dkSez : : : : : : Don Kahle’s blog

Following from last week, I wonder why it seems we overlook what acronyms most easily mean to outsiders. I can still remember arriving in Eugene and thinking it strange that every mass transportation vehicle was plastered with LTD — which means “limited” everywhere else. That doesn’t seem like the message you want to be sending about your alternative transportation system. Before that, the Pacific Northwest became famous for the largest public boondoggle in American history — a nuclear power plant that never came on line and lost tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, the Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) — pronounced “whoops!” And now we have the Western Oregon Plan Revision — “Whopper” — to describe the Bush plan to limit logging by allowing more of it. Hmmm?