Burgeoning network engineer (look out, I'm burgeoning!)(new grad). Nous sommes Palestinian. Going to war with Iran is moronic and immoral. #RipCity
I wrote an open letter to Blazers President of Business Operations Dewayne Hankins following his testimony to Portland City Council yesterday. I will include a few excerpts in the replies, but please check out the full piece: www.blazersedge.com/trail-blazer...
Dear Dewayne Hankins:An open letter to a longtime Blazers leader.www.blazersedge.com
John Fetterman always has this facial expression like he’s dissatisfied with the flavor of a live bird he just ate
the upcoming elections are simply too important to be doing risky things like nominating muslims, opposing wars, standing up for immigrants and trans kids, or taking a strong stand against paramilitary squads summarily executing our neighbors outside their homes. i wish this weren't true but it is
enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man
the current state of the moda center renovation conversations between the portland trail blazers and the city of portland, summarized in 90 seconds:
Is this a good time to mention that in college my History of Translation lecturer (Michael Cronin) told us that one of the first vernacular translations of The Illiad was into Irish, and the translator had to give the main characters dogs because in Gaelic society a free man had a dog
My son who is on the spectrum watched Top Gun five years ago and what he took from the experience is that it's a movie where men don't wear shirts and so to this day he refers to taking his shirt off as "going Top Gun."
The actual harsh truth about MAHA is that it is an anti-vaxx, anti-science, pro-diarrhea conspiracy movement. It cloaks its arguments in abstractions about "big pharma" and "free speech" to generate *the exact op-ed The Atlantic keeps publishing*. Movements like this need to be fought, not placated.