When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.The…
Good morning, Netizens... Yet we cannot forget, even in this glad hour, that while all men of every race, and clime, and condition, have been invested with the full rights of citizenship under our hospitable flag, all women still suffer the degradation of disfranchisement. (Susan…
Good evening, Netizens... The Spokane Police Department is about to garner some fairly substantial grant money, and tonight we're going to help them spend it. That isn't officially what is expected to happen. In fact, I can hear the sounds of machinations taking place at…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon we have the first time that David Horsey has violated the air space of Barack Obama's sacredness. Of course, that isn't to say that President Obama is sacred, no; rather it speaks to the truth about…
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
Good morning, Netizens... A peacock spreads its wings at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, Thursday and announces proudly, it's FRIDAY! Oh thank goodness it's Friday! Hitch on your flippers, fasten down your hat and let's tap dance our way down the boulevard. Perhaps…
Good morning, Netizens... In Jonathan Brunt's article here http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/mar/06/city-says-bus-benches-must-go/ states, we may not have bus benches to sit on much longer, and upon reading further into the story, it does appear as if we have a classic brouhaha pitting our beloved Queen Mary of City…
I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for…
Good morning, Netizens... Tanya WHO? I only vaguely recall President Obama mentioning skater Tanya Harding, as in this YouTube video, but it didn't take Harding very long to come out of her seclusion swinging for the fences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgeWDir404 Remind me to never mention her name,…
Good morning, Netizens... Here we have another bird story, this time a bit closer to home. An Oregon driver hit a red tailed hawk on Interstate 5 the other day, but figured after colliding with the bird at 70 MPH the bird probably didn't survive…
Good morning, Netizens... Matthew Roberto Gonzalez of Opa Locka, Fla., was driving on U.S. Interstate 80 in northeast Nevada near Wells, about 60 miles west of the Utah line, when the eagle came crashing into the cab of his truck through the windshield. "I heard…
Good evening, Netizens...I read a short while ago that although former First Lady Barbara Bush was hospitalized earlier today and open heart surgery performed, what nearly eluded me was that actor/comedian Robin Williams is also hospitalized in Florida with unnamed heart issues, as well.According to…
Good afternoon, Netizens…A Canadian who demanded courtesy from a U.S. border security guard says he was pepper sprayed and held in custody for three hours for asking the disrespectful officer to "say please" when ordering him to turn his car off during a search.Yes, you…
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Good evening, Netizens...The question, as posed by Bob Kirkpatrick (http://www.deludia.com) in his mini-cartoon from the annex (http://yak.deludia.com/viewtopic.php?id=28) seems to be whether or not mothers should be allowed to breast feed their infants while they are piloting their ways down the freeway. Should a State Patrol…
Good morning, Netizens... Before this week gets moving along too quickly, I should extend a warm thank you to Dave Oliveria and the various netizens of Blogfest 2009 for the warm and fascinating afternoon, not to mention the pizza, the pop and the camaraderie. Since…
Good morning, Netizens... Let's open this morning's salvo of thoughts introspective with a picture of revelers wearing masks during a parade through the streets of Basel, Switzerland, Monday. I cannot and should never speak for everyone, but I feel relatively certain that most black families…
When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales,'' they don't necessary think of chairs. Joan Kerr
Good morning, Netizens...The ever-amazing Bob Kirkpatrick asks the hard questions, and takes a look at our energy crisis. Do we actually have enough energy? Yes/no? Hmm. Dave
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.Herb Caen
Good morning, Netizens... Yesterday Paul Harvey passed away, leaving the radio airwaves bereft of one of its longest-running voices. His legendary machine-gun style of news broadcast, which was known around the country as "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951,…
No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.Paris Hilton (1981 - )
Good morning, Netizens...Is the Obama tax plan really class warfare? Or is it, as some have suggested, merely an adjustment from the Bush era back toward the middle of the road? Can it save our ecxonomy or will it lead us to worse conditions than…
Good morning, Netizens... Could it be possible, based upon David Horsey's cartoon this morning, whether President Obama is getting a violent rash each time he seeks to appoint someone to his cabinet? After all, how many cabinet appointees has it been that have run afoul…
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.Dave Barry (1947 - )
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