Pearl Harbor - 60 years ago for some I wasn't there, but I grew up close enough to it to have realized the significance and the consequences.Friday marks the 60th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Dec. 4: The stinking rich The old adage, "You are what you eat," should have a codicil, "and you smell like it." Your diet has a definite effect on your odor. Etiologists believe that a change in the national diet of Japan gave birth to the classification of the wealthy class as "the stinking rich."
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.
