In the nightclub I did a double take as it appeared Chuck was having a conversation with Anthony Weiner in a guest appearance. Calmed down and realized that it was actor Ben Shenkman.

Doesn't Joan's comment about her ability "to know what someone else will want before they know they want it" sound familiar? Isn't it a paraphrase of Steve Jobs' marketing theory in the mid-2000s for Apple? Of course, every business master of the universe wants to appear prescient, so it's an old idea.

Wow, is he giving them a knock for killing a lot of bison while we Manifest Destiny folks pretty much wiped out all the bison in about forty years?

Wow, is he giving them a knock for killing a lot of bison while we Manifest Destiny folks pretty much wiped out all the bison in about forty years?

Nah, not proto-hippie so much as proto-cultist - a parallel thread in
the 60's youth culture. See Mel Lyman and, of course, Sexy Sadie.

Nah, not proto-hippie so much as proto-cultist - a parallel thread in
the 60's youth culture. See Mel Lyman and, of course, Sexy Sadie.

PDX'rs get the bonus feature of looking for familiarity, so in theory I should feel better overall, but where the bits are going is getting predictable. Too often I'm saying to myself, "well, that's clever" and smiling rather than just laughing.

What we immigrant Americans wanted WAS the territory - all of it. Of course, a Final Solution to the Indian Problem provided the means to that territory.