Take or leave advice
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you, Bridger Barnett, for damning me with faint praise in your latest letter (Tribune, Dec. 29).
Of course, your response to my letter about people making their budget stretch by cooking rather than buying all pre-prepared food misses the mark completely because your fevered brain only came up with the image of my wife and I gnawing on a ham bone, which I never said and we never did. We ate the ham, and when it was not feasible to cut more off the bone, she made split pea and ham soup, which made it pretty economical.
The point of the letter was to encourage people to work at their food situation by cooking and economizing, instead of buying pre-prepared food. Take it or leave it. That is the advice.
By the way since Ol’ Bridger is so obsessed with yaks, I wrote a letter to the Tribune telling him that, while I was blasting through the Colorado backcountry after my niece’s wedding, I came across a ranch clear in the middle of nowhere, which sells yak meat. The Tribune apparently did not print that letter, so here it is again. The yak meat is sold by Pettee Ranch in Fairplay, Colo. Enjoy.
Danny Radakovich
Lewiston
‘Delay, deny, depose’
“Delay, deny, depose” can be said in the latest saga regarding Richard Eggleston’s journey through our legal system.
This all started when Eggleston, a doctor in ophthalmology, spewed misinformation regarding COVID-19 in a column in the Lewiston Tribune’s Opinion section. The Washington Medical Commission was prosecuting Eggleston for this when the Washington Court of Appeals stayed the prosecution (delay).
Eggleston believes he has a free speech right to give misinformation and the public has a right to hear it (deny).
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is co-counsel in this case, the vaccine-denier and someone who partakes in the consumption of roadkill. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who is bought and paid for by Republican billionaire Harlan Crow, accepted Eggleston’s application for a stay. A conference to address the application has been scheduled (depose).
This only shows that the wealthy and well-connected are above the law. The Lewiston Tribune also bears some responsibility for giving Eggleston a platform to belch out his misinformation.
Richard Hayward
Clarkston
