Editorial

It's October and that means Stop Sign season is over in rural America. We are officially in the brief window where rifle hunters cease their age-old assault on traffic signs and train their rifles on real live animals.
But hunters won't be the only ones throwing out decoys.
The Oregon State Police said that it will be back in the field over the coming weeks with a decoy designed to trap law breaking hunters.

It's been said that you can get anything on eBay - though Upfront's experience is limited to an old pair of rollerblades and an outdated bike shock. But a quick survey on the online auction site revealed listings this week for a private jet ($525,000), a signed Andy Warhol screenprint ($22,000) and a men's fitness book written by OJ Simpson ($2).

Marcel Marceau, the world's most famous mime, died last weekend in Paris at the age of 84. Let us observe a moment of silence.

Former porn mega-star Jenna Jameson got a guided tour of the U.S. Capitol last Thursday. The Capitol police were impressed, asking for autographs and posing for pictures. But Sen. Arlen Specter seemed not especially amused.

a new meaning to open container.If there's one thing better than beer, it's a whole lotta beer.
 

We’re not gonna take it. The ladies from CodePink, the national anti-war group that has been needling our elected representatives to get America out of Iraq, are stirring up trouble again. Local CodePink representatives and their supporters are planning a vigil outside the offices of Senators Ron Wyden and Gordon Smith and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden.
 

If you really love your car - we mean really, really, REALLY love your car - shouldn't you buy it its own condo?

Seriously. Two guys in Sisters are building a 36-unit condo complex exclusively for pampered vintage, classic or otherwise special automobiles.

We all live in an acorn Submarine.On Sept. 7, 1776, a strange, egg-shaped craft slipped into the waters of New York harbor. With a crew of one - Army Sgt. Ezra Lee - its mission was to blow up the HMS Eagle, one of the British ships blockading the city.