Update, 3:26pm: Download a .mov file of the exchange here.

Original post: KPOJ host Carl Wolfson hung up on me this morning as we were discussing my Hall Monitor column this week. And that's okay, Carl, because I forgive you, too.

Wolfson disagrees with the tenor of my column, which is that I've forgiven Sam Adams, and feel a lot better for it. I didn't realize I was going to touch such a raw nerve, and Wolfson—a progressive talk show host—sounded pretty angry. I said that's okay, but that I wasn't angry any more, and tried to move us on to talk about Adams' new initiative attempting to improve the high school dropout rate in Portland. Wolfson didn't want to do that, though. "I'm sure that's great for those students," he said. But...but...

Apparently Wolfson apologized on the air for hanging up on me, afterward. But all I heard was the sound of my cellphone cutting off as I was trying to talk about Senator Avel Gordly's support of the recall. The whole controversy re-makes my point: Let's stop focusing on the arguments around Sam Adams, which seem so divisive, and let's move forward to work on some of the very real problems being faced by Portland.

To do that, we have to take responsibility for our anger, we have to own it, and we have to forgive.

I'm looking forward to next week's show, 8am Thursday as usual, 620 AM.