Lunch Special (5/27/04)

For the Lunch Special today ... I'm offering turtle soup, as in terrapin soup, by way of Patmos, Idaho, and several other Northwest stops, including Seattle and Alaska. That description, of course, fits only one person in these parts -- my old colleague David Bond, over in the Silver Valley. On a good day, D.P. Bond can rant with the best of them. He and I go way back to the '70s, when he was news editor of the Press and I was managing Duane Hagadone's sister paper in Kalispell, Mont.: The Daily Inter Lake. Some called it "the daily mistake," but that's another story for another day. In the past, D.P. has cast himself for column purposes as a Terrapin and an exile on the mythical river island of Patmos a la Apostle John. No one can make EPA bureaucRATs see redder. You can find his latest column, the Wallace Street Journal, which he writes for The Silver Valley Mining Journal here.