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Wm.™ Steven Humphrey's "Unfuckwithable Rules of the White Elephant Gift...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Our annual Mercury office "White Elephant Gift Exchange" is going down tomorrow, and you're not invited. HOWEVER! In the public's interest, here is my annual blog post, "Wm.™...
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Vice Is Ditching Comments, Too. Santa Must Be Real After All!
by Sean Nelson Commentary and dissent really have merged to form DissentaryVice.com announced yesterday that it will join the growing number of websites (NPR.com, Reuters, Popular Science) that are...
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Portland's Going to Cease Corporate Investments—For Four Months Or So
by Dirk VanderHart The Portland City Council held the last meeting in its current form today. Its final decision? Ceasing investing city tax dollars in all corporate bonds. At least for a few months....
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Good Morning, News: Charlie Hales, Weed Delivery, and 911 Flaws
by Doug Brown Good morning, Portland. These links are begging to be clicked. Jeremy EatonOut in print yesterday, make sure to check out Dirk VanderHart's piece on outgoing Mayor Charlie Hales' legacy...
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Recap: Blazers Drop Another One, 96-95
by Aris Hunter Wales The last few days have been pretty rough in the Trail Blazer camp. Looking like the home squad has so far this season, a loss at the hands of the Warriors on Saturday wasn’t gonna...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: Scenes From a Marriage
by Dan Savage I’ve been married forever (over 40 years) and am still sexually active. Our sex life has mostly consisted of oral sex—his choice. Personally, I prefer penetration, which we have for 30...
View ArticleWatch and Marvel at the Teamwork Behind an SNL Set Change
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Is it possible for Americans to ever again truly work together? Well, anything is possible, as you'll see from this unusually exciting behind-the-scenes sneaky peek of an SNL...
View ArticleTop Five Christmas Songs: Jenni Moore’s List
by Jenni Moore While I’m not a Christian Christmas-celebrator by any means (I’m just here for the Pagan rituals, retail therapy, and peanut butter blossoms), I have always been obsessed with the...
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Things to Do Tonight!
by Mercury Staff Cheer The Fuck Up: An OK Chorale Holiday Pop Songs Sing-Along It’s only three days until C-day, and you’re already sick of all the usual Christmas tunes. Tonight, Portland’s OK...
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The 34 Moments in Film & TV That Helped Us Survive 2016
by Sean Nelson Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Mackenzie Davis in Black Mirror’s “San Junipero.”LAURIE SPARHAM/NETFLIX• The moment when, in Black Mirror's "San Junipero,""Heaven Is a Place on Earth" plays and...
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Activist Jessie Sponberg Wrote a Christmas Poem About Charlie Hales....
by Dirk VanderHart In this week's paper, we've got a retrospective on outgoing Mayor Charlie Hales'travails with the homelessness crisis that took root during his tenure. We talked to a boatload of...
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State Officials Are Investigating a Multnomah County Deputy Who Shouted...
by Dirk VanderHart While Mike Reese was waiting to be formally christened Multnomah County sheriff on November 8, one of his subordinates was pushing a very different candidate. As we reported at the...
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Trump's Transition Team is Going After the State Department's Gender Equality...
by Megan Burbank This is not normal.TriggerPhoto / iStockFirst they did it with Energy Department employees working on climate change, and now they're doing it with the State Department's programs to...
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by Anonymous I bought your indie porn before we went on a date. Like 6 months before I realized you were a real person. It was incredibly sexy and worth it. But then by some small fucking miracle we...
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Things To Do This Christmas Weekend!
Things to do for December 23-25 by Mercury Staff Holy shit, we made it to Christmas! Gonna be honest—wasn't entirely convinced that was gonna happen. Lord knows if any year was going to figure out a...
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Good Morning, News: Christmas is Here! And We're Still in Deep Trouble
by Dirk VanderHart This is a Krampus. It is also the most fitting image I could find for Christmas 2016.It's nearly Christmas! Please god tell me your travels don't route you through LAX. If so,...
View ArticleDon't Miss Rachel Maddow's Wildly Interesting Interview with Kellyanne Conway
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Last night Rachel Maddow somehow convinced Trump's former campaign manager and now counselor Kellyanne Conway to come on her show—and for that, I give Kellyanne props. It takes...
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The Mercury's Most Read Stories of 2016
by Bri Brey As if you wanted to relive this year, here are the top 10 most read stories from our site. DOUG BROWN1. TRUMP PROTESTS: Cops Helped A Massive Anti-Trump Protest Shut Down I-5 on...
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Savage Love Letter of the Day: New To America & Ready To Get Laid
by Dan Savage I'm a 25-year-old immigrant who recently moved to the USA. For most of my life, I've been an introvert living in a small town and my interactions with girls and women has been limited....
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After Deaths and Outcry, the City's Spending $300,000 to Educate People About...
by Dirk VanderHart Rohgzhao Zhang had only lived in the US for around a year on the night his life ended on outer Division Street. The 65-year-old moved here in order to create a better life for his...
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