Dang! Sixty, That’s just really old.

Thoughts on this Friday before Black Friday (uh-oh, here comes that Steely Dan earworm!)?

Here you go, and remember that profane acronyms are a deal breaker, FWIW.

Enjoy the sunshine while … oops!. There it goes.

Bring on the commentary!

Is today gonna be a good day? I gotta feelin. (make sure you watch at least a minute)

What’s on your mind?

I’ll be a one-armed paper hanger for the next two weeks. So it’s up to you to keep these discussions moving. Not that you ever need my help.

So, what’s on your mind today?

Did you see this?

Or this?

Just a little comedy relief.

Release your pent-up demand here. But clean up after yourselves.

Moving ceremony at Fort Lewis.

Thoughts on this or other news?

A nice woman who catches the bus where I do opined the other day that with hints of snow in the air, she bets some people still haven’t got their winter tires on yet.

Well, uh…guess what I just added to my to-do list.

But if you aren’t thinking about snow and winter driving, what is on your mind?

Two national stories on today’s front page, involve two of society’s most polarized issues: abortion and capital punishment. The public seems to be rigidly divided across an uncrossable gulf on both topics, yet in my several decades on this planet I have seen considerable, even dramatic, change in both arenas.

How is it that public attitudes can be made to shift about issues over which people flee the middle ground and race to the margins?

Big news over the weekend is that the health-care bill passed in the House. Onward to the Senate.

Thoughts on this and other news?

Michael G. Cahill of Spokane was one of the victims of the Fort Hood shootings.Condolences to the family and anyone who knew him.

Remember when that was a hot topic? Republicans vowed to fix it. Well, that isn’t going so well. In fact, it isn’t going at all. But eight of 10 panel members, including Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Mike Simpson, are still requesting them.

This is an interesting site. The link is for McMorris Rodgers’ requests. You can look up anyone you want. Here are Rep. Mike Simpson’s requests.

I like the transparency.

That Coeur d’Alene Council race between Mike Kennedy and Jim Brannon is amazingly close. Five votes. Wonder how many people didn’t vote, because they figured it wouldn’t matter.

Thoughts on this or other news of the day?

So what were the biggest election surprises?

Election predictions, anyone? I think Ref. 71 will pass and Prop 4 and I-1033 will fail.

And afternoon darkness descends. I really don’t like rolling back the clocks.

What’s on your mind?

Here’s the last thread of the week. Use it wisely.

Let’s just call it heavenly dandruff or pretend it didn’t happen.

What are your thoughts today?

Halloween costumes. Palin is so last year. Who will be the scary pol this year?

Thoughts on this or other topics?

You, too, can be a pundit, but the rules have changed. Here’s helpful hints from the Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten.

Example:

”Rule 3: Being a modern pundit is like being a microwave oven — it’s about heat, not light. The current debate in America, for example, isn’t whether Barack Obama is, or is not, right for the country, it’s about whether Barack Obama is, or is not, Hitler. This sort of thing helpfully crystallizes issues for a public that is increasingly accustomed to black-and-white, either-or, on-the-island or off-the-island decision-making. The more simple-minded, the better.”

Been reading “The Big Burn” by Timothy Egan (grew up in Spokane). It’s about the onset of the Forest Service, the fierce battles to oppose setting aside public land and the huge fire that turned public sentiment to the foresters.

Find it odd that Heyburn State Park was named for an Idaho senator who battled Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot because they wanted to prohibit commercial development on some lands. 

What’s on your mind today?

Green Bluff. Pumpkin doughnuts. Get on it.

What’s on your mind today (other than a Carpenters’ song)

Collect up those random musings and post them here.

Cloudy. No chance of meatballs. So I have to speak with high school kids wiith an alleged interest in journalism. What advice should I give?

What else is on your mind today?

Don’t like the topics in the other threads? Then test drive your ideas here.

Three topics in today’s Smart Bombs. Noticed this morning that the KPBX hosts smoothly folded the column into their pitches. Dang, they are good. Was also glad that they took the comment in the right spirit.

Thoughts on these topics?

Here’s Our View on the H1N1 vaccinations.

What’s your view? Will you or your kids be getting inoculated?

The Web site was experiencing technical difficulties yesterday. Sorry about that.

So what’s up today?

So it’s come to this.

  NEW YORK—According to a report published this week in American Journalism Review, 93 percent of all newspaper sales can now be attributed to kidnappers seeking to prove the day’s date in filmed ransom demands.