@orygunguy.bsky.social
@orygunguy.bsky.social
Life-long Oregonian, semi-retired daily journalist, dabbling in home-winemaking and perfecting my mediocre guitar skills. Also -- hey Tadej, watch out on the next climb...
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So much better! (Also, Elon never ran a company that didn't rely on millions in government contracts. Not likely to run into him here)...
Anyone see Lindsey around the office this morning? She's not at her desk. I'll call Alina to see if she's heard anything.
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Anyone see Lindsey around the office this morning? She's not at her desk. I'll call Alina to see if she's heard anything.
Bobby's flaks at the CDC continue to use the phraseology "gold standard science." Hate to remind them that we went off the gold standard decades ago...
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Bobby's flaks at the CDC continue to use the phraseology "gold standard science." Hate to remind them that we went off the gold standard decades ago...
So measles is now basically a growth stock?
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 AM
So measles is now basically a growth stock?
Just musing here, but what would it take for Sam "We Love Insurrectionist Flags Flying Above Our Vacation Home" Alito and Clarence "Insurrection? What Insurrection?" Thomas to vote against a Trump-backed issue before the court?
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Just musing here, but what would it take for Sam "We Love Insurrectionist Flags Flying Above Our Vacation Home" Alito and Clarence "Insurrection? What Insurrection?" Thomas to vote against a Trump-backed issue before the court?
I am not holding a rally at the Ellipse. Period. Period. Period.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I am not holding a rally at the Ellipse. Period. Period. Period.
Not a good night for Don. Is someone going to wake him up and tell him?
November 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Not a good night for Don. Is someone going to wake him up and tell him?
"The Ballroom remains the president's main priority" -- Karoline Leavitt.
Well, I'm building a ballroom in my underwear. Still not sure where the other one will go...
Well, I'm building a ballroom in my underwear. Still not sure where the other one will go...
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"The Ballroom remains the president's main priority" -- Karoline Leavitt.
Well, I'm building a ballroom in my underwear. Still not sure where the other one will go...
Well, I'm building a ballroom in my underwear. Still not sure where the other one will go...
So, Geert Wilders' right-wing party in the Netherlands loses 12 seats and relinquishes control. His first response? "The voter has spoken." We'll see from here, but can one imagine this response from "our" guy?
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
So, Geert Wilders' right-wing party in the Netherlands loses 12 seats and relinquishes control. His first response? "The voter has spoken." We'll see from here, but can one imagine this response from "our" guy?
Just take a wrecking ball to the White House. You know, the place where Dolly Madison rescued portraits as the Brits stormed in. That place. Just take a wrecking ball to it. And maybe some troops into Portland. And let's murder a Colombian fisherman. And pardon George Santos...Jesus god...
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Just take a wrecking ball to the White House. You know, the place where Dolly Madison rescued portraits as the Brits stormed in. That place. Just take a wrecking ball to it. And maybe some troops into Portland. And let's murder a Colombian fisherman. And pardon George Santos...Jesus god...
And now his hedgehogs are tearing down the White House. To make way for the first of his stated vanity projects. At a cost of millions, all forked over by a select cluster of monied fellas seeking access. But don't call it authoritarianism. Anything but that...
October 21, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And now his hedgehogs are tearing down the White House. To make way for the first of his stated vanity projects. At a cost of millions, all forked over by a select cluster of monied fellas seeking access. But don't call it authoritarianism. Anything but that...
Not trying to come off as sanctimonious, but I've never altered an American flag to incorporate a Nazi symbol into the stripes field of the flag. Just saying...
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Not trying to come off as sanctimonious, but I've never altered an American flag to incorporate a Nazi symbol into the stripes field of the flag. Just saying...
The planet is a far lesser place without Diane Keaton trodding its continents...
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The planet is a far lesser place without Diane Keaton trodding its continents...
Things were awful in Portland today. Just wretched! Why, an unruly knot of clouds gathered at midday (without a permit, it should be noted) and emitted a tiny bit of moisture. I'd asked heaven to help us and it offered only precipitation. This is how it starts...
October 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Things were awful in Portland today. Just wretched! Why, an unruly knot of clouds gathered at midday (without a permit, it should be noted) and emitted a tiny bit of moisture. I'd asked heaven to help us and it offered only precipitation. This is how it starts...
Shouldn't be that tough for any American to say "No Kings," right? Right??
October 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Shouldn't be that tough for any American to say "No Kings," right? Right??
Love to hear what Stormy Daniels has to say about the president's insurrection...
October 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Love to hear what Stormy Daniels has to say about the president's insurrection...
Kristi Noem held no news availabilities when she barged into Portland earlier this week (although she did fly three "conservative influencers" in with her). Just how chicken was she? So much that she couldn't even confront the guy in the chicken suit who is outside ICE hdqtrs every day.
October 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Kristi Noem held no news availabilities when she barged into Portland earlier this week (although she did fly three "conservative influencers" in with her). Just how chicken was she? So much that she couldn't even confront the guy in the chicken suit who is outside ICE hdqtrs every day.
Just got my new Medbed delivered. Oddly, it's just a thin mat with 1,000 or so small nails pointing upward, but from the brief video the president shared, it seems to pretty much cure anything...
October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Just got my new Medbed delivered. Oddly, it's just a thin mat with 1,000 or so small nails pointing upward, but from the brief video the president shared, it seems to pretty much cure anything...
Next time, be more brazen...
I ate a good goat cheese and grilled vegetable slider at an event this evening, and most of the tray was untouched, and had I not failed to bring a purse I would have made off like a bandit. Alas. I took one home and wished I had been more brazen.
September 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Next time, be more brazen...
Here in Portland. We are talking about one city block. One city block. Which usually has, at most, one dozen citizens out caring enough to make their presence known. God forgive us for what we've done...
September 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Here in Portland. We are talking about one city block. One city block. Which usually has, at most, one dozen citizens out caring enough to make their presence known. God forgive us for what we've done...
The rapture is taking a lot longer than I thought it would...
September 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The rapture is taking a lot longer than I thought it would...
What does one wear to a rapture?
September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
What does one wear to a rapture?
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Loving my new Bic auto-pen...
June 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Loving my new Bic auto-pen...
Given reporting from the trial, I'm quite certain I'd not want to be known as Diddy's "right-hand" anything...
June 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Given reporting from the trial, I'm quite certain I'd not want to be known as Diddy's "right-hand" anything...
Here's one thing to know about foreign students attending American universities -- they pay 100 percent of the cost of their tuition. U.S.-born students pay, in tuition, whatever percentage their particular state requires. But foreign students are solid gold for the institutions they attend.
May 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Here's one thing to know about foreign students attending American universities -- they pay 100 percent of the cost of their tuition. U.S.-born students pay, in tuition, whatever percentage their particular state requires. But foreign students are solid gold for the institutions they attend.