It Makes Me Crazy! I Love Politics.

I've been blog AWOL for over a week and it's mostly Brad Herran's fault for coming to visit. Sure I asked him, and he came, so I guess it's really my fault. When two friends are at fault together, it becomes a good. Brad and I were roommates in college and best friends. The first year, 1972-73, we were in adjoining rooms in Bury Hall . I shared a room with Jim "The Missing" Link and Brad sharing with Greg "The Horniest Preacher on Earth" Givili. I was a junior and he was a freshman, and I did exactly what I was supposed to do: I corrupted him from his mid-west sensibilities into a full blown reprobate. The next year we shared "The Dungeon." The Dungeon was the last room on a dead-end hall with no escape except by the central stairwell. We adorned the room appropriately. Bunk beds broken down to make two singles. Window glass painted with blue tempera paint, casting a black-light like glow across the room, and making it hard for C

This is a story that reminds us of what the human race is capable of. It Appeared in today's Oregonian by Samantha Swindler, copyright 2017 Grant Harter has always been ahead of the curve. At age 11, his home school curriculum included geometry, astronomy, anatomy, chemistry and — for good measure — ballroom dancing. At 12, he earned his first college credits through Advanced Placement testing. At 13, he enrolled in Clark Community College. At 14, he entered Portland State University as a junior. And this Sunday, he’ll graduate with a major in physics, a minor in math and University Honors. At 15, he is the youngest bachelor’s recipient ever at Portland State. Yet until recently, most of his classmates and professors had no idea the shy, 6-foot-2- inch student was so young. “I think a lot of people just haven’t really been able to tell,” Harter said. When classmates or professors find out his age, “There’s generally some surprise there. Some people are like, ‘Oh wow

I stumbled upon this and thought it shows we are not alone in political silliness.  The United Kingdom has struggled with the European Union and Theresa May just got slapped silly. The fact that it stars Patrick Stewart is a major plus. Lead us on Captain Picard....

A little over two weeks ago, I came down with hives. I've never had them before, and as a kid I had found that I was immune to poison ivy and poison oak. All the other kids broke out with blisters, but I never did. Invincibility! Well not any more. I woke up one day and welts were forming, then disappearing, then appearing in other places. Itchy. So it was time to make a trip over to the Dermatology Clinic and see Dr. Srinavasan. "You have hives", he said. Are you allergic to... and the list went on. The answer was "No, never had any allergies except to amoxicillin, but now I felt like I looked more like a poster child/senior for an anti-leprosy campaign. The explanation was that you just have to wait it out. High doses of Allegra every day to calm things down and reduce the itching and blister weeping, and come back in a month. Well Allegra certainly helped, but it was being helpless that really stings. Things started to get slowly better, but last Thurs

Former FBI Director James Comey Well it looks like as early as next week James Comey will begin to testify before Congress and the American people. I feel like I'm back in college, sitting with my roommate Brad, watching Senator Sam Ervin run the Watergate Hearings. They were broadcast live, gavel to gavel on both TV and Radio, by PBS. Sam Ervin was a racist. He was not alone in that philosophy. Back then people were more open about it because large swaths of the country were openly racist. Sam Ervin was also a hero. Born in 1896 in North Carolina, he served and was decorated in World War I. But that isn't what made him a true hero. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1922 and also served as county attorney for Burke County, when a black man was wanted for the killing of a white girl and was declared a "outlaw" under state law, which meant any citizen had the right to kill him on sight. The man, Broadus Miller was shot and k