We're back in town after a relaxing few days at the beach -- and we discover that the gods of Google advertising are displeased. When we update this blog, regularly and relentlessly, every few hours, they smile on us with a buck a day or more. When we take a day or two to go slow, the flow is reduced to pennies a day.

Our clueless municipal leaders have Portland falling all over itself to get into bed with the Google-bots. As a taxpayer, we worry about that. Put it on the list.