The Nose Dear Nose: I saw the press conference the day after Damon Stoudamire and Rasheed Wallace were busted with a bag of weed in Damon's yellow Hummer near Centralia, Wash. He said that the truth will ...   More

The Nose Your fears will make you foolish. As director Michael Moore points out so vividly in his film Bowling for Columbine, fear is just a tool The Man uses to keep us down.Intellectually, the Nose knows ...   More

The Nose The atmosphere outside the Hilton Hotel last Tuesday night was one part desperation and three parts resignation. The early news reports showed a national landscape littered with bloodied donkeys: ...   More

The Nose The Nose, like everyone else, was relieved at the news that the cops back east had picked up their prime suspect in the D.C. sniper attacks.And, he was surprised that in all the exhaustive coverage ...   More

The Nose This election, the Nose can vote to boost the minimum wage and to reduce the cost of false teeth. He can vote against labeling genetically modified food and for universal health-care coverage. He ...   More

The Nose Is John Ashcroft out of his freakin' mind?He apparently thinks Oregon is harboring a sleeper cell that threatens the security of this nation even more than the terrorists of al Qaeda. The enemy? Ore ...   More

The Nose The FBI's arrest of four Portlanders on Friday has got the Nose thinking that the threat of terrorism at the hands of militant Muslims may be less troubling than he once thought.This is no knock o ...   More

The Nose The Nose ain't a chai-sipping peacenik.He believes passionately in the value of an occasional swift kick in the ass.And while he's convinced that Marilyn TooGood ought to be sterilized, he's not foo ...   More

The Nose If timing is everything, then the brainiacs at the Portland Public Schools are guilty of the worst calendar-reading since Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tim Allen both thought that September 2001 would ...   More

The Nose You want evidence that this state is headed toward the abyss? Looking for proof that Oregon may need to change its state bird from the western meadowlark to the turkey vulture?You're looking in th ...   More