The Lounge

Good morning and Happy Friday, News Viewers — I woke up with a song in my head, playing as clearly as if I had fallen to sleep with my ear pods in — I haven’t MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers, on this the 19th day of April, coming to you from our nation’s capital—-a strange, strange non-state of the union that enshrines the notion of this particular union of states. It’s MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers , welcome to Free Chat, our open forum for today. While there has been plenty of drama and tall tales, wars and rumors of wars here on earth, it was all MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to our Friday free chat/open forum, and welcome to the end of another month in 2024. The election looms. . . . but so do a lot of other things MORE

It’s a beautiful day In the neighborhood, ain’t it kids? Not quite as glowing in the wider world, but we look at it today with clear eyes and level heads. . . Because others with MORE

BEWARE the Ides of March, News Viewers — that would be today, by the by, the day Julius Caesar was “removed from office,” by his enablers.. . . . .as foretold in a dream by MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers! If you watched the State of the Union address last night, you’ll understand why posting the usual fare just won’t do — because our President Brought It in real time. I’m MORE

Happy Friday, News Viewers, this the 8th week, the 8th Friday, the 54th day of 2024, a year that has 366 days and a February 29th. By all accounts, this is a regular old Friday MORE

Hiya News Viewers, welcome to our weekly Friday Free Chat. . . . . You know, it’s not just any day, it’s Friday, and it’s not just any month, it’s Black History Month, and it’s MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers and welcome to our Friday Free Chat, where topics collide…. (My new movie title☺️) where topics flow freely, where we discuss and agree or we don’t agree, while we attempt to MORE

No really, it IS Friday again, I am not kidding — not only that, it’s February, a new month, even though Thanksgiving and Christmas of 2023 were yesterday…… we still have our job to do. MORE

Welcome to Friday’s free chat, TGIF, I repeat TGIF. . . . . This is the forum to freely chat about what’s happening in your world — and if nothing is going on where you MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers and welcome to Free Chat where ideas, solutions, thoughts, jokes, puns form today’s word blizzard — we’ve got weather blizzards too– here in the Holler it’s 20 degrees F so that MORE

From the Past: A gallery of January 6 political cartoons from 2021, 2022 and 2023 And what about now? A few ‘toons from the news January 5-12, 2024, Friday’s Free Chat A Happy Friday to MORE

So far, week 1, 2024 has seen war in Gaza, the West Bank. Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and others, a school shooting in Iowa, one presidential candidate who thinks the Civil War MORE

As I hit the road back to Kentucky from DC, I’m hoping for the rain to stop in DC and for the snow to hold off in Kentucky until I’m home….. While I’m driving and MORE

Happy Friday, News Viewers, coming to you from our nation’s capitol — I drove all day yesterday to DC to visit my oldest and his wife for Christmas — it was such a long drive MORE

11 years ago, the Sandy Hook School Shooting, December 14, 2012. 20 children ages seven and under, and six school employees. He then killed himself. Earlier in the day, he had killed his mother at MORE