This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
News Good Morning, News!
Posted by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:57 AM
From the NYT: "Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency." One less person on welfare! Woo-hoo!
Hillary Clinton arrives in Pakistan; a car bomb kills 90 people (mostly women) and wounds 160. Think the two are related?
NASA launches the world's largest rocket today, and… HOLD ON YOU GUYS! THERE'S NO ONE ON BOARD!!
This story is so fucking depressing and infuriating, I can't even talk about it.
Now the sheriff in the Balloon Boy case is in trouble, too!
Jon Gosselin (formerly of Jon & Kate Plus 8) has allegedly agreed to date the woman known as Octomom for a reality show. Cue the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Tennis great Andre Agassi admits in his new memoir that he used crystal meth. So why did he never play in Estacada?
The Blazers win their first outing of the season against the Rockets—but UGH! It wasn't pretty.
And finally, Jon Stewart investigates former President Bush's motivational speaking series. LET'S GET MOTIVATED, YA'LL!
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
| George W. Bush Hits the Lecture Circuit | ||||
| ||||
Most Commented on Blogtown, PDX
-
Fluoride 2013: Let's Just Start Drinking a Poison We All Agree On (Hint: It's Alcohol) by Denis C. Theriault
-
Slate: What's the Matter with Portland? by Dirk VanderHart
-
Birth of a Killer Tornado by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
-
Game of Thrones Recap: Wedding Bells Edition by Joe Streckert
-
My Least Favorite Piece of Misogyny This Week: Girl Friendship Edition by Barbara Holm
-
Tonight at Powell's: John Scalzi by Erik Henriksen
-
Are Voter Owned Elections Mounting a Comeback? by Dirk VanderHart
-
Damon Lindelof Can't Win by Erik Henriksen
-
Irish Teenager Writes Incredibly Irish Short Story by Alison Hallett
-
Audreality Does Open Season: "Fashion Passion" by Marjorie Skinner
Our Friends
- UrbanHonking
- Culture Shock
- Portland Roundball Society
- Steph Cassano
- Cort and Fatboy
- Street Roots
- Powell's Books Blog
- Portland Transport
- Portland Afoot
- Bike Portland
- Eater: PDX
- Portland Food and Drink
- Mr. Movie
- Sunday Softball
- BlueOregon
- Sightline Institute
- Ultra: Arts Portland
- Bitch Magazine
- Blazer's Edge
- Reading Local: Portland
- Portland Food Carts
- Stumptown Vegans
Our Enemies
RSSGoing to Seattle?
