Good morning, everyone... First, before I defend my use of the term Queen Mary let me set the stage just a bit. Both my wife and I have lived for decades in the so-called snow zone: me in Colorado's high country, Suzie in the Midwest…
Good morning, Netizens... Here, in my opinion, is the scope of the problem(s) facing Spokane as of 6:00 AM this morning, with my proposed solutions to follow in a separate message: According to my time chart, it stopped snowing at approximately 4:15 yesterday. At the…
Good morning, Netizens...It's 5:44 AM here in Spokane and I just spoke with John Olsen who called me to give me a "heads up" about the mythological nature of the snow removal last night. He was standing at 14th and Bernard and it appeared to…
Good morning, Netizens... Originally I was going to write about my band of friends, those people whom I have loved and admired throughout most of my days. However, writing about my band of friends has changed so much, particularly with Community Comment and the Virtual…
Holly is a common adornment in holiday arrangements and home decorations. Despite the association with Christmas, holly did not get its name from “holy”. It is translated in Old English as holegn, or Old Norse as Holfr, or perhaps German as hulst, French as houx…
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.Bob Thaves, "Frank and Ernest", 1982
Good morning, Netizens... According to the National Weather Service (The REAL weather forecasters) they have issued both a Hazardous Weather Outlook and a Winter Storm Warning for today and this evening. Although there were clouds present over Spokane most of the night, which is why…
When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The…
Good evening, Netizens... We're putting the cart a little ahead of the horsey here, pun intended. This cartoon was supposed to be for tomorrow's message, but I wanted to make certain I had figured out how to post an image first. So, here is tomorrow's…
Good evening, Jeanie... I understand you are "in the know" about how to post pictures. Is that true? Dave
We have a "band of friends" at Community Comment It's time to have a little face-to-face communication, or, keyboard to keyboard. I like the keyboard method because each person can pretty much use their imagination to what each of us look like.
The origin of the Christmas tree is much disputed. Our modern Christmas tree evolved from early traditions of the Egyptians, Romans and Druids. They all used decorated trees in winter celebrations long before the advent of Christianity. The Egyptians brought green date palm leaves into…
Good morning, Netizens... Today we begin the transition from the old familiar Blog format to the new Blog format. Beginning at about 10:00 AM this morning and perhaps lasting for several hours, a series of updates and upgrades will be taking place which may affect…
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day,…
Good morning, Netizens...Things are admittedly tight this year. There are some who are suggesting we are headed for another Great Depression. Or are we? There is a really good slideshow/video by Jim Kershner showing how The Great Depression affected Spokane. It contains some truly great…
Good morning, Netizens...It is 7:00 AM here in Spokane, and the temperature is 5 degrees with a 13 MPH wind out of the North North-East. For those of you are either curious or into pain, that translates into a Wind Chill of -12 degrees. What…
Good morning, Netizens...1:30 AM SundayIf you haven't discovered on your own, meteorology as practiced here in Spokane is far from a perfect science. If one gave any credence to the weather forecasts being handed out Friday night through Saturday morning by the various weather forecasters…
His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Good afternoon, Netizens...Cartoon Credit: David Horsey/Seattle Post-IntelligencerMy greatest difficulty with today's Horsey cartoon is the various ways in which you can look at both Zimbabwe and Mugabe. Conditions in Zimbabwe are past intolerable, with no drinking water, garbage piling up in the streets, sewage flowing…
Good morning, Netizens...There are many rites of Christmas to which we each, in our own way, pay homage, almost without conscious thought. Round-eyed children gather around Santa Claus at the mall, the camera man leaning forward for a photo child sitting on Santa's lap, the…
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), a book review
Good morning, Netizens...Picture Credit: BBSpot.comThe Tech Corner on broken wheelsEveryone has read about Linux at one time or another. Even primordial tribes of the most remote areas of the world have heard the various claims to fame by various Linux distributions, but this morning, a…
Good morning, Netizens...Cartoon credit: David Horsey/Seattle Post-IntelligencerAh, yes, I was wondering if David Horsey would pick up on the stories that ran in several prominent East Coast papers about the number of Big Box stores who were laying off Santa Clauses and here we have…
Good morning, Netizens...Cartoon Credit: David Horsey/Seattle Post-Intelligencer As I noted yesterday, the potty-mouthed Illinois State Governor Blagojevich is in deep trouble with the FBI and Justice Department. Hence, according to David Horsey and others, here we have the new Illinois State Seal as modified to…
This is the Week of Anticipation. It's seen in every child as they peer through the window at the snow-crested trees, the lights and decorations draping the tree in the living room, the bells ringing on maybe sleighs drawn by horses, adorned with bells and…
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