8 June 2020 On May 30, 2020, Lisa Weasel, Professor & Chair of the Department of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies, wrote a letter to you as an individual, that…
Ted Wheeler’s escalation is a betrayal of Portland values
Double talk. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has claimed to be empathetic toward Black lives and the call for justice against police violence, but at the same time, he is urging…
The financial inviability of esports: many watch, few profit
Competitive gaming as an industry, or rather, a sport, has leaped onto the scene in the last decade. Games like Riot’s League of Legends and Valve’s Dota 2 dominated the…
HYH: the fun in the sun edition
It’s summertime in Portland and that can only mean one thing: the flaming sky orb will throw its fury down upon us. Hooray! Don’t be fooled by the pleasant cool…
Why America hates math
“It makes me feel really stupid, I have a very hard time comprehending it.” “It makes me feel bad. I feel less intelligent.” “I just get frustrated.” When I…
The grand reopening edition
At some point during this crisis I sort of forgot things were generally closed around the state; malls, theaters, that sort of thing made sense, but I also forgot even…
Tom Nook is not your friend: debt, peonage and tarantulas
It was kind of a lucky break for Nintendo to release Animal Crossing: New Horizons when it did. With COVID-19 raging and the world succumbing to a decided lack of…
Have You Heard: the no more meat edition
In general, I would consider a pandemic to be the kind of situation where you just kind of let things go and adapt, but there are a lot of things…
The “yep, still at home” edition
The worst part of this whole quarantine, I think, is the fact you have to stare at all these massive projects in your residence that you’d totally do if you…
Government small enough to die of COVID-19
I want to go back to the pre-Trump days and argue a long-standing point of political philosophy: the cherished Republican ideal of small government. Remember when Grover Norquist said, “I…
The return to normal
As locales like Georgia and Las Vegas rush to open the doors to their businesses during this pandemic, Oregon and Washington remain wary. Although normal might mean getting a haircut…