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• Ted Wheeler calls for reforming corporate disclosure of political donations:
  Given the fact that employees in union shops may not opt out of dues, and usually must join the union to keep the job, your description might be a bit incomplete as it relates to politics. Not arguing that this is itself a bad thing, just that it adds datapoints ...
• WaCo: Andy Duyck's Enemies List:
  I didn't get it from this article, but I did get it from your plain words elsewhere and recently. No gleaning was required.
• Willamette Weak: From the Mixed-Up Files of Mr. Nigel J. Jaquiss:
  The elephant in the room, though is the idea that government should be "run like a business" or emulate "my family budget". Both are simplistic in the extreme and largely inaccurate. Beyond personnel management, there are few similarities, and we've all bought into "common sense" which happens in this ...
• Legislature Fares Poorly on Racial Equity Report Card:
  It occurs that in the realm of the activist, a report would have to be negative, otherwise what's their Raison d'être, as Nathan Arizona put it to the FBI agent....
• Ron Wyden's "Dear Internet" Letter:
  Wow. Come on my fellow geeks. To the barricades. Senator Wdyen (and Senator Merkley have held the line at some potential personal expense against this power grab. This is about freedom and pushing against the impulse to monetize every danged thing. Finally, the extremely cautious president "Got it", thanks in ...
• WaCo: Andy Duyck's Enemies List:
  Maybe if you could demonstrate some of that personal corruption which you allege. The guy may well be a weasel, I have no idea, except for the behavior that you describe. On that point I have no reason to doubt you. Still it's a long way from autocratic behavior ...
• Requiem for a War: Portland's peace community responds with silence and contempt to US troop pullout from Iraq.:
  Guess we won't really know whether your long distance psychological diagnosis of direct action activists is accurate until we are no longer involved in hostilities anywhere in the world, Bill. I am not holding my breath until that happens. I have never personally participated in these antiwar protests, believing ...
• That "lesbian" kiss:
  I'm waiting for the day when no one bothers to take a picture. Around 10% of people are left-handed, but they let us get married, kiss our significant others, and so forth. In fact no one really notices our left-handedness at all.
• Anatomy of a disconnect: The Lariviere firing:
  Referencing Occam's Razor, this looks like a high level bureaucrat who has become so personally convinced of his indispensability that he feels he need no longer work within the chain of command because his superiors couldn't possibly be his superiors. Happens all the time. Sometimes they do indeed ...
• Banking is Now a Political and Social Issue :
  I've been watching the whole OWS Portland thing from up on the porch here, and it strikes me that NYC, Oakland, and a few others suffered from the fact that authoritarians within the city power structures, when given free rein, tend to overreact. Cops are taught that when they ...

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