I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.Leontyne Price, O Magazine, December 2003If you do not recognize the name Leontyne Price, you have indeed missed out on one of the most-beautiful operatic sopranos in its entire history.
Good morning, Netizens...In this photo made available by Bridges TV of Orchard Park, NY near Buffalo, Muzzammil (Mo) Hassan, and his wife Aasiya Hassan of Orchard Park, pose in an undated photo. Police say Hassan beheaded his wife, an architect, after she filed for divorce.…
Good jmorning, Netizens...In this morning's David Horsey cartoon we see the Obama steam roller running over the GOP. I am still attempting to understand how the Stimulus Bill was a bipartisan effort, since none of the Republicans voted in favor of it, so Horsey appears…
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to buildbigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to producebigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
Good afternoon, Netizens... Once again Bob Kirkpatrick seems to have hit the nail on the head, taking full-bore aim at Bill Gates' announcement that Microsoft is considering opening a chain of Microsoft Stores. Ah, yes, the first stores in the history of merchanising whose products…
Good morning, Netizens... While I'll concede it is probably old news already, I've spent a fair amount of time and energy trying to ignore Queen Mary's regal appearance last Friday, and/or her royal pronouncements regarding the State of our City. Unlike Doug Clark, who wrote…
Good morning, Netizens... Happy Valentines Day! So what do you do for that special person in your life when Valentine's Day calls? You send flowers. Here are a lovely bunch of roses contributed by one of our finer photographers and the cards that accompanied them:…
Good morning, Netizens... Yesterday afternoon while engrossed in a series of mundane tasks, my own beloved wife became snarled up in a police matter that left me laughing. A person whom I shall hereby refer to as “the tallywhacker wagger” was standing on a public…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's David Horsey cartoon from the Post-Intelligencer, he asks a question perhaps no one in the Blogosphere wants answered, that being what will the press conferences of the future look like when all the newspapers have closed and shuttered their…
Good morning, Netizens... The news the last few weeks has been to put it bluntly, depressing. No, I'm not talking about the pile of Jello that our nation's finances have turned into, although I could easily write two or three pages of raw vitriol about…
Good morning, Netizens... Before I begin this morning's rant, let me roll the calendar back a few decades to better demonstrate my personal perspective on that which our veteran cartoonist, Bob Kirkpatrick has spoken so well. The year was approximately the 1980's, and I was…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's Picture of the Day, thousands of people turned out Wednesday for a federal government job fair at the Atlanta Federal Center in downtown Atlanta. If you look far enough back in American history, it hasn't been all that long…
Good evening, Netizens... I first met David Elton face-to-face early in the morning at Starbucks on the South Hill last winter and suffered some of Starbuck's wretched coffee. Ironically, despite the fact David was distracted by holding several other simultaneous conversations and playing competitive chess…
Good morning, Netizens... The bear isn't buying the deal! With the announcement that the economic stimulus plan is a done deal, the Wall Street bear in this morning's David Horsey cartoon isn't buying any of it. Judging by the fallout dramatic drop on Wall Street…
Good evening, Netizens...Todays' David Horsey cartoon opens a frequently-visited portal of discussion, that being Rush Limbaugh. Is he, as the cartoon suggests, an entertainer, or is he such a major part of the Republican Party that he surpasses entertainment? As David Horsey suggests, isn't it…
Good evening, Netizens...According to KHQ-TV Spokane Police have arrested a man after he wrote an email in which he threatened to kill City Council President Joe Shogun. David Elton, 43, was arrested following an interview with police Tuesday. Elton has been charged with three counts…
Good morning, Netizens... In this morning's picture of the day, Sayed Abdul Karim, 80, sits with his grandaughter, Camina, 9, left, in an internally displaced camp three hours from their village in Galochi district, bombed in a U.S. military raid on Sunday in Laghman, Afghanistan.…
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun, 1951
The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)Reagan forgot one other axiom: if, despite all the…
Good afternoon, Netizens...Seen and heard over the fence behind the Virtual Ballroom: Dear Sirs:One of my checks was returned, marked insufficient funds. In view of current events in the banking market, does that refer to me or to you? Now that seems like an apt…
Good morning, Netizens... Here is a name from my past and yours, one that will unquestionably be remembered long after you and I are interred and forgotten. I have worshiped and idolized Indian classical music and Ravi Shakar since the first time I was introduced…
Good afternoon, Netizens... Today's Picture of the Day, personally a favorite, shows former First Lady Nancy Reagan spending quiet time with her late husband, which brings me to my commentary on matrimony in the White House. A blogger for the New York Times asked a…