If I may say something about this interesting little cover story in this week’s Willamette Week?  It’s an interesting piece about local gadflys of causes meaningful and not meaningful.

This?

Individual insurrection in America dates back to the 18th century and Thomas Paine, and stretches to Howard Zinn, who died last week at 87. The author of the 1980 classic A People’s History of the United States, Zinn debunked the official narrative of U.S. history by popularizing the hidden truths about this nation’s founding.

In honor of Zinn, we’ve brought together vignettes about the Portland area’s most relentless citizen watchdogs: the men and women who set out each day to puncture the established version of the news by hounding everyone from the Portland Water Bureau to Multnomah County Animal Services.

This strikes me as a bit pretentious and someting of a reach.  Really, I think they just kind of siphoned Zinn at the last minute to a story in production.

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