Cedar chips for August 1

Notes from soggy Little Beirut for a Friday...

• Big O decides to get on green bandwagon, make almost every story in today's paper about environmental somethingoranother. I think the Trib tried that. It was called Sustainable Life. I think it might be Web only now.
• Various interests say "Buy local! Don't take the cheap imports!" Except we're not talking about Oregon farmers complaining about Chilean strawberries, we're talking about Mexicans not buying Oregon Christmas trees, so this time, it's different. Cursed brown people. Always selling us cheap imports and wanting to buy local. How dare they. (Big O)
• Editor at Portland's Weekly Broadsheet Magazine out. (WWire) Trailblazers plan Dwight Jaynes "Smash the Bobblehead Day" for opening night.
• Natives near Astoria might get reservation, immediately begin planning water park/ski resort/casino/hotel/spa/LNG terminal for reservation. (Columbian)
• A few months ago, wingnut Glenn Beck wrote in a column that we should be taxing higher education endowments because colleges do nothing but raise liberals. (Wingnut Express) And when OHSU can't afford to finish its research into curing alcoholism (Trib), darnit, at least we'll have our tax money, right? Wait, alcoholism costs the state of Oregon how much?
• On an unrelated note, Schlitz is coming back. (Big O)