Welcome to Free Range, our new weekly open thread about animals; this week THE story is Texas and surrounding areas and its animal inhabitants who are cold and colder. What started as a rare cold MORE
As I typed in the date, I just realized, we’re almost three months into 2021 and what a year it’s been thus far. A few things that affect all of us that I’m thankful for MORE
The Friday 5:00 happy hour is provided for you as a means to relax and alleviate the stress of the week. While this is often suggested as a place to partake of a cocktail, beer, MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, and it is a happy one despite the usual bad and insane news. What are you talking about, you may ask? I refer to yesterday’s landing of the Mars Rover Perseverance MORE
Happy Presidents Day, a great day to start our new Monday Free Chat dedicated to animals, pets or wild, and I’m celebrating animals back in the White House, especially the newest addition, a cat named MORE
I’m over impeachment; we all knew the results before the trial even began so, it should not shock any of us that forty-three, craven, spineless Republicans voted to acquit the FORMER (he hates that label!) MORE
What a Friday! What a week! We made it through. I know I need some Distance from this horrific moment in America’s history, some time to reconnect with the world outside of the outrageous theater MORE
These are the times that try men and women’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their country, but everyone who stands with MORE
Oh, Spring Fever is so delightful. I know, many of you have snow up to your eyeballs right now and I’m really not trying to rub salt into your frostbitten wounds; I’m just saying Spring MORE
A great question was raised this morning in light of the current snow globe atmosphere slamming the Great Lakes region, including my own back yard. Is this Phil’s fault? Or is it the fault of MORE
Happy Friday, News Viewers, how are we all doing? We talk daily about this time in our history — It’s obvious after a few million years, humans haven’t changed; we’re no worse and we’re no MORE
Sure, I’ve exhaled. I’m not worried so much about “what the hell did he break or screw up now? I’m kind of liking boring. But, in only one month, we’ve seen an attempted coup that MORE
Today’s Happy Hour research has led me to find that President Biden is a teetotaler. He says that one of his favorite uncles was a heavy drinker, and therefore chose to avoid it. The majority MORE
Good Morning, peeps! If you’ve been bored all week watching Joe do damage control like a zen-master, then you might feel as if you need a little inspiration. And coffee. No conspiracy theories here, no MORE
Last week, the day before the inauguration, we featured letters/notes to FORMER ‘president’ Trump letting him know just what we think of the White Supremacist in Chief. Now that President Biden has been in office MORE
For the first time in several years, we can now exhale. We can feel our blood pressure lower and just breathe a sigh of relief because it’s over. The nightmare known as Trump is over; MORE
As “dem Trumps” have vacated Washington, there’s one fantastic benefit we may have overlooked. We no longer have to stand for Trump women hogging the fashion spotlight in their pretentious, vulgar couture. Enter Bernie Sanders MORE
“The Hill We Climb” by Amanda Gorman, Inaugural Poem, January 20, 2021 When day comes we ask ourselves Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, A sea we must MORE
As we have said in the past, ByeDon, it’s time to really say, Bye Don! So, I thought it would be kind of fun and liberating to write the #WorstPresidentEver a note telling him, bye. MORE
Only a few more days…just four..and the White Supremacist in Chief will be out of the People’s House. We suffered four long years through this nightmare, which resulted in nearly 400K dead Americans because the MORE
Trump walks into a bar…….and immediately lowers it. Ugh……Did he have to lower it this far? These MAGAholics need their next pub crawl squashed and sent directly to the MAGAdrunk-tank. Thanks to the MAGApandemic, raging MORE
Friday AGAIN? Last Friday we were trying to make sense of a “riot” which became an insurrection, premeditated, planned, complete with a violent mob, complicit law enforcement and accessories in the Legislature. Since then, the MORE
It seems like everyone resembles a pressure cooker these days; just waiting to release their steam at PSI levels never been seen or released by mere mortals. So, I’m asking and channeling my inner Michelle MORE
What a week it has been. Never in my lifetime did I ever think I would see a bunch of ignorant and violent half-wits storm our nation’s Capitol Building. But then again, I never thought MORE
Nothing could be better than kicking back on a Friday night, fluffing the couch pillows and grabbing your favorite lap throw, and settling in to watch more about a fine group of domestic terrorists attempting MORE