Don Kahle
老夫子传媒 Journal ContributorDon Kahle is a Friday columnist for The Register-Guard as well as a contributor to the 老夫子传媒 Journal. He's lived in Eugene now long enough that people have stopped asking him when he's going to leave. For ten years he published the Comic News and is now executive director for the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects and the owner of a small advertising agency called !AH !HA Design. He's a failed introvert and the father of two, as far as he knows. He鈥檚 a dog person.
Don resembles the Queen of England in three ways. Corgis are his favorite pets. He honestly can鈥檛 believe his good fortune, getting away with as much as he does each and every day. And he鈥檚 not uncomfortable referring to himself in the third person.
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You may not know about Brittney Griner or her stardom in the WNBA. You may not care that Russian airport guards caught her with a cannabis vape cartridge in her luggage. You may not believe that a basketball player with a medical marijuana prescription is worth a convicted arms dealer in a contemplated prisoner swap.
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Anyone paying attention to politics lately has noticed that small changes barely seem worth the trouble anymore. Congress can鈥檛 be bothered to make laws.鈥
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Spotlight won this year鈥檚 Academy Award for Best Picture, but the story portrayed is slipping slowly into the fiction category. The sort of investigative鈥
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They say self-driving cars are coming. I say they鈥檙e here. I rented a car last week that didn鈥檛 leave very much of the driving to me.My own car is 20鈥
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I barely recognized her, but nursing homes are helpful in this way. The placard by her door read 鈥淢rs. Patricia Elmen,鈥 so I knew this was my favorite鈥
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I have a new nearby option for Vietnamese food. I can walk to a corner parking lot and order my pho from Tam鈥檚 Place. But it鈥檚 not a place, at least not鈥
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The word didn鈥檛 come up until the last five minutes of a two-hour conversation. Eugene social psychology researcher Paul Slovic isn鈥檛 a fan of the鈥
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I think we can all agree that salad forks have not fulfilled their promise. It was a noble experiment, if by that you mean something tried by nobility or鈥
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I love living in a college town. Ever since Socrates first got away with it, educators have learned they can ask questions for a living. It must be an鈥
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Except for casserole recipes, I don鈥檛 often look to the editors of Parade Magazine for inspiration. I thumb through it most Sundays as quickly as I can. I鈥
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My friend Bill asked me to come to Klamath Falls to help him out. I asked twice what sort of help he needed. He wouldn鈥檛 tell me, except to say, 鈥淏ring鈥