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Heh - the place on N Polk, I remember that. My wife's brother roomed with you there a while in his Skookum days, and used to bring his dirty laundry to my place (I remember having to throw away a washing machine because I couldn't get the mud & soot out of it's innards, and it would no longer wash anything that was white). Is that Skookum guy still in business?

I dunno about Uncle Fuzzy, but I thought Wendy Ray retired. They held out at that station a long time, still playing music after the other "big" AM station went to all talk, then they got the Ducks' contract and hired Jerry Allen as morning personality and program director. That pretty much ended the deal for the old school programming. But in thier all talk format they tried to stay with all local talent and tended to lean a bit to the left of what AM talk listeners wanted (surprising since Brian Obie still owned most of it at the time). The sale to Cumulus brought in some good national shows, Medved and Savage probably got them the best ratings they ever had outside of a Ducks football broadcast.

But as has been discussed here, they bowed to the pressure from a movement about various campii to silence Savage, and replaced him with this local guy who claims to be libertarian, but comes off to me as only slightly less authoritarian than Lars. But I haven't heard much of the guy, I swore off the station - including the Ducks broadcasts - when they dumped Savage, so I may not totally understand the Carlin guy.

But not to get totally off to FReeper Island, if I were in the market for a new car, I'd take a look at one of those hybrids. Most of my cars (I presently have but four) are at the economy end of the scale, but I think my Suburban cancels out the other three. Hopefully by the time I'm ready to dive into the market, they'll be making them a bit less ugly looking.