Games
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The Laquedem Plan for the second presidential debate: Scrabble
The debate between President Trump and Vice President Biden earlier this week told us nothing new about the candidates. The president criticized Mr. Biden for not proposing any specific plans for his term in office, and then talked over him whenever he started to give specifics. Mr. Biden was more restrained, but eventually gave up…
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Armed Nevada gang, seeking publicity, seizes obscure ranger station 30 miles outside isolated Oregon town
I think I've said it all in the headline.
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The Portland Streetcar’s real purpose revealed
One of the ongoing discussions about the Portland Streetcar is whether it is faster to walk or take the streetcar. When I want to travel along the streetcar's route downtown, I trot briskly along the route until a streetcar catches up with me, or until I catch up with the streetcar, or until I get…
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The new and improved protest movement: Preoccupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street movement has attracted some public attention but hasn't really done anything to achieve its goals. (Actually, it's not clear to me what its goals are, or even if it has any particular goals.) Its activities seem designed to get the attention of local government but not to have much effect on the people…
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The Laquedem Congressional Spending Reduction Symbolic Support Plan
I"ll have a more serious thought on the national debt ceiling in a while, but it struck me yesterday that as our nation's elected senators and representatives like to spend beyond their means (Republicans as well as Democrats, but with different priorities) even as they decry our deficit, they could join in the commitment to…
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Supporting our troops, and free trade also
The younger Laquedem cousins and I enjoyed last night's baseball game with gusto, not to mention the fireworks afterward. We did notice one oddity unrelated to the game itself. Organizations that support the armed forces and returned veterans were out in force for the Patriotic Weekend events. One of them gave each of the…
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Margie Boule yields her crown
Tonight at the Fifth Annual Celebrity Spelling Bee of Schoolhouse Supplies, Margie Boule (a two-time winner) of the Oregonian finished a close second, yielding her title as spelling champ to Nicole Vogel, publisher of Portland Monthly. "Isosceles" was her downfall, and "diaphanous" (not a word usually associated with January clothing for Portlanders) gave Ms. Vogel…
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Gorging on casinos
The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, operators of the casino at Kah-Nee-Tah, wants to build a casino in the Columbia River Gorge, either near Hood River or at Cascade Locks, 20 miles closer to Portland. Warm Springs needs the governor’s approval to build at Cascade Locks, but not at Hood River, because the site near…