Alex Halpern

@halpernalex.bsky.social

Expert generalist. Marinite. San Franciscan. Oregonian. Act locally. Views expressly my own.

Playing select, semi-appropriate songs from Tenacious D’s self-titled album Tenacious D for my son and if I am being honest with you that album still slaps as hard as it did in 2003 and I still remember all of the words including the dialogue between songs.

Lori Chavez-Deremer is resigning and since I am one of a handful of people directly responsible for setting into motion a series of events that led to her becoming Labor Secretary, I am feeling good about her total collapse and sad flight home to Clackamas County.

there is no politician so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual misconduct because nobody else could possibly fill their shoes