Good morning, Netizens... To perhaps better understand David Horsey's cartoon this morning, you would have to have stood before the building which, until today, housed the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper, for today is its last day of publishing a printed paper. Atop the building, set up…
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.Norm Crosby
Good afternoon, Netizens...Until now scientists and we laypersons have only theorized about how high-voltage power lines affect human life. However, a study conducted by the Czech Science Foundation and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Czech Republic state emphatically that power lines…
Good afternoon, Netizens...A good friend forwarded this rather lengthy piece to me and, upon reading it through twice, I began to listen and anticipate what the author had to say. Could it happen here, in the land of milk and honey? The author of this…
Good morning, Netizens...A German fast food company, in hopes of increasing their sales, hit on a new fast food, Obama Fingers with curry sauce. The company, according to the AP piece, says it meant no racist overtones, as it wasn't aware of any implied racism.Many…
Good morning, Netizens... Lewis Henderson wrote in part, at the outer edge of a long and highly articulate set of questions: here: http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/commcomm/2009/mar/15/peering-future/#comments “Was America ever actually great or is that just something I used to hear my grandpa say?” I've heard America singing its…
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Good morning, Netizens... Halfway through the month of March and perhaps the lion that has savaged our fair city will simply disappear, taking with it the interminable snow berms, the fiscal malaise and perhaps if we are truly fortunate, the abominably high Avista bills that…
Good afternoon Netizens...It has taken me awhile to figure out how to upload this PDF copy of the Zehm lawsuit, then to make it accessible, but it does appear I was successful.http://www.spokesman.com/documents/2009/mar/14/zehm-lawsuit/ This represents justice for Otto, the first justice he has had since he…
Good afternoon, Netizens...WASHINGTON March 14, 2009, 11:15 am ET · The nation's food safety system is a "hazard to public health" and overdue for an overhaul, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he focused on that task by filling the top job at the Food…
Good morning, Netizens... Like most citizens reading the history of the Jay Olsen trial, I sat disconsolately in my chair each day watching the testimony unfold like a badly-wounded badger pinned in a corner against the wall. I was not at the scene of the…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon we have a faux vision of how Seattle must have looked in the 1860's when the Intelligencer newspaper was in its prime, televisions were an unheard-of development and newsprint was still the king of the news…
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
From the S-R: A federal civil rights damages suit was filed this afternoon against the city of Spokane and nine of its police officers by the estate of the late Otto Zehm.
The verdict just came in. Jay Olsen was found not guilty of all charges. I personally am very surprised at this. What is your opinion?
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon, we see a picture of the deplorable subcultures of the United States known as the drug companies and the health care insurers operating on the poor patient, the US Health Care System. Like most people of…
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Good morning, Netizens... Leonore Annenberg, the widow of billionaire publisher Walter Annenberg who continued his tradition of philanthropy and patronage of the arts, died Thursday. She was 91.Annenberg died of natural causes at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., family spokeswoman Kathleen Hall Jamieson…
Good morning, Netizens... While we are out dancing in the streets with ecstasy over Jay Olsen coming out of the closet, we might want to dance a lick or two for Bernie Madoff who arrived at the lower Manhattan courthouse just after 7 a.m. today…
Good morning, Netizens... Having dabbled briefly in the wild wonderful world of Spokane Police politics, and having spent the better part of two days making certain, in my mind, that former policeman Jay Olsen is a simpering self-serving nincompoop who would shoot someone with drunken…
The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City
Good morning, Netizens... The Jay Olsen trial, currently nearing its logical end, has opened Pandora's box and revealed how discredited the Spokane Police Guild truly is. There are lapses, and then there are huge gaps of fact which never have been allowed to happen, were…
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.Elayne Boolser
Good morning, Netizens... Thus we begin week two of Jeanie-deprivation and she is serving out a sentence as a juror-candidate for our own beloved malformed justice system. Of course, while she is thus engaged, she is forbidden from being active on the Internet and a…
When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web.... Now even my cat has its own page.Former President Bill Clinton (1946 - ), announcement of Next Generation Internet initiative, 1996
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