Portland, Oregon is an interesting town. I spent the day there with a few friends and here's what happened: We went to the Portland Beer Fest, which was pretty great. The highlight, of course, was my brush with Jimi Hendrix On the way down there, we were almost accosted by Pete the Ginger, who was standing on a street corner trying to talk to people about green jobs. I told him that I was from Detroit and don't care about green jobs. I just want my manufacturing jobs back. EG told me I was likely to get stoned for saying that in Portland. On the way back, we were accosted again, this time by a woman from Children International trying to get us to sponsor poor children overseas. Our conversation went on for nearly 30 minutes with her starting out trying to talk to us about dinosaurs holding laser guns and whatnot. It really made no sense, and it went on forever, until she got to her point that by donating $22 a month would allow a kid to be a kid, thinking about things like who would win in a fight, a monkey with a samurai sword or a raptor with a ...