The images of the skunk, official mascot of this year's Barter Fair, and the I-Ching hexagram "Gathering Together" adorn this year's official Barter Fair tie-dye t-shirt. You can get yours for just ten dollars when you get there. You may have to drive all the way from San Francisco just for the weekend, but it'll be worth it. Every crystal sucking, tree hugging, dirt worshipping earth muffin, white witch, Ashland yippie, and backwoods hippie in Southern Oregon will be there, and it'll be fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, fun You can camp with your old pow-wow pals. Their campsite is pretty full,...

Aw, a new puppy How sweet How precious and adorable How wrong Little Ozzy turns out to be the monster that destroys a family's peace and harmony. Or does he? The whole situation is so complex, and the run-up to the Dog War so fraught with complications, that it is completely unreasonable to conclude that it began with any one event - not even the arrival of Ozzy on that fateful day in April. It makes no sense to see the Dog War as an isolated episode, and once it really exploded, it stirred up a lot of old feelings and memories, recollections and resentments that perhaps would have been...

Aw, a new puppy How sweet How precious and adorable How wrong Little Ozzy turns out to be the monster that destroys a family's peace and harmony. Or does he? The whole situation is so complex, and the run-up to the Dog War so fraught with complications, that it is completely unreasonable to conclude that it began with any one event - not even the arrival of Ozzy on that fateful day in April. It makes no sense to see the Dog War as an isolated episode, and once it really exploded, it stirred up a lot of old feelings and memories, recollections and resentments that perhaps would have been...