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May 4 – In honor of Bike Month: “It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” – Ernest Hemingway

May 3 – A discussion about the shooting of Afghan citizens by a U.S. soldier led to some spilled drinks at the Lakers bar at 407 N. Second St. in Coeur d’Alene this spring.

The latest Coeur d’Alene Downtown Bar report has the story involving a cranky old fart and a lady friend: Officers cited a 70-year-old male for battery after an incident at the Lakers Inn in which the offender threw a shot of cinnamon whiskey in the face of the victim, a 53-year-old female.

Apparently the two had been chatting; however, the male had been continuously rude to the victim. The situation escalated when discussing whether Afghan civilians deserved being shot by U.S. soldiers – at which point, the female stated it was the stupidest thing she had ever heard.

The male, irritated by her comment, expressed his displeasure by tossing his drink in her face and then grabbing the female’s drink and tossing it into her face as well. The female did not require medical attention, and the male was cited for battery.

May 2 – What car was mocked in your circle?

When I was a teenager, one friend regularly drove his parents’ old Ford Falcon Futura.

It was a pretty nondescript car. Inoffensive, really. But we enjoyed acting as if it was an affront to all that was decent and well-designed.

“The Futura,” we would say with theatrical disdain. If that heap was a harbinger of the future, we would prefer to cling to the past. Or so we said.

Still, no one ever refused to ride somewhere in it when the other option was staying home.

May 2 – The Inland Northwest has seen its share of offbeat, low-budget political TV ads.

But it would be tough to top the campy folksiness of Texas railroad politics, where Railroad Commission candidate Roland Sledge has devised this rather memorable campaign theme: “Isn’t it about time we elected political leaders that have sense enough not to pee on electric fences?”