dkSez : : : : : : Don Kahle’s blog

The Oregon Bach Festival crowd wears just as much make-up as they do at the Fair, but applied to different body parts.

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… an ingenious traffic-calming strategy called cobblestone. Shopkeepers love it. These original rough-hewn roads seem to shake the money directly out of visitors’ pockets.

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We’re as sticky with oil as those Gulf state pelicans. We won’t be able to clean ourselves easily or soon. And until we do, real progress is out of the question.

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Solomon may have been right when he mused “there’s nothing new under the sun.” That obstacle to originality barely bothers us for eight months each year, explaining why the Pacific Northwest registers more patents per capita than any other region in the world.

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Your references to lipstick might mystify a Eugene audience. You won’t see many of us devoted to glamor and fashion, strutting in high heels and wearing lots of make-up — at least not many of our women.

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The man makes $1.55 million a year. Does his family need more than that? It’s clear he “decided to listen” to find out how much money was on the table. That cracks the code for me

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The first thing to know about taxes is that we hate them, so we want to tax only things or people we hate more. We call them “sin taxes.” Here are four new ones.

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If more Americans take more risks, some will create wealth for themselves and the nation, keeping this new government expenditure sustainable. But if we use the new safeguards to become complacent, our nation will slide into deeper debt and lose its stature in the world.

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If the Supreme Court won’t allow money to have less of a voice, how about lifting the 1911 law and restoring how much voice the Constitution afforded each vote?

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Choices we make today affect choices we’ll have tomorrow. But it’s no less true that expectations we have for tomorrow affect choices we make today.

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