Mar 15, 2022·edited Mar 16, 2022Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons
The really dangerous epidemic is not Covid. Don't suppose that it ever was. Your solution is correct, too: relearn to say no or trudge on to a collapse into complete squalor. No? Of course not wholly in the Nancy Reagan sense, but still - this far and no farther. Effective compassion often requires sternness, in my experience.
A place like Portland has the hard hand when persecuting "hate crimes" or "homophobia." Indeed, we've become famously merciless when dealing with those who stray off of the rez of progressive groupthink. Joseph McCarthy could only wish for the power of personal and professional destruction modern cancel culture wields. Anti-communism ain't even a close second.
Roosevelt, Earl Warren, J. Edgar Hoover (all of the XO 9066 boyos), and the Stasi would envy the punishment, ostracism, condemnation, and vindictive tracking that all right thinking Portlanders encourage. In our Multnomah Manzanar it is difficult to say who, exactly, are the prisoners: the drug addled lunatics that suffuse our streets or the average Portlander, too intimidated to complain of his capture by criminals, the mad, and the drug addicted. There could not have been more misery in those internment camps. The internees were strong in family and faith and in themselves individually and as a group.
You know, I was never quite certain that we got the correct lesson from the internment of Japanese-Americans. Now, I'm certain of it.
As a boy and young man I would occasionally come across a photograph of Babitz and it never occurred to me to question her chess skills. Probably Duchamp didn't much either. You never know. Anyway, I've been reading her autobiographical material lately. She captured a world we have lost as surely as did Tom Wolfe. The fire famously changed her but I do not know her work well enough to say how.
Babitz was there at the beginning and she saw the direction in which it was all tending.
A pro bono attorney will surely pop up and sue the city for the sad condition of the child and mother? How many newborns are stuffed into the ground along our highway roadsides and boulder border areas such as the one at Market and 13th? Were we to turn up several small corpses what would be our verdict on our society, especially from progressive women leaders?
I can think of very little more grotesque yet more commonplace than this instance of what we do to ourselves, our society.
Mar 14, 2022·edited Mar 14, 2022Liked by Pamela Fitzsimmons
Excellent article Pamela. I share your perspective on this and am basically at the end of my rope with the failed city council leaders in Portland, too. I hear your frustration. But I am also still so sad about how this happened. I can't imagine being in that woman's place. I also believe it's possible that this woman had a substance abuse issue, but it could be she was just really crazy. You are a really skilled journalist. You write in a way I can't. I admire the articles you've written and I've read quite a few of them.
I am fully aware of my limitations as a writer. I'm more of a creative writer and am probably too sentimental in my writing, so I'm just going to say, don't let these kinds of stories make you lose your compassion for the most unfortunate people in this world. By that I mean the chronically mentally ill who wander the streets, lost in a hellish world of hallucinations and paranoia, screaming at the sky, or in a zombie daze.
I think its a disservice to Portland that places like the Oregonian or the Tribune don't have journalists like you working for them. But then no one wants to hear the harsh, unvarnished truth either. I will continue to read your articles and share them. :)
The really dangerous epidemic is not Covid. Don't suppose that it ever was. Your solution is correct, too: relearn to say no or trudge on to a collapse into complete squalor. No? Of course not wholly in the Nancy Reagan sense, but still - this far and no farther. Effective compassion often requires sternness, in my experience.
A place like Portland has the hard hand when persecuting "hate crimes" or "homophobia." Indeed, we've become famously merciless when dealing with those who stray off of the rez of progressive groupthink. Joseph McCarthy could only wish for the power of personal and professional destruction modern cancel culture wields. Anti-communism ain't even a close second.
Roosevelt, Earl Warren, J. Edgar Hoover (all of the XO 9066 boyos), and the Stasi would envy the punishment, ostracism, condemnation, and vindictive tracking that all right thinking Portlanders encourage. In our Multnomah Manzanar it is difficult to say who, exactly, are the prisoners: the drug addled lunatics that suffuse our streets or the average Portlander, too intimidated to complain of his capture by criminals, the mad, and the drug addicted. There could not have been more misery in those internment camps. The internees were strong in family and faith and in themselves individually and as a group.
You know, I was never quite certain that we got the correct lesson from the internment of Japanese-Americans. Now, I'm certain of it.
As a boy and young man I would occasionally come across a photograph of Babitz and it never occurred to me to question her chess skills. Probably Duchamp didn't much either. You never know. Anyway, I've been reading her autobiographical material lately. She captured a world we have lost as surely as did Tom Wolfe. The fire famously changed her but I do not know her work well enough to say how.
Babitz was there at the beginning and she saw the direction in which it was all tending.
A pro bono attorney will surely pop up and sue the city for the sad condition of the child and mother? How many newborns are stuffed into the ground along our highway roadsides and boulder border areas such as the one at Market and 13th? Were we to turn up several small corpses what would be our verdict on our society, especially from progressive women leaders?
I can think of very little more grotesque yet more commonplace than this instance of what we do to ourselves, our society.
More like Regan Revolution but let's not quibble over details.
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Excellent article Pamela. I share your perspective on this and am basically at the end of my rope with the failed city council leaders in Portland, too. I hear your frustration. But I am also still so sad about how this happened. I can't imagine being in that woman's place. I also believe it's possible that this woman had a substance abuse issue, but it could be she was just really crazy. You are a really skilled journalist. You write in a way I can't. I admire the articles you've written and I've read quite a few of them.
I am fully aware of my limitations as a writer. I'm more of a creative writer and am probably too sentimental in my writing, so I'm just going to say, don't let these kinds of stories make you lose your compassion for the most unfortunate people in this world. By that I mean the chronically mentally ill who wander the streets, lost in a hellish world of hallucinations and paranoia, screaming at the sky, or in a zombie daze.
I think its a disservice to Portland that places like the Oregonian or the Tribune don't have journalists like you working for them. But then no one wants to hear the harsh, unvarnished truth either. I will continue to read your articles and share them. :)