Good morning Netizens...Are you feeling globally warmed this morning? This is the first day of many, we hope, where the night time temperature stayed above freezing, and the garden gnomes did not have that expensive infernal electric heater running all night, huddling together out by…
Good evening, Netizens...As softly as the sound of the door to the Virtual Ballroom at Community Comment softly closing to ward off the evening chill, we held a semi-Gathering this afternoon, consisting of a few friends and I, and it was wonderful. There will be…
Good morning, Netizens...First a word from two of my personal heroes of old, Bill Steele and Pete Seeger:Some say you are really old if you can remember either of these two. Garbage (garbage, garbage, garbage) Garbage!We're filling up the sea with garbage (garbage. . .)…
Good morning, Netizens...The following is a document authored by the Reverend Howard Bess, a retired Baptist minister, that reviews some of the misconceptions we may have about African-American Theology, and has been used with permission of its author.It is, at the very least, very thought-provoking…
Good morning, Netizens...Here we have your typical rush hour...In Belarusia near Minsk. They get recyclable material out of the back end of that convertible, you know. Here is your Wild Card.--Dave
Good evening, Netizens...After a hectic day and a restful evening with the Prom Queen watching a bit of television, I am finally once more in the Great Chair and as a late friend, John Kitkoski, was once fond of stating, I should be about the…
Good morning, everyone...In addition to the loss of her step-mother yesterday, Jeanie announced to me this morning yesterday was her birthday, so everyone send her a virtual birthday card on her 29th birthday, if you please. Do you see what you can do in the…
Good morning, Netizens...My God, when I first saw this picture last night in the Associated Press I simply knew I could not resist. Normally each morning, I spend an inordinate amount of time going through the various news agencies looking for a story (and a…
Good evening, Netizens...I'm going to tiptoe into perhaps what might be considered dangerous territory this evening. I have been closely following the case involving Todd Chism, a Spokane EMT who once stood accused of purchasing and possessing child pornography. On January 29th, 2008, the Washington…
Good afternoon Netizens...It's a quiet Monday afternoon, for a change; nothing broken causing me to work, and thus I have been reading in the ballroom for most of the afternoon. Thanks to my friend Michael who supplies Community Comment with its virtual beans that defy,…
Good morning, Netizens...Last week Casey King wrote: Be the sexuality in question homo or hetero or xeno in nature, it is my considered opinion that we are sexualizing our children far to early and that we are damaging them in doing so. In a day…
Good evening, Netizens...I am just now hearing of a 4.7 earthquake that hit Reno, Nevada last night at 11:40 PM, damaging houses near the epicenter, tossing things off store shelves, and severely damaging a wastewater flume. What makes this quake so interesting to seismologists is…
Good morning, Netizens...Who are the women all dressed in purple and wearing those outrageous red hats? Why, it is the fifth annual Red Hat Society luncheon held in Whitesboro, N.Y. yesterday. (Picture courtesy of AP) In the above picture, Marcia Osvoldik laughs with fellow Red…
Good morning, Netizens...Most teenagers I have witnessed are a bunch of chatterboxes, constantly talking about their hectic social lives, the latest trends or the unfortunate minority discussing continuing education once they survive High School. Teens these days typically have lots to say, although sometimes it…
Two years ago my mother passed away after being ill for just two weeks. As I come up to the anniversary of her death, my thoughts of her are still fragmented. I don't think this is an average every day thought – I don't think…
Good morning, Netizens...The Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., senior pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, will discuss the role of faith in the public square in a presentation entitled, The African American Religious Experience; Theology & Practice, at a National…
Friendship is such a powerful thing. Do you ever think about it? Do you think about who your best friend is? Do you have one main special friend or several?
Good morning, Netizens...Today is Earth Day. That statement by itself in society's highly polarized area of social commentary may either bring out the folks from Greenpeace or merit, at most, a polite yawn from others, but either way, most folks will have an opinion about…
Good morning, everyone...I am going to open this version of “Our Police Our Selves” by citing a excerpt from a book:On Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs(From the book, On Combat, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman) "Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age.…
Good morning, everyone...For most of my life I have always had a dog of one kind or another. For many years, I favored Shar Pei (AKA wrinkle) dogs, and then I discovered the marvelous character of Akitas and until I moved to the city, I…
Good morning, Netizens...Joseph Edward Duncan III has already pleaded guilty to various violent crimes, including kidnapping Dylan and Shasta Groene, molesting them both and killing Dylan in a remote Montana campground. He has left a vile trail of innocent victims behind him, and now has…
Good morning, everyone...I'm putting on my thinking cap this morning.Gary Graham asks in his News Diary Blog, “What is Journalism”? I have found, over the years, that in any discussion of journalism, you are likely to receive nearly as many answers as you have journalists,…
Good afternoon, Netizens...Thanks to ya'll we're still hovering there, at #9 in the Top Ten Blogs at the Spokesman-Review based on page hits. Ya'll keep talking while I take a quick powder here and go buy some pills. Be back soon.--Dave
Good morning, Netizens...Okay, this question has been asked before, and I'm certain it will be asked again, but how do you define the right to privacy?Case in point:WASHINGTON - The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement…
Good morning, Netizens...Come in, come in, have a seat at the Community Comment virtual coffee shop. This morning in our virtual menu we have homemade flapjacks, homemade sausages, eggs from ecstatically-happy hens, pan-fried potatoes and sweet muffins for all. Oh, yes, and even the robin…
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