The Dispatch57%
The End of the West Near Portland, Oregon 55%
By Paul J. Pastor68%
7/31/2026, 11:45:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Middle Ground, Genetic Fallacy, and Anchoring Bias, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 35.2% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 262 faulty-reasoning hits from 125 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 45.2% and a BS Rank of 55% (13,618 of 30,190 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 54.90% of the article peer group.
Nobody knows for sure where the name came from.
*Oregon*, I mean.
There are a couple dozen theories.
Maybe those sounds started as something in one of the many Native languages, or Spanish, or Portuguese, or maybe it was a mistake on a French map.
Maybe it’s from “Ouragan,” the mythic river of the West, or maybe it’s something about the wind, or the waterfalls, or oregano (yes, the herb), which the conquistadors found in the south as they traveled up the coastline trying to stick flags in stuff.
Paul J.
Pastor is executive editor of Nelson Books, a widely published writer, and author of several books, most recently, *The Locust Years: Poems*.
He lives in Oregon.
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100%flagged-word coveragePaul J.
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