Sheesh!

“Portland has been hit by a wave of destructive protests since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that touched off demonstrations and riots in cities across the country.” — Reed college students, fucking assholes, been running the city for years, no press because of “The Portland Mercury,” it’s been true for 20 years.

Didn’t you know it takes a “B” average to get into Reed? It’s ranked 68th — hardly Georgetown, or Wesleyan, or Columbia. They never leave the fucking city. *Never*. And they’re not that smart. And they fly out here — because their mommies and daddies can send them — and they take the 75 bus on 39th street in-and-out of the city and lo-and-behold! … *convince* themselves that the rest of the city is more campus!

You can tell who they are because they’re assholes, already making in-jokes even though you’ve never seen them before. One of them got me thrown out of a well-known book store because he thought I was shoplifting because … well, he’s suspicious! And bags don’t have to be checked, and paying for things *is* optional at the coffee shop in the store he works at (they just ask you to move; there’s even a sign up in the store he’s worked at for almost two years, but he’s too good to notice it), but he got “suspicious” … which means, constantly bored, and looking for stimuli that’s not the “regular” sort — not unlike a psychotic, but culturally so, in terms of everything-in-life’s-a-TV-show-or-video-game. It’s not. It’s deadly dull, most often so, and you have to look for … well, fuck it! He’s at Reed. Still.