 100, it was rated a 47 during the last inspection two years ago.

Could've been worse; looked for a bit last night as though it was. Could've been better, though.

He may be growing into something, though I'm not sure it's the job. I think that all of these annoyances are cutting into his party schedule, and Mooch has been on his case about it. He's giving Eric a month and a half to come up with somebody suitable for blaming. Then we can all MoveOn!

He's never had to take blame (er, credit) for anything yet....

They don't have to; they can hire readers to do it for them.

Proof that it's possible to be at once somewhat intelligent and stark raving loony.

Making two things at which they excel: spying on people and data revision!

There's good news and bad news: good, nobody died. Bad: that river's fast and deep, and fluctuates in level at the drop of a hat. This makes getting the bridge section and cars out of there very problematic. Initially, water erosion was suspected, but an eyewitness noted that a "wide-load" truck clipped the superstructure of the bridge immediately prior to the collapse. I suspect that this will drive the final nail into the CRC - Columbia River bridge with light rail.

MAID sounds good. Like, MAID in Oregon?

I've no doubt that somebody will. There are more than a couple legal issues opened up in these cases.

We'll be signing that petition. For the vote last Tuesday, Clean Water collected 40,000 signatures in 30 days. A lot of us are just getting tired of being messed with by NY/CA newcomers.

Those folks never cease to amaze. Wouldn't surprise me if they went down to "protest" at the kids' funerals. Although after they announced plans to do that over at Sandy Hook, their website and Facebook accounts were somehow, mysteriously, taken over and altered. That was amusing.

Who gets "involved" with Black Panthers in the first place?

I'd buy the popcorn.

Pretty amusing, but the list gets bigger all the time. Trains shouldn't be plunked down in roadways, which is why you never see a freight train heading down the highway.

Too early to tell, but it wouldn't be surprising, as they're a protected subspecies. I like the "we'll punish the alleged harasser whether guilty or not" part. That's special.

Actually, if I recall correctly, the only time it was even close was during the vote of '78, when the fluoridistas squeaked out a win. It was repealed two years later by roughly the same ratio as yesterday's vote - before they had time to build the plant and implement the addition. This is one of those rare topics that seems to bring folks together, here; even the folks next door to us, who support every leftist concept that comes up for a vote, had a yard sign in opposition. What's really amusing is the supporters in the online comments, yammering on about racists and teabaggers and ignorant but vocal minorities. Those are the kinds of folks that, if you see them on the street, your safest move is to cross to the other side. Me, as soon as I saw the fundraising stats, and the underhanded ploys - that's all it took. When I was growing up, I spent part of my life in a town with fluoride water, and part on a farm with well water (and I mean well water; you hand-pumped it into buckets and trucked it into the house). I'm still here. I can't say fluoride's bad, nor that it's in any way beneficial when ingested. It's effective when applied topically. But our 22-year-old daughter, born and raised here, has never had fluoridated water. And she's never had a cavity. So I'm not buying the high-dollar hysteria, and I'm plum sick and tired of the It's For The Children™! line.

A brief moment of sanity happened. Apparently there was a disturbance in the Force.

Wait 'till they pass a "carbon tax".

It's probably just one of those things that takes a little getting used to. Like, say, Windows8.

It's a start, anyway.

Yep, both countries have dropped their subsidy programs for wind and solar. But Germany knows how to build subs.