The Portland City Council continues to behave strangely on the question of what to do with the Memorial Coliseum. The Trail Blazers appear to have a huge advantage over the other groups with ideas for the aging facility. The Blazers' Drunktown Jumptown plan -- plastic, touristy, corporate pile that it is -- seems pretty much invincible. But the city continues to announce to the world that it's considering other options, including upgrading the Coliseum to do a better job of what it does now -- serve as a junior public events venue to the Rose Garden next door.

The whole discussion seems kind of silly. It's hard to see anybody coming up with the money for doing anything serious there for five to 10 years. Why force a decision now?

And unless and until Little Lord Paulson conclusively moves his minor league baseball team out of town, nobody's going to convince us that his stadium plan for the Coliseum site is completely off the table.