California epithets

There's a big controversy over something that actor Isaiah Washington said during production of "Grey's Anatomy," of which he is one of the stars. Evidently, it had something to do with the sexual orientation of one of his fellow actors. I don't, however, know what the word was.

Because amazingly, in a world in which the filthiest language imaginable is used routinely on television, when a word gets written down it becomes too hot to handle. So this is now referred to as an "epithet." Which one, we don't know because no one will print it. It's unfit.

Out here on the Oregon Coast, we look carefully at people who seem to be moving in and if they don't meet out standards, we say, "Not from Oregon, are you? You from California?" And we siddle slowly across the street. We say that such people are Californicating our beautiful state. I think it's healthier. Californians! There I said it. I feel better.