Last Call
Last Call: August 28, 2021
Good evening and welcome from smokey, hot California, home of the GQP power grab to obtain the highest office in the state, governor. I won’t spend any time on this issue because it’s incredibly stupid. MORE
The Lounge
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Another week has gone by and NewsViews was there with you when we found out we lost an epic rock and roll friend, Charlie Watts. Drummer of the Rolling Stones for 60 years, Charlie didn’t MORE
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: August 24, 2021
Oh, nature’s air conditioning, how much I love you and how much my plants love you. No longer is the sun beating down on all of you and scorching and frying you to death. The MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
“Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come” Jeff Goodell What might an accurate worst-case picture of the planet’s climate-addled future actually look like, then? The MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Today, class, let’s talk about box wine. It’s been one of those weeks that has me considering quantity over quality. The world watches what’s going down in Afghanistan. Desperate people are flooding the last shred 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
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: August 17, 2021
Good morning and Happy Tuesday! At least, it’s not Monday. I so do not do well on Mondays. I’ll make it short and sweet because we have so many crisis going on all around us. MORE
Last Call
Last Call: August 14, 2021
So, I just wrote the date, double checked to make sure I had the correct date, then realized: Joe Biden’s still our president. So much for the bigly reinstatement of the Former Guy. Earlier today, MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Well, I do hope you plan to continue your celebrations well into the night on this First Annual Reinstatement Day with an evening of song, dance and reinstatement libations. There’s a party goin’ on right 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
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: August 10, 2021
This is how August works for us: One of my son’s birthday One of my step-child’s b-days. A sister and brother in law’s b-days. Three of my step grand children’s b-days. OH….and Athena, (Baby Baby), MORE
Free Range Free Chat
When the Birds Began to Die
When migratory bird ecologist Brian Evans first started hearing about dead birds across Washington, D.C., in mid-May, he “wrote it off,” says Evans, who’s on staff at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute’s Migratory Bird Center. MORE
Last Call
Last Call: August 7, 2021
It could actually be a nice day, not too hot, hot but doable. But, the smoke from the wildfires tearing up CA has now made its way to our neck of the woods and it MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Yesterday it was reported that Charlie Watts, 80, would not be joining the Rolling Stones 2021 U.S. Fall Tour due to a successful medical procedure for an unknown condition. “Charlie has had a procedure which 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
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: August 3, 2021
Petty Grievances: We all have them; might as well talk about them…here, not on threads that someone worked hard to put together only to see it get derailed with petty grievances. Personally, I believe that MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
Happy Monday, News Viewers, and welcome to Free Range, our free chat centering on the world around us, the environment of animals, people, land and sea and let’s include space while we’re at it, shall MORE
Last Call
Last Call: July 31, 2021
So, another month has come to an end proving once again, time flies and this year has gone by incredibly fast. I remember last year when we all could hardly wait for 2020 to end MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
My Twitter feed has alerted me to plenty of sad news from the world of music recently. This week alone, Twitterverse counted three deaths in the rock and roll sphere. Two lesser knowns, Mike Howe, 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
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: July 27, 2021
Good morning, News Viewers and Happy Tuesday; so happy it isn’t Monday. Feel free to talk about anything you please within reason, of course. And, if you choose, please join us for a Live Discussion MORE
Free Range Free Chat
Free Range Free Chat
It’s Monday and we’re in the middle of the Dog Days of Summer, the steaming hot 40 days in July to August of every year where the stars align and dog, earth and sky meet. MORE
Last Call
Last Call: July 24, 2021
Good evening, News Viewers! Hope all is well in your neck of the woods on this fine, but icky hot, Saturday evening. Not much going on in my world other than went car shopping with 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
Talk o Tuesday
Talko Tuesday: July 20, 2021
Six months ago today, President Biden officially kicked the Former Guy’s ass to the curb and ended the nightmare known as the Trump Error. So, what has President Biden been up to the last six MORE