By Ken Johnson Community college helps to bridge the chasm between the American dream and the American reality. The United States, more than most other countries, prescribes a narrative over the lives of its citizens: grade school, university, career, retirement, and then an uncomfortable death at an unfamiliar hospital, doped…
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L’Editor: Matthew Whitaker: tall tales of toilets and time travel
By Ken Johnson Matthew Whitaker is the acting U.S. attorney general. He is a criminal, equal parts boner-pill hawker and H. H. Holmes. His antics are entertaining and stupid, but fundamentally Midwest horrible, like Chick-fil-A pumping legions of children to obesity. He is the personification of the land of all-American…
L’Editor: Climate Change: Endgame
By Ken Johnson I want to point out something that might not be obvious: Climate change is going to screw up the world — irreparably. There are three, not four, horsemen of the apocalypse: climate change, immigration, and nationalism. These harbingers of the end times are compounding each other, building…
L’Editor: The U.S. Supreme Court is jammed with villains
By Ken Johnson The Supreme Court is supposed to be the Super Friends: wise, fair, and moral. That’s the impression my American Government class left with me. The executive branch might be brutal. The legislative branch might be corrupt. But not the judicial branch, not the Supreme Court, they weather…
Bellingham gets an arcade upgrade
By Ken Johnson Over the past year, three gaming lounges have sprung up around downtown Bellingham, which is a little weird, because “gaming lounges” didn’t seem to exist five years ago. College towns are magnets for odd business ideas. Some of these ideas, like Hops N Headz, a taproom with…
Another Ski to Sea in the books
By Ken Johnson Ski to Sea happened May 27, engulfing Bellingham in a festive and intense atmosphere. The Ski to Sea race has seven different events: cross country skiing, downhill skiing or snowboarding, running, road biking, canoeing, cyclocross biking and sea kayaking. There is a method to this athletic madness;…