Good morning, Netizens...Last Friday a band of close friends who helped formulate and build Community Comment met at our traditional meeting place to discuss the future of Community Comment in the face of the continuing downsizing of the Spokesman-Review. This was a closed Gathering, limited…
Good morning, Netizens...One of my favorite American novelists, Tony Hillerman, died Sunday at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque, The Associated Press reported. He was 83 and died of pulmonary failure, according to the press wires. Hillerman became an award-winning novelist writing crime novels about the people…
Good afternoon, Netizens...The Dow Jones news ticker and an advertisement for the movie "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" are seen simultaneously in Times Square Friday in New York. How utterly appropriate!In case you missed it, on Friday Wall Street joined world stock markets in a horrifying…
There is a new fad going on – really high heels. I doubt this would affect you men, unless you have a thing against your wife or girlfriend suddenly being taller than you. For me, being kind of ungraceful at times, these would require crutches…
The Official Report Contact : T.MosesDate : 10/22/2008Incident #: 08-327494Shooting at ElementsOn 102208 at approximately 0100 hours a shooting ocurred at the "Elements" nightclub located at 21 E Lincoln Rd in Spokane. A fight broke out among the patrons and during this incident, at least…
Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!This just in from AP, "Stocks, oil, gold tank on growing recession fears", By Patrick Rizzo and Ellen Simon, Associated Press Writers Stock market rout spreads around the world as recession worries turn to dismaySee the article here I have been…
Contact : Corp. Meidl Date : 10/21/2008 Incident #: Prostitution Targeted in East SpokaneOn 10/21/2008, several officers joined forces and made numerous arrests to try and curb the prostitution occurring in the City of Spokane. After several businesses complained about prostitution in the East Central…
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. George Jean Nathan
Good morning, Netizens...Someone whom I know who has a vibrant sense of humor handed this to me in e-mail recently and given the preponderance of angst and political malcontent taking place in Community Comment, I thought enough of it to post this spoof here. While…
Good morning, Netizens...Another day in the life of David Horsey, and this time I nearly spilled a freshly-brewed cup of virtual espresso down my bib laughing hysterically. What is equally funny is that charges and counter-charges such as those being levied against ACORN have raised…
From KREM is a story about what good neighbors can do with one very bad neighbor. Lt. Burke Jensen and his pregnant wife moved into a new home in Kennewick, a year ago. Then he was deployed to Iraq and his wife went to stay…
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Good morning, Netizens...The majority of the readers of this Blog never notice it, but behind the scenes the Associated Press plays a role nearly every day in what gets shipped as news, most notably in pictures and video. According to my inbound spool of pictures,…
What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness. M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
Good evening, Netizens...We trod a path, simply because it called to us, and when we turned, all we could see was where some mad naturist-painter had had his way with all the trees. The reds, purples, fervent dark greens and pastel yellows had all spilled…
Good evening, Netizens...Wandering down a country road near Lake Pend O'Reille I chanced upon this marvelous piece of autumn craftsmanship. The reason the intricacy of the spider web is difficult to see in this picture is that the web consisted of at least half a…
Admiration, n.: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
I can't find anywhere else to ask this question, so pardon the off-topic instrusion. Re: "County takes heat over buying land near air base"Can anyone explain to me what a "rock mine" is? Seems like mines, by definition, are "rock mines." Is this another way…
Good morning, Netizens...In today's David Horsey cartoon in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer online newspaper, Horsey asks a question that perhaps may infuriate some while it is hoped will perhaps engender some awareness of the question, 'What is McCain's message?', perhaps even get some responses that are…
Good morning, Netizens...First, let's rewind the tape on Kevin Coe a bit and peer at him through the eyes of history. I was not living in Spokane during his two year reign of terror on the South Hill, and yet, as a bystander to history,…
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. Jimmy Carter (1924 - )
Good morning, Netizens...David Horsey's cartoon for Wednesday from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer speaks for itself. Senator John McCain did make reference to Bill Ayers during last night's debate, but no mention was made of Reverend Wright, which surprised many news commentators. The debate did have its…
Contact : Ofc. Teresa Fuller Date : 10/15/2008 Incident #: Pedestrian Emphasis ResultsToday's pedestrian safety emphasis in the WSU Spokane Campus area yielded 34 citations in about two and a half hours. Nine motor officers, along with Neighborhood Resource Officers Shaney Redmon and Wayne Downing…
Good morning, Netizens...Okay, here's how we're going to decide the Presidential race. Bobblehead figures representing presidential hopefuls Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are held outside the Cleveland home of the minor league hockey team the Lake Erie Monsters on Tuesday. The Monsters are…
Good morning, Netizens...There was a time, in the springtime of life, when the sunlight crept across the paisley curtains beside their bed and watched them frolic in the throes of lust early one morning. Perhaps that stray beam of sunlight was bemused at the fact…
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