Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 52
Happy New Year’s Eve News Viewers, welcome to Friday’s free chat here at News Views; today is the last day for all lousy habits, all processed food, all snarky comebacks, all road rage, all throwing MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 51
Happy Friday News Viewers (or should I say Happy Christmas Eve, 2021). This year, I find myself reframing Christmas, tearing it away from past traditions, family memories, cultural expectations and nutty stories about judgy old MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 49
Happy Friday News Viewers on this the 49th week of 2021; this is today’s free chat where keyboard to keyboard we exchange thoughts, opinions, ideas, frustrations and solutions with each other. Any and all topics MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 48
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and here we are in the 48th week of a 52 year long 2021 or some would say a 104 week long 2020. The top collection of cartoons are a few MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 47
Happy Friday News Viewers — Day after Thanksgiving, and today I’m thankful that Thanksgiving is over for another year. . . .We call this “Black Friday,” a day for shopping and deals; I’m reclaiming the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 46
Happy Friday News Viewers as we face the reality that we’ve been freely chatting with each other for 46 weeks, almost all of 2021. Do you remember when the year was 2020, the year from MORE
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Free Chat Friday, Week 45
Happy Friday News Viewers on this gloomy cloudy Friday morning, November 12, 2021. This is Free Chat where anything goes, all (or most) topics, you pick…….. No snow so far in my old Kentucky home, MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 44
Good Morning News Viewers, and welcome to Friday’s Free Chat, another of our weekly open threads for discussing it all; whatever “it” is. . . . and right now, I’m having a strong sense that MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 43
Happy Friday News Viewers, welcome to Free Chat with a Halloween Theme; it is nearly Halloween, the most unscary holiday of the year.. .. .. While the standard horror tropes — ghosts, witches, fog, skulls MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 42
Good morning News Viewers and Happy Friday; I’m writing from a cloudy and rainy Washington state where I’m visiting the youngest and his spouse AND where I attended 7th and 8th grade back in the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 41
Happy Friday for the 41st time this year! Wow, that’s astounding to think we have 11 weeks left of what’s turned out to be just another year of pandemic pandemonium. So much to look forward MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 40
Happy Friday News Viewers, and unbelievably it’s the 40th week of the year, meaning we can see 2022 in the near distance. As I looked at political cartoons for last year at this time, I MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 39
Good morning News Viewers and is it Happy Friday? Crappy Friday? Mad, Sad or Glad Friday? I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for a Zen, Let it Go, Kick Back and Relax, Smell MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 38
Happy Friday, news viewers, I’m in complete shock — it’s 50 degrees of cool here in the holler; I won’t say Summer is over because I don’t want to jinx this, but it feels fantastic MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 37
Howdy News Viewers and Happy Friday, this is Friday’s Free Chat, a place to talk about the happenings of the week in all those arenas of concern — political, personal, cultural, national and local and MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 36
Happy Friday, News Viewers. . . . . .wait, is “Happy” the right word? Maybe it should be Solemn Friday, Meditative Friday, Agitated Friday, Zen Friday, Serene Friday, Expectant Friday. . . . . or MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 35
Last year, in September of 2020, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died. In September of 2021, the Supreme Court allowed the most repressive Anti-Choice law in the nation to stand, seen as a precursor to the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 33
As if there weren’t enough going on in the world, some idjit from Cultikistan decides to bomb the Capitol. Only he doesn’t do it, of course. He just talks about doing it, then films himself MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 32
Happy Friday, News Viewers, or maybe I should say “Happy Reinstatement Day” the day You Know Who declared his reinstatement to the presidency. Since it hasn’t happened, from this day forward, Friday the 13th will MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 31
Happy Friday New Viewers, time to freely chat about all things News adjacent from this week, and while we’re at it, let’s talk about life in the time of COVID, life in the time of MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 30
“Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.” It’s an old cartoon, old history, but it’s also scarily reflective of our present. I keep thinking of the quote from baseball player Satchel Paige, “don’t MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 29
Happy Friday News Viewers, and welcome to Free Chat Friday where every topic is THE topic; where anything goes and everything stays. . . . On this Friday, almost the end of July, we’re faced MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 28
Happy Friday News Viewers, over half the year of 2021 has passed. While my elderly Dad is quoting “The moving finger writes and having writ moves on” from the Rubaiyat, those of us who haven’t MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 27
Friday AGAIN? Happy Friday News Viewers, as we recognize that yes, we’ve moved forward in time one week while at the same time, we have moved absolutely nowhere, while at the same time we have MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 26
Happy Friday, News Viewers, welcome to the Land of the Free and the Home of the Chat. . . . . That reminds me, Independence Day is coming up and I wonder, is this nation MORE