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Doug Clark

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News >  Spokane

Clark: Thanksgiving recipes reflect modern times

(Deep movie-announcer voice.) In a world where Thanksgiving comes every year, there is one man who knows more about stuffing than Kim Kardashian’s corset maker. Welcome, holiday lovers, to the fifth annual episode of Ask Professor Pilgrim.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Security at airports is not a pretty picture

Like many body-conscious Americans, I’ve been worrying all week about how much to put out next time I’m at the airport. Do I go through the new Mr. Peeper’s Magic X-Ray Scanner so that Transportation Security Administration snoops can laugh at my flabby naked acreage?
News >  Spokane

Clark: Rage against the dying of the light

Today’s the day when we all crawl out of bed and realize that we forgot to set our clocks back an hour. But this year I have a suggestion. Take a notebook with you while you’re scuttling about trying to remember where all the flipping clocks are.
News >  Spokane

Clark: Parties get wild, wilted Election Day

Doug’s Election Night Diary. 7:40 – I drive first to Spokane’s Lincoln Center where the Democrats are hanging out. If the early returns hold up, it looks like their evening is about to become an inflamed hemorrhoid of Biblical proportion. So I want to hit and run before someone wises up and yells, “Let’s string up the wiseacre columnist!”
News >  Spokane

Clark: Debate ends with Texas up 3 games

DOUG’S 5th DISTRICT DEBATE DIARY: Tuesday, 6:59 p.m. – Here I am, flopped on the couch in front of my big Sony HD flat screen. The off again/on again drama between U.S. Rep. Cathy “Big Mama” McMorris Rodgers and her Democrat opponent, Daryl “Raindrops” Romeyn, is over. The candidates finally stopped making up stories about their imaginary scheduling commitments and are about to square off for a televised debate.
News >  Spokane

Clark: A frighteningly good time at the center of universe

We’ve reached that time of year when we all start getting our fright on. And it seems like this Halloween season is offering more scares than ever to choose from. I’m talking terrors like Scarywood at Silverwood, the Amaizing Corn Maze, the Rossi/Murray debates …
News >  Spokane

Clark: After emission test ordeal, winter’ll be a breeze

In an effort to help fix Washington’s budget mess I have purchased yet another old clunker. Helping the state wasn’t my intent, of course. It only turned out that way after my 1990 Lincoln Town Car flunked the state’s Emission Exam Scam worse than a public school kid taking the WASL.