There always seems to be that one guy or gal coasting alongside your car with calf muscles the size of their head, a finely tuned bike and perhaps an oddly shaped helmet. They always seem to flow through traffic with ease, cruising beside the cars they share the road with.
We live in a place where the president draws scrutiny from multiple angles, where a political majority gains misgivings and where we are confronted with places like Darfur.
Presidential candidate John McCain (R-Arizona) recently made waves in the sea of media with statements he made on an evangelical website, www.beliefnet.com. One of his comments that has been highlighted says “The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.”
Earlier this year, the Oregon Legislature passed two bills: Senate Bill 2, which provides gay citizens protection under Oregon’s discrimination laws, and House Bill 2007, giving domestic partnership benefits to same sex couples.
For years it has been repeated to us from our parents, our friends or the pop culture movie about a kid who strives to go to college and make something of his or her self.
In 1987, one of the greatest works of prophecy was released upon the big screens across America. The film Robocop showed us a world where we could magically watch video on CDs, and how gas-hogging cars would be all the rage. But perhaps the greatest message was the warning to be wary of privatizing government functions.
Most of us know already that driving to Portland State is a bad idea, and new students will eventually figure out that this is true for multiple reasons. Gas, traffic and parking.
“Infotainment” is a term that has been tossed around for the last few years to describe the overwhelming amount of soft journalism and lack of actual hard news in our media. It also refers to the sense of inaccuracy that we find in the modern news climate.
Television host Bill O’Reilly said on air last year, “We’re not at war with granny fricken, we’re at war with Muslim fanatics… the terror war is driven by them.”
Stop. Go. Stop…sit for a while. Go. Stop. Stop and…stop. This is the current routine of the Portland driver. Like a plague, construction work has seeped into every drivable route though our fair city, making every turned corner a path to yet another eyesore, and another traffic jam.
Linda Peeno is a medical physician who came out of the insurance world disgusted with what she both saw and was hired to do. In 1996, she testified before Congress, admitting that she denied vital health care to a man who later died, thus saving the company she worked for half a million dollars.