Raise those glasses and give a rightly deserved clink in celebration of Repeal Day. Yes, on this day, December 5, 1933, we repealed the “Eighteenth Amendment which had established a nationwide ban on the manufacture, MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to our Friday Free Chat — it’s the first of December and the weather is far from fine, that is if we’re referring to weather in symbolic terms. . MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, and welcome to a freezing day (yes, literally) in sunny California. Damn, I hope we get rain to get rid of this freaking butt-ass cold snap we’re having. I know, I MORE
Howdy News viewers on this “Black Friday”, the awful marketing ADdled day that comes with the notion that acquiring even more worthless merchandise to stuff in our closets and cabinets and everlasting garbage heaps is MORE
I just wanted to wish everyone in our News Views Community and our moderators a Happy Thanksgiving. Whatever is on your agenda today, be safe. Enjoy the day, ignore the MAGAts that you might have MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Tuesday. So, I completely forgot it’s Tuesday because I am up bright and early, pulling out platters and other serving stuff for our Thanksgiving, which will be on Saturday MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Friday. Our lovely Rachel won’t be here today so, you’re stuck with me. I always say, a bit of humor and laughter help make the world a better place MORE
Good morning, News Viewers! So how is it going in your world? I’m watching my local news, mainly for the weather forecast; their ‘bright and sunny’ attitude is a bit too much to deal with MORE
It’s another Friday in the neighborhood, the Friday after the first Tuesday after another bit of Trumpism gets voted into obscurity. At least, that’s the hope, vote by vote, decision by decision, verdict by verdict, MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Tuesday. So, it’s the first Tuesday in November; do you know what that means??? Elections! and this year is an off year but, we have some crucial elections going MORE
Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend. It’s that time of year again! Don’t forget to set your clocks back. Do we even do that anymore? Yeah, I have to turn the clock MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to our Friday free chat — the open forum where almost anything goes and everything stays, unless things get personal , that’s mostly what gets any of us in MORE
Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend. With all that’s going on in our world, mass shootings, endless wars, Fundie Freaks becoming the Speaker of the House, etc…just have some fun and enjoy MORE
We usually say “Happy Friday, News Viewers” to begin today’s free chat, but today it doesn’t feel happy–better words for today might be sad Friday? tragic, baffling, horrifying Friday? SSDD Friday, WTF Friday? The possibilities—wow. MORE
Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend. Yes, I’m a week early but I thought I would get a jump on Halloween movies only because….this weekend, Apple TV will allow you to watch MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, in this 42nd week of yet another year full of jaw dropping events. . . . .and the Duchess of Obvious predicts, “it ain’t over yet. . . .” A recent MORE
Good evening, News Viewers, and welcome to the weekend. So, we lost a music icon, Rudolph Isley, founding member of The Isley Brothers a few days ago; he was 84 years old. The family did MORE
Happy chaotic, crazy, unbelievable, lethal, frantic Friday, News Viewers. Let’s talk about it and everything else that, let’s face it, we’ll be talking about 20 years from now to kids, grandkids, (forgive us if we MORE
Good morning, News Viewers! So, yesterday, we talked about a few ideas and suggestions on adding some new features to News Views. We’re going to start off not so much at a snail’s pace but MORE
Good morning, News Viewers, and Happy Monday. Notice something different? If you asked, “Where’s Free Range, Free Chat?” Yeah, that’s what I want to address. We, your lovely hosts and hostesses, have had a few MORE
Happy Friday News Viewers, another day that ends in Y. We’re used to those — we were adapting to them 24 hours at a time. Why? Because, Adapt or Die. Most people know this fact MORE
Good Thursday morning, Coffee Talkers! Welcome to today’s Free Chat! After several unusual days of 80+° temps in October, this is our transition day. By the weekend, highs in the low- to mid-50s are going MORE
Good morning everyone and Happy Tuesday. What’s going on in your world? I was enjoying a nice taste of fall the last several days but summer returns by the end of the week and we MORE
Happy Monday News Viewers, this first Monday in October, 2023. The first Monday in October is the beginning of the Supreme Court’s Term —. The NYT states: “In the coming months the court will very MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and welcome to our free chat for today in this 39th week of the year. I’ve decided that the relationship between political cartoons and actual polical events is inversely proportional— the MORE