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WYFP: Our Media Is Failing Us
So, it’s 4am on Halloween and I can’t sleep so I come to the computer room to read the news of the day. I’ve had this nightmare before. 1984, it was Rev. Jesse Jackson. In 1988, it was 1984 all over...
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WYFP: The Failure Of Republican Policy
This past week, I read Matthew Doherty had been firedfrom the Trump administration. He was the executivedirector of the U.S, Interagency Council On Homelessness.USICH coordinates federal policy on...
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WYFP: A Decade of Holiday Blues
Hey-It’s Christmas/Hanukkah/Solstice/Kwanzaa time again. Sigh. I could go on and on and on about my problems (no money/no boyfriend/no presents) but, the computer is acting up again as it usually does...
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WYFP: Shared Resources
I live in subsidized housing after sleeping outside for almost a year in 2011-2012. I don’t own a TV, so I depend on the community television that is in every building in the REACH system. I had an...
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WYFP: Open Thread
Wow, what a week. I was going to write about the primary and my anxiety about a Bloombergcandidacy but, I just watched the debate and Holy Crap, could da Mayor have come off any worse? I’m gleeful.It’s...
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WYFP? Open Thread
Sorry kossacks- I’ve been mostly in bed all weekwith phantom menstrual cramps, which is a symptom of all sorts of fun things like IBS or Crohn’s disease and it gets worse from there. what fun. To top...
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WYFP: The Golden Age Of Armchair Travel
We are living in the golden age of armchair travel. What?! There’s nothing in my cheek, really. Most of us long to go somewhere, especially after the last two years. But, thanks to the internet, we can...
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WYFP: America Is Still Fighting the Civil War
I recently read two books back to back that made me realize why conservatives are losing their freaking minds over Critical Race Theory.Caste:The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson and The...
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WYFP: You Just Can't Make This S*** Up
Mississippi. Goddam. Confederate Heritage Month?! In 2022?When are you going to let it go? This is like the British celebrating “Cavaliers”or the French declaring April Vichy heritage month. And let’s...
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WYFP: Putting It All on The Table
And so, it’s finally happening. The inevitable crap shoot we’ve been predicting since the Reagan administration. Justice Alito is laying it all on the table. We have to yet to see where this bad road...
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WYFP: GOP=Fear Itself
The Republican party has abdicated any responsibility to offer voters a policy platform. Instead, they have chosen to offer a meal of FEAR. And HATE for dessert. I’ve been reading “The Second: Race And...
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WYFP: Fed Up (Open Thread)
So, last night, I was in the kitchen washing dishes to cook something for dinner and was listening to NPR.There was a show on called, Today Explained and the host was playing messages left by listeners...
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WYFP: You Have To Ask?
What a craptastic week, huh? I had a diary all ready about relaxation videos and yoga with goats and this morning….M@@@@@@@@@@@S! I’m having trouble thinking today. We are a nation of laws, except when...
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WYFP: Just Listening To Music To Make The World Go Away
I surrender. It’s a holiday weekend and it’s been a dumpster fire of a month and I just need to hear some cool new music. First up, this year’s Best New Band named by our weekly, Willamette Week,...
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WYFP: Hot! Hot! Hot!
OMFG. It’s 11am and 85F already. I tried sleeping in the kinda cool computer room this morning, only lasted 2 hours, chair isn’t comfortable enough to sleep in. I may go to a cooling center today. Or,...
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WYFP: That 70's Show
Not that 70’s show. The other one. Watergate.I’ve been reading Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff and it’s filled with new information that shows the throughline of corruption of the...
View ArticleA Vote For Liz Cheney Will Be A Vote For Big Oil
I was reading the blogs this morning and would’ve spit my coffee (had I been drinking any) when I read this piece in Salon. I don’t know what Amanda Marcotte is drinking but, she needs to put it down....
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WYFP: This Might Be Worse Than The Dobbs Decision
Once again, I have to delete a perfectly good, well, actually flaky “woe is me” open thread because I find a story on the internet that makes me see red.I was reading my fb feed when a story from...
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WYFP: This Is Not The Fall Weather I'm Looking For
Autumn is finally here, cold weather hasn’t followed, alas. Temps are supposed to be in 70’s-80’s here this week. I hope it cools off soon, I love fall weather and I’m so tired of Summer. Are you...
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WYFP?: The Stuff Nightmares Are Made Of....
October 29. 2022. The election is only 10 days away. Have you voted yet? If your state won’t let you vote early, do you plan to vote November 8? So much more is on the line than in 2020. How so? If we...
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WYFP: Crappy Week Open Thread
I’m having a crappy week. I’ve got neighbors slamming doors again, one who likes to sit in the tub room next to my room and running the water all night. I don't want to know she’s doing in there all...
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WYFP: So, You Wanna Break Up (Oregon)?
This month’s election brought some surprises to the state of Oregon, not all of them good. 11 of 15 counties have voted to make the eastern part of Oregon- Idaho. You might ask yourself, why don’t they...
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WYFP: The 1st Annual* Christmas Quiz
As some of you know, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and every Christmas, we would read Jon Carroll’s Christmas Quiz, a S.F. Chronicle tradition. This is a shameless ripoff. Most of the...
View ArticleThe First Annual* Christmas Quiz (The Answers)
Merry Christmas! Happy Solstice! Happy Hanukkah!Here are the answers to yesterday’s questions. Answers are in bold. Followed by quotes and page citations from “Hollywood: The Oral History” by Jeanine...
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WYFP: In Praise Of Hong Kong Cinema
I was very fortunate to have been introduced to Hong Kong movies in the 1990’s, seeing many of them at the UC Theater in Berkeley, Ca. I’ve always been a fan of foreign films, being a fast reader. I’m...
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WYFP: Talkin' About Police Reform
Say Their Names: Tyre Nichols. Keenan Anderson. Christopher Lee Mercurio. Darryl Tyree Williams. Jackson Lieber. Jaahnavi Kandula. Billy DeWayne Couch. Manuel Esteban Paez Teran.It’s only February 17...
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WYFP: This Again?
I've been here before, unfortunately. My laptop charge cord is no longer working. My battery is leaking and I no longer have a laptop to play with in my apt. At the same time, one of the common area...
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WYFP: Bang Bang
I first heard the term, bang bang, in the late 70’s while reading an article in Photographer magazine about Susan Meiselas’ work in Nicaragua. It’s come to mean many things but foremost it’s what war...
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WYFP: Trump's Crimes Against Art
In 1980, when New York developer Donald J. Trump, purchased the old Bonwit Teller building, he promised to preserve old freizes (one shown above) and grillwork and donate them to the Metropolitan...
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WYFP: Attacking The Right To Protest
Just when I had an easy open thread planned, the newsshows me a story I have to bring to your attention. On Wednesday, Atlanta police arrested 3 members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a non-profit...
View ArticleERIC Is In Trouble
No, not 45’s doofus son.The Electronic Registration Information Center is a bipartisan voting partnership and the only existing system to catch who tries to vote in more than one state. It also alerts...
View ArticleRacism, History and SAWP*
A South Carolina teacher was recently ordered to stop teaching about systemic racism after showing her class a video on the subject ahead of a writing assignment. The writing assignment would have been...
View ArticleGeorgia Poll Workers Cleared of False Charges
Surprising no one, Georgia poll workers, Shaye Moss and her Mother, Ruby Freeman have been cleared of allegations of election fraud by the Georgia Election Board. The investigative report, released...
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WYFP: Some Independence Day
Well, I had a nice, fun diary planned but SCOTUS just crapped all over it yesterday.I used to believe Justice Thomas would never think of overturning Loving vs. Virginia. I no longer believe that. He...
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WYFP: A Good Place To Park
Summertime! Most of us are lucky enough to grow up near a city park, a place where we might climb trees, attend picnics with family, learn to swim or learn crafts during the Summer. My childhood park...
View ArticleWhy We Need To Watch Trump On Trial
When I was 9 years old, my Mother made me watch the Watergate hearings on television. She told me, “This is history being made, you’ll tell your children about this someday” I never had children, much...
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WYFP: Why We Still Need Affirmative Action
I was reading Caribbean Matters today and the picture made me have a breakthrough. People who deny we no longer need affirmative action are lying, not only to themselves but to everyone else. The...
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WYFP: Make Me Laugh (Please?)
We are going through dark times, my friends. I’m not only talking about living thru The Trump years and its aftermath. I’m talking about our media landscape where corporations and streaming services...
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WYFP: Genocide- California Style
Between 1850-1900 California settlers made the Spanish look like boy scouts when it came to killing, raping and pillaging in an obscene land grab begun by the gold rush. Malcom Harris’ new book, Palo...
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WYFP: Corporations Aren't Just People, They're Now Landlords
I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a story about VineBrook Homes, an investment company buying up houses in Indianapolis, IN. to rent out. Stories like these make my blood boil. As if the...
View ArticleWYFP: Saturday Nights Before Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live began October 11, 1975 on NBC. Before SNL, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area, Saturday nights at 11:30pm meant Creature Features on KTVU Channel 2, a then independent station...
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WYFP: Spooky Oregon
I have an ambivalent relationship to the concept of ghosts and hauntings.When I was a teenager and in my early 20’s, I housesat for the managers of a mortuary, who lived above “the store”. The only...
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WYFP: I'm Only Sleeping
My next door neighbor is literally driving me crazy keeping me up at night screaming and banging on our shared wall. The other night, I swear I heard plaster falling from the wall, it wasn’t on my side...
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WYFP: Leftovers
I feel like a leftover. Not a Leftover, but definitely someone always picked last for the team.The other residents in my building have a disturbing habit of following me around the building when staff...
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WYFP: Update On Cop City
The Guardian has just come out with a new report stating the Department Of Homeland Security monitored web posts regarding cop city ahead of a crackdown that has left one protestor dead and 40 others...
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WYFP: What A Crazy Year, Huh?
2023 was a busy year. A former President is under indictment, hawking his mug shot like it’s the latest invention from Ronco. Everybody was on strike. China pissed people off flying balloons around the...
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WYFP: A Cult I Can Get Behind
Cult Movies are a cult I can enjoy and try to turn others onto, you know? So many streaming sites are showing so many old beloved movies. I really can’t understand why Hollywood is determined to keep...
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WYFP: Holiday Perfect Storm
Wow, what a weekend! Yesterday was the New Moon. Today is the Chinese New Year, the Year Of The Wood Dragon. Hitting the Google doodle is fun but, mine wouldn’t load. Tomorrow is Super Bowl Sunday and...
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WYFP: The Media Gets It Right, And Then Says It On TV
I used to listen to the radio whenever I was awake, and sometimes just left it on when I slept. The last two weeks, I’ve suffered radio silence and I’m missing a lot of news. That’s not what I’m...
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WYFP: We Need More Women In The House
In State Houses, that is. Joy Reid reported on Wednesday night that only 31% of our elected representatives in state houses are women. No wonder Arizona happened. In my own state of Oregon, 28 women...
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