Cedar chips for July 29

Musings from Little Beirut for a Tuesday...

• Environmental nutsies plan "acts of civil disobedience" to try and stop I-5 bridge from being built. Drivers, sick of being stuck in traffic for 2 hours to get to Washington to go buy frozen custard or El Pollo Loco, plan their own acts of civil disobedience: Rev your engine, expand your carbon footprint; provoking bicyclists; and idling with front tires on the draw span of I-5 bridge and back tires on the fixed span, keeping river traffic from passing by. (Trib)
• Man stumbles upon nude beach with kids and Taco Bell dogs, gets hit with 74-year-old nudist's expanding baton. Seriously. (KATU) (Perez Hilton)
• Democrats promise less partisan '09 session, forget that there are still Republicans who will do their best to make the majority sound as partisan as possible. (Big O)
• Radio hate jock says a certain political mindset is a mental disorder; members of certain religions should be banned; protestors should die… but dammit, don't be mean to our children! (SF Chron)
• Man stabbed at MAX station (Trib), so any day now the rich folks in the suburbs should be screaming with pitchforks that MAX is unsafe. This despite no adult being stabbed at a train station in the suburbs since approximately 1873, when Toothless Joe Duyck got in a tussle with Jellico Heynricxs about who was more Dutch on the Mt. Hood Railway's Gresham platform.
• OPB looks at Oregon open source community, fails to miss major connection — this is how we plan everything in Oregon. We get everybody together and say "you add whatever you want to project X." That way, when the proposal is finally finished, everyone can have something to hate. (See I-5 bridge for reference.) That, my friends, is open source government. (TOL)