The Slice ‘Short Hikes’ Don’t Involve Ice Axes
Life around here would be so much more congenial if we could all somehow come to an agreement about precisely what is meant by the phrase “short hike.”
Slice answer: What percent of the Inland Northwest’s population looks good in T-shirts? “One hundred percent,” said Skip Grammar. “When they’re worn with pride.”
So much for the Matterhorn: WSU student Kara McClelland was at Disneyland over spring break. And during lunch one day, she overheard a family conversation nearby. A boy who was about 10 asked his preschool-age little sister to name her favorite ride. “Daddy,” she said.
One reason to encourage diversity: In the long run, it’s the only real way to make this area less desirable to those considering moving here expressly because Spokane and North Idaho are so white.
And we’ll all be better off if those diversity-fearing folks head to Vermont instead.
Wouldn’t it be great: If certain local radio “personalities” could donate portions of their egos to children who lack self-esteem.
Sometimes things in the Swell Paper make you wonder: Would you rather be called a “street thinker” or be nicknamed “Maggot”?
Best bears and bunnies: Children’s author Rosemary Wells is a genius.
Clean-up detail: A reader requested that we ask runners to leave their wacky obscene-word T-shirts at home this Bloomsday.
Well, there’s one problem. Those half-wits don’t read the newspaper.
Technology isn’t always the answer: We saw an opinion piece in the Washington Post in which the V-chip was referred to as the “Chip of fools.” And we agree. There’s no substitute for involved parenting.
It’s not fashionable to say this: Everybody supposedly yearns for somber, thoughtful discourse and all. But we might actually watch KSPSTV’s “Spokane This Week” if it featured ranting and finger-pointing.
Today’s Slice question: What’s your best (worst?) “I cut myself shaving” story? One reader will win a gift basket of women’s shaving supplies. We need faxed or dropped-off answers by 6 p.m. today.
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