Editors Desk http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk/ MidWeek http://www.midweek.com/images/elements/midweek_feedburner_logo.gif http://www.midweek.com 144 37 MidWeek.com Don Chapman is the editor of MidWeek and MidWeek the weekend en Don Chapman 2008-03-26T10:00:00-10:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. Introducing An Unusual’Cartoon’ http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/258252460/ Don Chapman Turn this page and you’ll find the newest MidWeek feature: Don Asmussen’s Bad Reporter. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman Turn this page and you’ll find the newest MidWeek feature: Don Asmussen’s Bad Reporter.

]]> 2008-03-26T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/introducing_an_unusualcartoon/ So How Do You Want To Be Dead? http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/246064245/ Don Chapman My kids have probably received better Christmas presents than the one I gave them a couple of months ago - a funeral plan for their dear old Dad. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman My kids have probably received better Christmas presents than the one I gave them a couple of months ago - a funeral plan for their dear old Dad.

]]> 2008-03-05T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/so_how_do_you_want_to_be_dead/ Bring Back The Rainbows http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/217557212/ Don Chapman Good luck to June Jones, and thanks a ton for the season that none of us who lived through it will ever forget, but ... EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman Good luck to June Jones, and thanks a ton for the season that none of us who lived through it will ever forget, but ...

]]> 2008-01-16T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/bring_back_the_rainbows/ A Drunken Idiot, Taxes, Evel, Sevey http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/199126173/ Don Chapman Why some people should not be allowed to drink (because you cannot handle, brah, you cannot handle): At the big UH-Boise State football game, a young professional guy I know was leaning on the lower-level railing of one of the bridges connecting stadium sections, watching the halftime show with half a dozen buddies, when moisture began to fall.  EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman Why some people should not be allowed to drink (because you cannot handle, brah, you cannot handle): At the big UH-Boise State football game, a young professional guy I know was leaning on the lower-level railing of one of the bridges connecting stadium sections, watching the halftime show with half a dozen buddies, when moisture began to fall. 

]]> 2007-12-12T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/a_drunken_idiot_taxes_evel_sevey/ Richard Pryor: Not So Crazy After All http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/184584728/ Don Chapman The whole N-word thing that’s gotten my cousin the Dog into so much trouble should have been settled 30 years ago. Don Chapman The whole N-word thing that’s gotten my cousin the Dog into so much trouble should have been settled 30 years ago.

]]> 2007-11-14T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/richard_pryor_not_so_crazy_after_all/ Kauai Invaders Sweep Across Oahu http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/181058277/ Don Chapman My next-door neighbors in Kaneohe hosted an extended Kauai family over a recent weekend. I thought about throwing rocks at them, pounding on their two rental cars and screaming that their mere presence defiled my island, not to mention my street, but had more important things to do - like cleaning my fish tank. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman My next-door neighbors in Kaneohe hosted an extended Kauai family over a recent weekend.

I thought about throwing rocks at them, pounding on their two rental cars and screaming that their mere presence defiled my island, not to mention my street, but had more important things to do - like cleaning my fish tank.

]]> 2007-11-07T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/kauai_invaders_sweep_across_oahu/ Keeping It Green At MidWeek http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/177643537/ Don Chapman MidWeek reader Adam Kahualulani Mick e-mailed me with a good question. A gardener, he wanted to use old issues as mulch in his vegetable garden, but was worried that MidWeek might be printed with a petroleum-based ink. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman MidWeek reader Adam Kahualulani Mick e-mailed me with a good question. A gardener, he wanted to use old issues as mulch in his vegetable garden, but was worried that MidWeek might be printed with a petroleum-based ink.

]]> 2007-10-31T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/keeping_it_green_at_midweek/ Welcoming The Hopi Medicine Man http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/164675038/ Don Chapman You may recall a column I wrote in May about visiting the Hopi reservation in Arizona with my just-graduated daughter Dawn, and spending time with the Hopi medicine man Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma, who’d predicted 9/11 five years before it happened. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman You may recall a column I wrote in May about visiting the Hopi reservation in Arizona with my just-graduated daughter Dawn, and spending time with the Hopi medicine man Grandfather Martin Gashweseoma, who’d predicted 9/11 five years before it happened.

]]> 2007-10-03T10:00:00-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/welcoming_the_hopi_medicine_man/ A Note, Li’ Dat, To Kauai Protestors http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/152463697/ Don Chapman Here’s what Braddah Bash (as in Cala-) has to say to residents of Kauai who protested the arrival of the Superferry: Mahalo for da aloha, li’ dat, when us Oahu guys try come Kauai on da Supahferry. EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman Here’s what Braddah Bash (as in Cala-) has to say to residents of Kauai who protested the arrival of the Superferry:

Mahalo for da aloha, li’ dat, when us Oahu guys try come Kauai on da Supahferry.

]]> 2007-09-05T10:00:01-10:00 http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/editorsdesk_article/a_note_li_dat_to_kauai_protestors/ A Tough Way To Make $575 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/EditorsDesk/~3/149592191/ Don Chapman There’s gotta be an easier way to make $575: Did you see that the copper wiring stolen from the Campbell High football stadium, and later recovered, was valued at a whopping $575? Let’s see, you do something that could get you arrested, not to mention cause your death either by falling from a pole or by electrocution, for $575? Sounds like a heckuva job description to me ... EDITORS DESKColumn Don Chapman There’s gotta be an easier way to make $575: Did you see that the copper wiring stolen from the Campbell High football stadium, and later recovered, was valued at a whopping $575? Let’s see, you do something that could get you arrested, not to mention cause your death either by falling from a pole or by electrocution, for $575? Sounds like a heckuva job description to me ...

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