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by Charles Mudede CNN: "President's Trump's cabinet members introduce themselves and offer praise during the first full cabinet meeting."At Trump's first full cabinet meeting, which happened...
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by Dan Savage With everything that's going down right now and with so many of the world's environmental problems directly traceable to human overpopulation—weareliterallykillingeverything—you'd think...
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by Anonymous Life is nothing but ants, spiders, flies and dust. What's with this bug screens keeping bug and flies out the house? Good idea if it worked. I got about 50 flies buzzing around into...
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by Anonymous Anyone that has a car, a horn and uses it out of anger or because you're an impatient fuck for 20 seconds, you're a goddamn fucking idiot. I know most of us are in our own goddamn heads....
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by Mercury Staff You could work for the Mercury! The Portland Mercury is looking for an Account Executive with 2+ years experience in media sales. Candidates must have a vast knowledge of the city and...
View ArticleI Love You, Taco Bell Boy
by Anonymous Your calm voice over the speaker, your diamond inner wrist tattoo as your arm gently served the car ahead, your huge sparkly eyes looking at me in the front passenger seat. I was a...
View ArticleLive Review: Sweeping Exits at Black Water Bar, Fri June 9
by Ciara Dolan Sweeping Exits performing at the Black Water Bar, Friday June 9Natalie BehringFew bands put on a show quite like Sweeping Exits, and last Friday's celebration of the glam-punk group's...
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by Eli Sanders Testifying in public today for the first time since January 10.Win McNamee / Getty ImagesAs Attorney General Jeff Sessions begins his public testimony before the Senate Intelligence...
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by Craig Dorfman In the 14 years since Tres Shannon—a founding member of Portland’s famed Voodoo Doughnut—stuck Cap’n Crunch to his creation and called it voodoo, our city has cultivated a reputation...
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by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Here's an I, Anonymous that begins with a common complaint, and then wildly veers into the oncoming lane with something completely different... but still related? YOU BE THE...
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by Dan Savage Ever since I was young, I've masturbated differently than everyone else. I don't play with myself with my hand. Instead what I do is I lie on the floor and hump the floor and the...
View ArticleNews of North Korea: Drones, Dennis Rodman, and the Medical Evacuation of an...
by Leilani Polk LIULOLO/GettyThree separate but noteworthy bits of news have come drifting out of North Korea today that aren't related but somehow come together like flotsam curling and twisting...
View ArticleTweet Storm: Comedians on Sessions Testimony
by Bri Brey Jeff Sessions before the Senate intelligence committee.Attorney General Jeff Sessions just wrapped up his testimony before the Senate intelligence committee where he said "I don't recall,"...
View ArticleStick This in Your Pipe and Smoke It
by Anonymous I swear to god, bagpiper who has been playing downtown for hours on end the last week. I will fucking hang, draw and quarter you like William goddamn Wallace. You played the Skye Boat...
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Which Portland movie theater has the best snacks? by Suzette Smith MAYBE YOU'RE a purist cinephile who thinks movie theaters should be judged on "image presentation" and "sound quality" and "screen...
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