Correct me if I'm wrong

Churchill should be remembered for his leadership in W.W.2. However, his actions while Secretary of the Navy in W.W.1 were despicable. It was his idea to send thousands of troops into Gallipoli in the Crimea, many of them New Zealanders and they were slaughtered. As a result New Zealand lost more personnel than any other country per capita. You don't see other countries naming their streets Churchill.

Let's see, Scott. I guess you must be from Scotland, except someone in their wisdom added another "t" so you would be different. That must have been during the popular phase of that name, so you might be in your forties, or so. Then there is "Carlson." That would be derived from Carl's son" in Norway or perhaps Sweden. Are you Carl's son? Maybe, maybe not. It's really important to understand a name, isn't it?

Jean, not only do many countries name streets after Winston Churchill, they even name cities after him, like Churchill, Australia.

Scott St.

This pint-sized fragment of the Florence/Gilman/South Court dot-dash string of streets bears consideration. Given its dimunitive size--I've seen longer driveways in this town--the CORRECT thing is to simply erase its name and save the cost of signage. I'm sure neither its inhabitants nor Mr. Carlson will mind the anonymity.

I think streets should be named after numbers, letters of the alphabet or inanimate objects.

42nd Street? Sure. B Street? Okay. How about naming streets after food? Pineapple Way? Durian Road (where the sewage treatment plant is located). Farro Drive.

As for renaming the city, I suggest "Shallow Alto," a moniker already used by some.

:-P

I believe Churchill Road (or Street or whatever it is) is named for the poet Charles Churchill. All the streets in this area are named for poets and this is why this area is sometimes called poets corner. Coleridge, Tennyson, Churchill, etc. all poets. Another area is named after colleges, Cambridge, Stanford, etc.

Is what most think the moniker used by some is.

Trigger warning:

This comment should not be read by people who object to trigger warnings.

I have no choice but to leave this comment, since I'm under attack here.

I hold the "Weekly" and Mr. Carlson responsible, for not providing a trigger warning to precede his guest opinion.

I started reading and I just kept reading until by then it was too late.

Clearly, Mr. Carlson's piece is aimed at those of us who, at great risk to ourselves, have raised objections to public buildings or streets or other edifices named after the likes of David Starr Jordan or Junipero Serra.

I feel mocked by Mr. Carlson. I feel made fun of and marginalized. Most of all I feel blindsided, in that I was given no warning that he was about to do these things to me.

When my wife, Mathilda, on the other hand, is about to marginalize me, she says, "Frank, sit down for a moment, we need to talk."

Thus I stand warned that she is about to tell me how little I do to make her life a fulfilling one, how I fail to anticipate her needs, how I invited Barney over the other night to have a beer without giving her a trigger warning that a big, loud neighbor was about to drop by for the evening and take up a lot of space in the TV room, thus marginalizing her and causing her to go into the kitchen and read "The Poisoner's Handbook."

Thus I am alerted by my wife in advance (as Mr. Collins and the "Weekly" failed to do) that, having sat down and adjusted my face into a listening attitude, if during the ensuing scolding I reply by comparing her to anyone at all it had better not be Donald Trump, because Mathilda's hair is not nearly the disaster that his is.

(In focusing on Mathilda's hair, here, I realize I'm going to alienate the fairer sex out there--I mean, in touching upon on Mathilda's outward appearance rather than her more intrinsic qualities of character (meanness, spitefulness, rudeness); but if so, all I ask is that all the good and fine feminists out there just give me a basic, solid trigger-warning before they drive up with their baseball bats.

In sum, since Homer Street is named after Homer, and Alma after Mahler's wife (who was unfaithful to him, but I'd never mention that here), and Trump Tower and Trump Steaks and Trump Water are all named after you know who, well, what I'm going to do is just propose a moratorium on any of us putting our names on anything, because it's just bound to lead to arguments and confusions, and so (trigger warning) I'm not signing my name here.

Sincerely,

Nobody You'd Care to Know

P.S. Thank you, Mr. Carlson. :-)

P.P.S. Frank is not my real name. I've told Mathilda that many times.

Why not name streets "Rhino"and "Elephant" and "sustainable breathable atmosphere" and all the other things that will be gone if we humans don't stop being so complacent.

You're wrong about Oregon Expressway -- it doesn't end at the King's Road. It ends at the railroad tracks. The road west of the tracks is Page Mill Road. That's why the businesses along there have Page Mill Road addresses.

Not that it's going to slow the Ducks down. They'll just fly over the stopped traffic in what is a royal traffic jam.

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. Thank you!

BRAVO!
Let's hear it for the author and for anonymous 'Frank'.
What wonderful writing - perhaps the best I have seen in the Weekly.
BRAVO, I say!

I think "Frank" should start writing professionally!

I'm impressed that this hard hitting satire of the effort to rename Jordan Middle School is coming out only 6 months or so since the effort started. This kind of incisive hilarity could not have been easy.