By David Anderson, Tillicum Due to technical difficulties the show (and that’s all it was) entitled ‘Election for Purposes of Representation’ has been pre-empted to the program currently in progress: ‘The Golden Gate Bridge (Lakewood’s, not San Francisco’s) into Camp Murray’.
Letter: Penn St. Football gets kicked wide of the uprights
By David Anderson, Tillicum “We all have to remember that we can’t let our love of the games get ahead of the core values, and we know that happens often. This is a painful, painful reminder that awful things can happen when that occurs. Football will never again be placed ahead of educating, nurturing and protecting […]
Letter: Twitter can lead to twuble
By David Anderson, Tillicum Elmer J. Fudd, one of the most famous Looney Tunes cartoon characters, aimed – quite poorly – to hunt down Bugs Bunny but usually ended up seriously injuring himself and others. Fortunately Chuck Jones, creator of the fictional-Fudd, had the ability to enable the fumbling fellow and friends to be back to […]
Letter: Graphic material
By David Anderson, Tillicum The following article contains graphic material although ironically enough it concerns back-to-school supplies for children. Your local Office Depot (OD) now not only offers notebooks and color crayons, but also bravery and courage. Here’s an excerpt from their ad:
Letter: Which is wrong?
By David Anderson, Tillicum Which of the following is wrong? Becoming careless in the production of a water-retention-reducing drug such that rodent poison finds its way into the production line – a line run at breakneck speeds, pharmacists required to fill 30 prescriptions per hour, more than 2.5 times the accepted standard, the company repeatedly […]
Letter: No longer needed
By David Anderson, Tillicum “America is in decline.” That’s the “sobering and pessimistic account of the country’s status in the world today” – the assessment of Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book “Strategic Vision” as reviewed by Harold Evans. It’s less a matter of products not being made in America so much as America mattering less in […]
Letter: When not to take a stand
By David Anderson Here on American Lake we don’t row in the wind, at least we don’t if we don’t have to. And we don’t spit into the wind. But if we did – spit or row – it’s better to do both downwind.
Letter: Monkey Morality
By David Anderson, Tillicum With regards the same-sex marriage (SSM) matter (I almost said debate) – in addition to the opinions expressed that are more often than not interspersed with name-calling – we’ve witnessed flash-mob street dancing, Obama-boy-rainbow-colored-presidential-crush-infatuating and other antics attractive to some, antagonizing to others with a whole lot more of the same anticipated between now and […]
Westside Story – Is it a Chrysler Airflow?
By Joe Boyle Do you remember my article posted on May 23, 2012 titled, 1935 Chrysler Airflow? Shortly after the article and photos were presented in The Suburban Times, one of my Starbucks pals, Scott Chandler, approached me and with a slight smile on his face bellowed out, “I have a fight to pick with […]