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Tom's Blog

From vehicle maintenance to community issues, Tom covers what matters to drivers in Portland.

Tom’s Tidbits- Snowden and the NSA… keep your eye on the ball

Greetings! Did Edward Snowden watch and learn from the lessons of Bradley Manning?  More importantly, have we? Manning leaked information

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Keith Tucker’s “What NOW?!! Toon” for July

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Orwell Was An Optimist

The best articles on the evolving NSA scandal Edward Snowden’s allegations about the NSA are so serious and pervasive that

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”Idiot lights”? Only if you don’t understand them!

What do your dashboard warning lights mean? Some people call them “idiot lights” but they’re more properly called “dashboard warning

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“1998 and Newer” isn’t for everyone

If you’re an existing client, we’ll gladly work on your older cars! While most shops will work on anything that

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Drew’s Kitchen- Kelley’s Creamed Potatoes & Peas

Celebrity watchers at the first Sellwood Park Summer Concert may have caught a glimpse of Drew enjoying a picnic with

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Shop Talk- Calendar nominations, road trip tips, and an indestructible kitten

Call for Nominations- 2014 Tom Dwyer Charitable Giving Calendar! We always feel a little silly this time of year because,

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Health Notes- The sweetener that gives monkeys tumors

Here’s a situation we’ve all been in… you’re working in a lab on an anti-ulcer drug, but you create a

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Sellwood Bridge Update- What’s missing in this picture?

Portland weather reports are pretty boring through the summer.  They’re always “sunny and warm, with a slight chance of widely

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Book Spotlight- Surprise! No one’s innocent

One of the most common rationalizations from the citizenry to permit continued surveillance is that “If you don’t have anything

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Humorousness- The lighter side of Orwellian Hell

One of the oldest theories of comedy is that comedy is built on pain.  So, in keeping with our NSA

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Popcorn Shorts for July 2013

Just like it says, Popcorn Shorts is about the kind of things we think are really interesting, but don’t really

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