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Crabs on a Plane!

The Questions Raised by a Seafood Boil in Basic Economy There's a viral photo from 2021 that keeps resurfacing like a persistent low-tide smell—of a woman on a Spirit Airlines flight with an entire seafood boil spread across her tray table. Lobsters. Crab legs. Shrimp. The works.

The Shape of Sorting

I've drafted articles I didn't post. Not because they were wrong, but because sending them would require translation I didn't want to bother with—and I figured no one reading would meet me half way. That hesitation, felt before it's named, is

Ten Miles, Three Worlds

A cheeseburger, tater tots, a soft drink, and a cookie at Mike's Drive-In in Tigard. Fifteen dollars including tip. The lunch crowd is a mix of white and Black folks, a mixed-race couple at the next table, Christmas music drifting from somewhere behind the counter. No one seems

Plateau, Impasse, and the Work of Hope

A recent CrimethInc. article on the “plateau” or “impasse” of the Trump 2.0 era arrived on social media as both diagnosis and summons. It wears the language of analysis—historical comparison, enumerated objectives, retrospective narration—yet it is also unmistakably a call to action. The question worth asking is

Behind the Wheel

A Gentler Systems Analysis of Traffic Safety in Oregon Yesterday, Oregon woke up to a strange sort of compliment. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released their annual “Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws” and put Oregon at the top of the heap. On paper, we were the traffic-safety honor

No Niin: When the Chickens Come Home to Roost

And the roost is about to collapse There’s a Finnish expression—no niin—that captures resignation, inevitability, and dry acknowledgment all at once. It’s what you say when the thing everyone knew was coming finally arrives. It’s what you mutter when the roof leaks again, or when

After Complicity

Or, What Participation Looks Like When You Can't Help But See Things Differently I. The Mechanism of Rejection When I showed up for jury duty, I had no idea it would be so goddamned complicated. Three days in the Multnomah County Courthouse. A criminial case: felon in possession

The Molecule, Day Three: Combustion and Exhaust

There’s a narrow window in Portland traffic where you get an unimpeded straight shot through I-84 into downtown, and I missed that aperture this morning, getting carried along a viscous stream of cars across the Morrison Bridge, down Naito Parkway, and into the $17 a day garage where optimism

The Molecule, Day Two: Compression

I arrive at 6:54AM on my own set of wheels, slipping into a vacant spot on the first level of the parking garage across the street from the courthouse. Today I have a wall charger, longer cables, a copy of JP Ahonen's Sing No Evil, all stuffed

The Constitutional Turducken

Or, The Right To Bear Arms And Why We Can't Have Nice Things "Unfortunately, [the academics] agree because they are all studying the same part: the anus." —David Yamane, sociologist of Gun Culture 2.0 I. Ambient You pull into the lot fifteen minutes after opening.