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MM: Paper Better Than Computer On Pot

Moscow Minidoka: I do my best reading in the bathroom. I don't want to do it on a computer. My wife does the crossword in bed before we go to sleep. She *also* has no desire to do puzzles on a machine when she could be nestled in bed. Some folks seem to be very reductionist in their evaluation of a newspaper as a simple news source… to MANY of us, it is far more than the information, it is the organic experience. Let me put this another, albeit somewhat crude way: Would you prefer to have intercourse with a machine or a human if the end result (a climax) was the same? I'll take the human, thank you very much, and I'll take the newspaper with my morning constitutional, not my computer.

Question: In the '80s, there was a businessman in town who said he liked to read print Huckleberries while sitting on a toilet b/c he said my writing proved to be a good laxative. None of you have ever read print Huckleberries on the pot, right? Right?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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