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on Northwest Passages: Chelsea Cain
New, new, new!
posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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on Northwest Passages: Chelsea Cain
Folks,
(This is largely a repost of a comment I wrote for the Strategic Default thread. Sadly, it applies here as well.)
I've just deleted nearly thirty comments from this thread that were personal attacks. Some of the comments were from a few days ago; sorry it took so long.
As many people have noticed, the level of discussions in these threads has taken a real dive over the last few months. We don't want to alienate more people like Desolation, who wrote, "with the hostility and lack of intellect on display I find to be far too juvenile and poisonous to bother with this forum any longer."
We'll do our part to monitor the threads more carefully, and to enforce our commenting guidelines more assiduously. I hope that all of you will stick around to keep these threads what they've been for so long: models of frank, feisty, and respectful dialogue.
Dave
posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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on Strategic Default
Folks,
I've just deleted over twenty comments from this thread that were personal attacks. Some of the comments were from a few days ago; sorry it took so long.
As many people have noticed, the level of discussions in these threads has taken a real dive over the last few months. We don't want to alienate more people like Desolation, who wrote, above, "with the hostility and lack of intellect on display I find to be far too juvenile and poisonous to bother with this forum any longer."
We'll do our part to monitor the threads more carefully, and to enforce our commenting guidelines more assiduously. I hope that all of you will stick around to keep these threads what they've been for so long: models of frank, feisty, and respectful dialogue.
Dave
posted 2 years, 3 months ago
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on Egypt Revolts
Thanks for this link! We'd missed that important bit of info...
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on Integration
Jacob,
I think you started to answer your own question. Data from trusted sources is always welcome. "In Africa most black men who go to the city to work have one wife in the village and another wife in town and spend most of their money on booze, smokes, jewlery and other women" doesn't seem particularly rigorous or fact-based to me.
Dave
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Integration
Gereng,
Trafficking in gross racial stereotypes doesn't really further this conversation.
Dave
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Carrie Brownstein and Portlandia
Maybe a Public Grammarian segment on a future episode of Portlandia? Me like it.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Carrie Brownstein and Portlandia
Thanks for the kind words. In fact, I'm working on a pilot for what we hope will turn into a weekly show about arts, culture, and life in Portland. More — including two hours to listen to —here:
http://blogs.opb.org/thespeakeasy/
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on The Slow Path to Adulthood
Jacob,
If you want to point us to previous posts you've written, the simplest (and space-saving-est) way to do it is just provide links to your old posts. That way you don't have to copy and paste whole chunks of text repeatedly in new threads.
Thanks,
Dave
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Football!
Desolation,
As you can from an update I just posted, we'll be talking about the Glendale shootings in the last third of the show. We're scrambling right now to get guests for the segment.
Dave
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Good News About Violent Crime
Here's the KTVZ thread Emily just mentioned.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Good News About Violent Crime
"What agenda are you pushing, trying to steer to conversation to fear mongering?"
Far from it. Among other questions we're interested in looking at how personal experience affects your take on dropping crime rates.
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Good News About Violent Crime
See above. A hint: it's not about Hitler!
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Good News About Violent Crime
Whoa. Some serious semiotics!
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Good News About Violent Crime
"‘88’ would not do that!"
Maybe I'm showing my age, or my lack of internet with-it-ness, but who/what is "88"?
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on The Meaning of Marriage
Jen,
A quick reply to your last point. I think you're referring to the Southern Poverty Law Center's recent report that included NOM in a list of "18 Anti-Gay Groups." In fact, the SPLC didn't include NOM in its category of soon-to-be-listed hate groups. (You can read more in the report.) In case you're interested, this is NOM's response.
Dave
posted 2 years, 5 months ago
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on Bye For Now
Scott, I'm not sure I deserve this (in fact I'm pretty sure I don't), but it's the most meaningful tribute I could imagine. Literally. You captured what I aspire to do, whether I did it or not, and that's how I'll hold onto this: as an aspiration, a challenge, a charge.
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Bracing for Bad Budget Numbers
It just goes to show: there's no such thing as an easy answer!
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Bracing for Bad Budget Numbers
I've gotta ask, because maybe my sarcasm detector is on the fritz: tongue in cheek or serious?
posted 2 years, 9 months ago
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on Bracing for Bad Budget Numbers
Here's a great Kristian Foden-Vencil piece about state economist Tom Potiowsky from yesterday:
http://www.opbnews.org/article/business-owners-hope-leading-indicators-reveal-good-news/
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