We bitch about the rain, we bitch about the Ducks, we bitch about Animal House — all of which, as a native Eugenean Oregonian in Sandy Eggian Exile, is our birthright. But every once in awhile, something comes along to remind us of the Eugene we loved, the Eugene where everybody wears socks with their Birks without thinking twice.

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Our guest columnist is Republican Florida state representative Rachel Burgin, who is only following orders.

House Memorial

A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging Congress to cut the federal corporate tax rate.

WHEREAS, it is the mission of the American Legislative Exchange Council to advance Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, and…

HM 685 [Florida House]

Oops: Florida Republican Forgets To Remove ALEC Mission Statement From Boilerplate Anti-Tax Bill [ThinkProgress]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxKhUuZ0Rc

Welcome to Scotland, Siri, where voice-recognition goes to die.

The iPhone’s Siri doesn’t seem so smart in Scotland [LAT]

Let the “You’re Fired!” references begin. (Press conference in progress.)

Our guest columnist is a Seventeenth Century writing committee. President Obama quoted the last line — Luke 12:48 — at this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast.

Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPhh7mch5zo

We haven’t read Game Change — as a rule, we only buy campaign books by Hunter S. Thompson — but as we recall, it was reviewed as Politico Whacking Material, chock full of breathless unsourced gossip that left you knowing less at the end than when it began.

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Our guest columnists are Representatives Cary Condotta, Jim McCune, Jason Overstreet, and Matt Shea, of the Great Weird State of Washington.

AN ACT Relating to establishing the 2012 gold and silver legal tender act of Washington state; adding a new chapter to Title 43 RCW; and providing an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. FINDINGS AND INTENT.

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