I know it's ghoulish of me, but in the way that other people watch the early returns come in on Election Day, every now and then, on Friday afternoons, I watch the FDIC site to see which banks have been taken over.
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Oregon blogs (non-blue)
- Alas, a Blog
- Chuck Currie
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- Jack Bog's Blog (2020+ edition)
- Oregon Commentator
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- Utopia, dystopia, frytopia.
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Our friends up north
Our friends WAY up north
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Recent Posts
- Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi sed saepe cadendo
- Dinner with Robespierre, and others
- Clarence Thomas points the way to the future - and to the past
- The Alito Court finishes its first year with a bombshell
- Yesterday we learned more about the pardon list
- The Supreme Court stands up for the parental rights of rapists
- When it absolutely, positively has to be in the vice president's hands overnight, call Senator Ron Johnson
- A song for Rudy Giuliani and his pardon list
- Theodore Roosevelt had the root causes of today's inflation pegged -- in 1907
- Is William Baxter (1929-1998) the culprit behind today's shortage of baby formula? History and economics say "yes"
Recent Comments
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