The Lounge

Good morning News Viewers, members of the jury, esteemed members of the press, and those braving the political circus, this week we witnessed a curious phenomenon at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. At the MORE

Good Morning, News Viewers, and do my eyes deceive me? I’ve turned on the dreaded “Morning Joe” and both Joe and Mika are on at the same time, both laughing at something quippy. Mika isn’t MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers 🥳🤘 and what a Friday it is — remember the line from Romeo and Juliet? “I do spy a kind of hope,” said the Friar. . . .— and so do MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers, and congratulations on living through another week so surreal, so twisted , that actually it may have been a nightmare. The RNC has been a collection of circus acts, bent on MORE

TGIF News Viewers on a cloudy, possibly tornado-y day here in the Holler — and elsewhere? Blistering heat, hurricanes, flash floods, drought — another typical 21st century day. It’s also another week of painful politics, MORE

Happy Friday, News Viewers. . . . we trudged past the 4th AND heard no fat lady singing. . . . .until she sings, we are still here in survival mode and quoting people who MORE

TGIF News Viewers and there is some great news today—–TO START, -there is no debate today and there is still time to smell the coffee, walk on the wild side, live like there’s no tomorrow MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers, another stunning week of news. What was stunning about it? Let’s talk about it. Welcome to free chat whatcha got? .

Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to another steamy FryDay, under the dreaded Heat Dome, ( that umbrella over half the U.S. that turns Friday into FryDay. . . . You will remember hearing about it, MORE

Happy Friday News Viewers, and welcome to our Friday Open Forum where the topics are yours to choose and discuss, always within reason of course, according to the guidelines. This is the day after the MORE

TGIF, News Viewers, and welcome to free chat — another week in the news that has been so bizarre, I wouldn’t believe it if we weren’t living it. . . Trump is the news, sucking MORE

Happy Friday, News Viewers, and for the record, Kentucky is afflicted with tornadoes but has not, sadly, blown away. At least we have Internet again and at least we managed a great Kentucky Derby. With MORE

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