The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur.That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the real visionaries, than you're already doing. Thinking more about what their needs are, and responding accordingly. Avoid the dullards; avoid the…
Picture from my archives Good morning, Netizens...TGIF!What better way to start off the approaches to Thanksgiving with a bit of humor? By the way, having raised some turkeys from the time they were chicks, I can tell you with absolute authority that, other than being…
Photo Source: EPAGood morning, Netizens...I have been closely following a parallel set of events, the legal battles in Nebraska over being able to anonymously drop off children at area hospitals, and then this picture, which says a whole lot more to me. What has created…
Photo Source APGood morning, Netizens...In my reverie this morning, I gazed repeatedly at this picture of a woman carrying firewood using a headband and her 18-month-old daughter down a dangerous road in the African Congo. This was shot on the road linking Rupango to Sake,…
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American. Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks,…
Good morning, Netizens...Tina Loesch and Skye Hanson had a pretty good run of it in a sick, demented sort of way. If half of what one surmises, reading the official releases from the Post Falls Police Department are accurate, the lesbian lovers were directly or…
Good morning, Netizens...This morning, we begin a fictional review of Thanksgiving past, as viewed through my particular aperture on life. It should be noted that the Safeway Store that this story refers to is no longer there, thus making Aunt Lucretia make the trip on…
AP photoGood morning, Netizens...It is not quite dawn and while I sit in solitude on the stoop in front of the Virtual Ballroom, Spokane awakens, awakening from her sleep, she combs the beer cans out of her hair and makes preparations for another day's business.…
Good morning, Netizens...In a scene somewhat familiar to people in Spokane from last summer's wild fires, stairs leading up to a home destroyed by fire are seen at the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in the Sylmar area of Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, Nov. 16,…
Good morning, Netizens...In one of our pictures of the day, we have another vision of Barack Obama as Russian artist Farid Bogdalov poses next to his painting of US President-elect Barack Obama dressed as Uncle Sam in a gallery in Moscow. Picture: Courtesy of APUncle…
Good morning, Netizens...Call them right-wing whack jobs, extremists or other less-exemplary bits of nomenclature, what is unavoidable in such discussions is that the ultra-conservative elements of the Republican Party have about the same rights as the Ultra-left-wing members of the Democratic party who often appear…
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive? Roseanne Barr
Good morning, Netizens...Today is the beginning of the Salvation Army's traditional holiday funding drive. Yes, it's that time of year again, and as the Season of Giving inexorably begins creeping upon us all, the Salvation Army's Red Kettles begin appearing in front of area stores…
Good morning, Netizens...This is a multiple-choice question from the Seattle-Post Intelligencer's David Horsey, and once again I think he's got the choices just about down pat, with the possible exception of (D) Let the so-called free market operate and let our finances take their course.…
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power. Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Good afternoon, Netizens...I think I may be onto something. A news item hot off the presses from Reuters is interesting to say the very least. According to Reuters the White Cockatoo Resort in Queensland, Australia will hold a month-long, nude "anything goes" party to combat…
Good morning, Netizens...I am frankly surprised that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's David Horsey took this long to notice what has happened to our 401-K's, but then he has been distracted as of late what the election campaigns grinding away at his senses. With 401-K's dropping like…
Good morning, Netizens...Having been gravitating toward the political more than I ought, it was with some considerable relief that I returned to my beloved Virtual Ballroom quite early this morning before the sun had even tinged the eastern sky with a festival of colors. Although…
Good morning, Netizens...In our picture of the day, we have the so-called "Schwellkoepp" (swollen heads), the traditional carnival figures of Mainz, take part in a parade on Tuesday in Mainz, southwestern Germany. Carnival revellers in the German capital and mainly the Rhine region celebrated the…
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. Henrik Tikkanen
I once came across my Dad's high school yearbook – his senior year. I scoured the pages for a look at my Dad at the same age I was – 18 and a senior at Lewis & Clark. I couldn't find him.Finally on the last…
Good morning, Netizens...I have really mixed-up emotions about real estate foreclosures in our present economy. At first glance, it seems pretty much straightforward that defaulting on a mortgage, even a poorly-conceived and perhaps even fraudulently-written mortgage leads to foreclosures that push down all house prices.…
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
Good morning, Netizens...In this Nov. 16, 2006 AP file photo South African singer Miriam Makeba performs on stage at the Avo Session in Basel, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Keystone/Georgios Kefalas)Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from…
Good evening, Netizens...There comes a time in every joy-filled event when it is over, and at last you must drift back toward your home, still vibrating with the sounds and the memories of the faces of everyone you have seen. In my final picture of…
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