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Slice Turner’s column

I’ve been perusing The Spokesman-Review for a number of years now, and I have a question: Is Paul Turner related to someone in the Cowles family? Because I can’t think of another reason why a column as vacant and witless as The Slice even makes it into a legitimate newspaper.

I read the column from time to time, wondering if there will ever be something of substance in it, and there never is. To quote an old saying, “There’s no there there.” Each Slice question is as insipid as the next, and there is rarely anything in the column worth remembering 10 seconds after you’ve read it.

The recent “Fun with Phlegm” piece, for example, was memorable only because it was so appalling and dopey and not even decent middle-school writing. Really, you don’t have anything better to do with the space?

Joseph P. O’Shaughnessy

Spokane

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