Ghost Town

So the Washington State flag is actively immoral, our Oregon flag (despite being the only state flag with two distinct sides) is boring as stale dogcrap, and the Vancouver, B.C. flag is just weird-looking. Would we have to actually secede from our respective countries to simultaneously change all of our flags to the Doug Flag? As the Seattle Weekly puts it: "Anything would be better than our current flag, the Cascadian flag is just one example of the power a symbol can have on the collective consciousness of a place. When you put a tree on a flag instead of a slave owner, suddenly people want to talk about the environment and equity instead of money and power. It’s a lesson our state could take to heart." http://www.seattleweekly.com/home/954425-129/the-washington-state-flag-sucks

Our beagles have forgotten every single thing about being a wild animal except for hoarding. (And the last paragraph doesn't apply to them. They are fed plenty. Ask their vet.) http://dogcare.dailypuppy.com/dogs-hide-bones-1692.html

Clyde steals dog food from the bin, even though he has a full bowl nearby. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Cgfm30ppU

Despite having a full bowl of dog food, #clydethebeagle  prefers to steal food out of the bin.

I need to be really successful at something so I can say, "I made out like a Roomba salesperson at a beagle meetup."

In which Buzzfeed and HuffPo reveal their dastardly endgame-- the final extermination of the human race because no second dates ever. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/21/24-questions-date-buzzfeed-video_n_5698108.html

"Journalists have been infantilized throughout the last decade, kept in a state of relative ignorance about the firms that employ them. A friend tells a story of reporters being asked the paid print circulation of their own publication. Their guesses ranged from 150,000 to 300,000; the actual figure was 35,000. If a reporter was that uninformed about a business he was covering, he’d be taken off the story."  https://medium.com/@cshirky/last-call-c682f6471c70

Weekend Trip to Netarts and Oceanside. https://plus.google.com/103961050545011124941/stories/16bb9e53-b751-3447-80be-c0f3f8840b65147e7b7d247

Clyde on the beach.

Clyde on the beach.

#ClydeTheBeagle

Looks like there might, at long last, be some sort of justice, even in Texas. http://www.texastribune.org/2014/08/15/grand-jury-indicts-perry-abuse-authority/

Just had a bee in my apartment. No way am I going to do anything to contribute even inadvertently to a bee's demise at this point, so I very carefully trapped and released. Which was kind of pathetically easy to do. Poor guy seemed really disoriented.

Bridge Pedal! https://plus.google.com/103961050545011124941/stories/9ccb7632-77ef-3654-9aee-5fdb90f1e4ff147c3cc2766

Bridge Pedal.

Clyde and Austin at Beaglepalooza 2014.

Clyde and Austin at Beaglepalooza 2014.

Border Collies are going to clean up what Montana calls "Goose Poop Park". http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/08/portland_may_enlist_border_col.html

Creepy giant hands, Fox Cave, outside Ruidoso, NM.

This road in #SantaFe beats any pothole in East #Portland.