Ice Ages: A boy and his dad go ice fishing
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Regarding the many forms of fishing, I’ve already made clear my lack of real success or skill. Still, it’s an activity I enjoy. The other …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Regarding the many forms of fishing, I’ve already made clear my lack of real success or skill. Still, it’s an activity I enjoy. The other …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Sometimes it seems there’s little left for humankind to discover other than ever-more inventive ways to mess things up. So it is especially satisfying to …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
For years, Luke Malek’s name has circulated among Idaho politicos as one to watch. A 2004 graduate of the College of Idaho, he served as …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Evil is no doubt the predominant preoccupation of humankind — if it wasn’t, we’d have no need for its supposed equal and opposite. There’d be …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
In a previous life I was a newly married 27-year-old — with no kids — living in a gorgeous brick-and-hardwood apartment on Ninth Street in …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Joseph R. Biden Jr. took the oath of office Jan. 20 as the 46th president of the United States, swearing to “preserve, protect and defend …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Over the past 30 or so years I’ve been playing music — which began with recording fart sounds on my Casio SK1 — I seem …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Unpopular opinion: I’m not a super big fan of most of what we eat during the holidays. I like turkey and all the trimmings, but …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
According to Business Insider, there are 11 common traits of highly intelligent people: they’re adaptable, they understand how much they don’t know, they are …
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Movies about movies being written by writers — much less writing a review of such a movie — risks plunging viewers and readers alike into …
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