Paul Allen is possibly the biggest shiathead in the last two decades of American civilization. He gave us Ticketmaster. He gave us patent-trolling as a putatively legitimate business. ("Intellectual Ventures.") He has taken the giant windfall that Bill Gates blessed him with and used it to be as big a self-enriching, amoral bastard as possible.
Which is a shame because I love Portland to the point where the frau and I almost moved there. But I didn't, so all I can do is shiat as aggressively as possible in Paul Allen's direction. He is a human anus.