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Willamette Week's "Dr. Know" and guitar player for PDX murder-pop phenoms Slutty Hearts. Avid indoorsman. Addicted to powdered cheese.
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Has Anyone Ever Made a Decision as Stupid as the Iran War?

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By Marty Smith 
| Willamette Week
The Iran War will go down as one of the greatest geopolitical blunders in history. Everyone knew Iran would close the Strait of Hormuz. Now Trump has to give them whatever they want just to get things back to normal. U.S. power in the region will be diminished and we’ll look like (even bigger) idiots. Has anyone ever made a decision this stupid with consequences this disastrous for their nation?
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How and Why did the Snooze Duration on Alarm Clocks Get Codified as Nine Minutes?

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By Marty Smith 
| Willamette Week
How and why did the snooze duration on alarm clocks get codified as nine minutes? —Sleepy Joe Biden The first recognizable bedside alarm clock was patented in 1876 by the Seth Thomas Clock Company—the same firm (he added, shamelessly grasping for a local angle) that built the tower clock atop Portland’s Union Station. America’s first mechanical alarm clock of any kind, however, was a 1787 creation by clockmaker Levi Hutchins.
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Are Acting Cabinet Members in the Presidential Line of Succession?

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By Marty Smith 
| Willamette Week
You recently wrote that if “Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and eight specific Cabinet officials” had been vaporized by aliens, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer (11th in the line of succession) could have become president at the very moment she was (allegedly) visiting a strip club. Shouldn’t it be fewer than eight officials, since some are only ACTING cabinet members? —Jade C. Frankly, Jade, this is a completely inconsequential quibble that smacks of gratuitous pedantry.
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