As the area digs out of Snowzilla in 2016, we might compare how political philosophies may be expressed in how people shovel their snow.
Entries Tagged as 'Grins'
Shoveling Partisanship
January 23rd, 2016 No Comments
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Eugene Should Host the Annual Toilet Bowl
January 2nd, 2016 No Comments
I can imagine the schools buying ads during the game, touting their academic achievements and all the ways they remind their students that football is fun, but it’s just a game.
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Kesey Could Be Square Around Here
December 4th, 2015 2 Comments
“You have two problems,” he told me. “All the solutions proposed have been either too little or too much.”
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Frippery: Rhymes With Slippery
October 30th, 2015 No Comments
“Nonce” should already be a word, if only because you’d never have to be told its meaning — not once.
Tags: fripperies · querulous quibbles
Frip Away the Summer Heat
July 31st, 2015 4 Comments
We should have suspected something when every website’s response button was labeled “submit.”
Tags: comfort food
Self-Driving Cars Have Arrived (Almost)
June 26th, 2015 6 Comments
The car had been uncooperative when my foot was in the wrong place. Now it was unhappy for some other reason. We were in conversation about my personal failings.
Tags: rental car · Rip Van Winkle · self-driving cars
A Little Summer FUFFFery
May 29th, 2015 1 Comment
Except for the flying part, haven’t our cars become everything we expected from jet packs?
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PERS Retirement Funding Prompts Creative Solutions
May 8th, 2015 No Comments
I knew I had come to the right place, even if it was a disconcertingly dark place. Farsnow continued. “This is impolite to say, but it’s now 3.6 million Oregonians against 331,000 PERS members. It’s us against them.”
Tags: Bankruptcy · PERS · University of Oregon
Eugene’s Gross Domestic Laughter Index is Rising
April 3rd, 2015 7 Comments
We deemed the local comedic workforce so talented that we gave the “funniest person” honor this year to two people instead of one.
Tags: Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce · Leigh Anne Jasheway · Lucy Glass · Zachary Fish
Ponderables
January 30th, 2015 8 Comments
Fifth Friday Footnotes, Follow-ups and Far-Flung Fripperies: • Now that EPUD General Manager Scott Coe has his job back, I have just one question. Does he get to keep the iPad? • EPUD is making available to the public all those hours of tape-recorded conversations. Here’s what will happen. After a quick hit of embarrassment, […]
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