In Oregon, State Progressivism Spills Over at the Pump

Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly said, Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles. Today, however, Oregon is the state with the strangest state of mind, which has something to do with its being impeccably progressive: In the series Portlandia, the mention of artisanal lightbulbs might be satirical, but given today's gas-pumping controversy, perhaps not. On Jan. 1, by the grace of God — or of the government, which is pretty much the same thing to progressives — a sliver of a right was granted to Oregonians: Henceforth they can pump gas into their cars and trucks, all by themselves ...