Media
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Portland in 1921: Professor Einstein yields to the Bolsheviks
Not all news stories wear well. On December 13, 1921 the Oregonian printed this intriguing item: ROTARIANS DITCH EINSTEIN. — Because the Einstein theory of relativity has been knocked higher than a kite, according to the story published in The Oregonian yesterday morning, the Rotary club has seen fit to strike the subject from its…
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stamped out
Twitter shut down the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, stating or implying that its system of artificial intelligence had detected a "fifth strike" in her tweets that in the AI's (and hence Twitter's) view are misleading enough about Covid to cause harm. MSN's article on her partial expulsion from the Twitterverse (she can…
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Fox News outclasses the BBC for journalistic ethics? Today, yes
The conviction this week of Ghislaine Maxwell for her complicity in the sexual misconduct of her longtime friend and employer, the late Jeffrey Epstein, spawned a plethora of articles and interviews with legal analysts. For example, yesterday the BBC interviewed law professor Alan Dershowitz to talk about the verdict. The Washington Post reports that Professor…
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The Oregonian finds what the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability didn’t want to look for
It's hard to improve on the Oregonian's headline in today's print edition: "$11.5M city contract awarded to executive with history of fraud." (The story is available online to subscribers, here.) The reporter, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, writes that the directors of the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund, a city office of some sort, awarded a…
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Happy anniversary to me
On this day in 1876, the United States issued a patent to Alexander Graham Bell for his invention of the telephone. My more modest contribution to March 7 is that on this day in 2004 I published my first blog post, a comment about the plan to put parking beneath the historic Pioneer Court House. …
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The most expensive free advertising the Oregon State Bar ever printed
The Oregon State Bar prints a magazine called the Oregon State Bar Bulletin, intended mainly for its members. The Bulletin includes articles on legal writing, profiles of individual lawyers, articles about recent legal developments, announcements of upcoming educational classes and events, and some advertising. The advertising is mostly by law firms announcing new associates and…
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Presidential fashion
In the extremely unlikely event that I should be called to serve as our nation's Chief Executive, and then grant an interview to the New York Times, I will have no qualms about wearing a Rolex watch and a tan suit.
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Sweet Sixteen
Sixteen years ago yesterday I wrote my first blog post, opining on the then-hot controversy about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wanting to cut a hole in the foundation of the Pioneer Courthouse for access to secure parking. Since then the driveway onto the transit mall has become part of the background. I surmise…
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Alternate headline: Secretary of State doesn’t know where Ukraine is, asks NPR reporter to help
I think it's a plausible explanation of this odd story, unless Secretary Pompeo is better at geopolitics than Secretary DeVos is at education. In the unlikely event that Mr. Pompeo reads this blog, here's a clue:
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CNN accidentally makes a point about child-rearing
I can't be the only one who noticed the coincidence in CNN's story about the mother of Osama bin Laden being followed by, well, the story that it was followed by.