I understand that it is important to listen to what all candidates have to say, but this is getting fucking absurd and embarrassing.

I have no problem with someone making light of Portland politics... I do it all the time.

That being said, the holocaust reference is totally inappropriate and offensive. I am not down with making jokes about concentration camps with ovens.

What is a joke candidate to be called when they're too dumb to craft a decent joke?

I agree with him about the graffiti. I'm sick of seeing uninspired schlock like "Someday" written in crappy curli-cue letters all over the place. Put some thought and effort into it!

Yes, please no holocaust jokes. And yes, the graffiti does suck. I am sick of seeing the "if this was art..." ironic spray paint in the ne.

Oh you people, if you can't joke about the holocaust what can you joke about?!

Seriously, you people are so square. What's wrong with a good genocide joke? I like to follow that up with something that makes light of domestic violence and/or rape, and then maybe make fun of retarded people. All in a days work of being the most annoying frat boy ever, WOOOOO

My only problem, as I whined yesterday was that the best jokes are internally consistent. Unfortunately for this particular joke campaign, the positions are internally inconsistent and so fail as a decent joke.

Oh come on people! You have to admit, it would be great to cull the jobless, I mean, hipster population. I'm not stating that the oven would be the best option. Maybe we could make them all pretend that they are going to shoot up for free and instead will be given a lethal injection. Then they can say they died for the cause in the afterlife. Oh, wait, they're Nihilists, so there is no afterlife.....

Well the *joke* is inconsistent, Bix (and that annoys me as well), but his spirit is not.

Kyle's honestly repping an angry but wry and self-depreciating working-class circa-1988 view of Portland. That's why so many people react so positively to him on the street. Kyle's all about the good ol Drugstore-Cowboy days of Drexler and Clark, "back before all those goddamned foreigners moved in and ruined a good thing."

He's tapping into an existing if embarrassed xenopobia, but he's using it to subtly re-draw the lines and drape issues of poor-people's rights in patriotic cascadian flags.

I could care less about the hipster death camps issue... I'm more concerned about electing a candidate that doesn't know anything about climate change! Any dimwit knows that any kind of combustion produces CO2, no matter what kind of fuel is being burned, renewable or not.

Kyle, using net-loss EROEI biofuels will not reduce our carbon footprint, and biofuels in general are a losing game until cellulosic ethanol production comes around.

I could care less about the hipster death camps issue... I'm more concerned about electing a candidate that doesn't know anything about climate change! Any dimwit knows that any kind of combustion produces CO2, no matter what kind of fuel is being burned, renewable or not.

Kyle, using net-loss EROEI biofuels will not reduce our carbon footprint, and biofuels in general are a losing game until cellulosic ethanol production comes around.

'Self-depreciating'. Ha! If that one was intentional, you're a genius, Rechelon.

Come on, people, the death camp isn't even the punchline. There are like three other jokes in there that are so much better then "Holocaust, LOL".

And b!x, your implication that the platform is inconsistent is based on the faulty assumption that it was put together by a rational man who thinks hipsters and yuppies are human.

And you, Elliot. Who said anything about bio-fuels? I'm planning on putting together the world's first electric hipster cooker.

Oh like you don't pronounce it that way, richbachelor.

rechelon @ 10:

You say that like its a bad thing. Many of us aren't like this because we're trying to be nostalgic, its just who we are.
I'll be buried in flannel.

Nice Ideas.

Personally, I'm glad someone is finally taking the velociraptor threat seriously. I still have nightmares about those things, even though I saw Jurassic Park in, like, 1993. Thanks, Kyle.

Re: Protect Portland from Velociraptors -

Does this mean Kyle is going to attempt to Grand Champion the Jurassic Park pinball machine at Interstate Lanes? Because that is probably the most effect way to address the Raptor problem. If he succeeds, he has my vote.