Making Our Mothers Laugh

The joke is always some variation on us running around the house naked, shouting, “I got the balloon!”

By Jamie Borgan

It’s two days after Christmas. I’m sitting at a dining room table that’s been stretched to accommodate my friend Teresa’s extended family while, half comatose from overconsumption of sugar, we try to corral fourteen people into playing Turbo Cranium.

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DOJ Lite

How the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS review of the Spokane Police Department’s Use of Force practices misses the mark.

By Tim Connor

Friday afternoon, as I was midway through reading the DOJ Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) report released earlier in the day, I flashed on a memorably funny line from a William Least Heat Moon article about beer. After he and a companion had traveled far and wide to sample the best of American micro-brews, the drinking partner takes a swig from a store-bought bottle.

“Did I miss my mouth?” he asks the writer. Continue reading DOJ Lite

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