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Shoveling Partisanship

January 23rd, 2016 No Comments

As the area digs out of Snowzilla in 2016, we might compare how political philosophies may be expressed in how people shovel their snow.

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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.

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Frip Away the Summer Heat

July 31st, 2015 4 Comments

We should have suspected something when every website’s response button was labeled “submit.”

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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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