Nov. 1: A bad golf shot, a house sitter, and a cat In that balmy idiom known as the English language (that is, as it's spoken in Soho Square, Liverpool and in a few long ago abandoned colonies), Foozle translates as a "bad golf shot."
Oct. 11: The news media fails us in our time of need Almost thirty years ago, British writer Malcolm Muggeridge complained about the growing amount of news available to the public, particularly on television. News was becoming a background hum in our lives, a ceaseless drip. It was, he said, a kind of Newsak complimenting the Musak that permeated department stores, elevators and corporate telephone lines.
Sept. 29: A solution to this Mars-Venus thing What is it with men and pillowcases? It's an astounding conundrum of physics gone awry; a mechanical, logical happening that should happen and doesn't.
Cathy Shaw - State Street
Abolitionist movement eyes OLCC As phone lines burn across Oregon and legislators gather in small groups trying to decide how millions of dollars can be cut from the Oregon budget in the upcoming special session, Don MacIntire (author of Measure 5) has a partial solution: abolish the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC). I have never before agreed with a measure brought to the Oregon voters by Don MacIntire, but this petition deserves our signature and the initiative our vote.
Last week's column covered the first battle of the Great Limburger Cheese War. This one will cover the last one. 