Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good Thursday morning and Happy Veterans Day, a day when our infamous Postmaster General Louis DeJoy can’t take the blame for your undelivered mail. Welcome to Coffee Talk where we can generally shoot the breeze MORE
Free Chat
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning and welcome to Thursday at NewsViews and Coffee Talk, where we can shoot the breeze, chew the fat, blather or bloviate on the topics of your choice. It’s a free chat zone, designed MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Another Thursday at Coffee Talk is here, so grab your cup and join us for some coffee, tea, Diet Coke, or whatever reawakens you to another morning of chatting freely and solving world problems. At MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, and welcome to Coffee Talk, NewsViewers. Bring your oatmeal, muffins, avocado toast, cold leftover pizza – whatever is your breakfast vibe – and join us for what we do best here at NewsViews MORE
Coffee Talk
Coffee Talk
Good morning, NewsViewers, welcome back to another edition of Coffee Talk, where you can wake up with us regardless of your level of divine caffeination. Once again, you’ve entered a free chat zone, where it’s MORE
The Lounge
Coffee Talk
Good morning, and welcome to Coffee Talk, NewsViews’ newest “free chat” forum, where you’re encouraged to grab a mug of whatever might be your go-to wake-up beverage and join us for some chatting. This will MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Welcome to Happy Hour at the NewsViews Lounge on a fantastic October afternoon! It’s been one of the most beautiful times of year here in my Midwestern back yard, with so many, many days of MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
The seasons are changing, as denoted by the changing theme of the NewsViews home page. The days get shorter, the light rays get longer, and are soon to be featured dappling through the trees, drawing 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
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
Things got real this week when Joe Biden gave the country the “dad talk” about the resisters who are wearing us out and making us sick, literally and figuratively. This minority of self-described “patriots” forget MORE
It's 5:00 Somewhere
It’s 5:00 Somewhere
It’s Labor Day weekend already, so I believe that officially makes it Pumpkin Spice Season, amirite? I admit I pulled out a cookie mix — Betty Crocker/Pillsbury? — and baked some up in the air 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
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
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
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
The Lounge
Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
Good morning, NewsViewers! Rise and shine– wakey-wakey, eggs ‘n’ bakey! It’s time for another week of news, and another week to share your views of the news. Hopefully you are fully re-charged after the weekend. MORE
The Lounge
Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
Good Monday Moanin’ NewsViewers, and welcome to another week of “living the dream” in our pandemic world. Part of a busy weekend meant having to run a few errands to the local hardware store and MORE
The Lounge
Free Chat: Monday Moanin’
News Views has tried to provide a free chat outlet for Mondays, and apologies for the late entry……….but here’s a spot to exercise your First Amendment freedumbs. Whether you want to talk about the weather, MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 15
Happy Friday, Viewers of News, and welcome to week 15 of 2021, another Friday of opening up your morning news for a glimpse of what occurred overnight. Let me just say, after seeing more of MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 1
Out with the old and in with the new? Uh, not so fast…. seems our downhill slide isn’t over yet. . .. Happy Friday, News Viewers . . . ., another day closer to the MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 53
Goodbye 2020, Hello 2021. . . . Time to celebrate….. 2021: A story that hasn’t been written. I wonder what it will say when all is said and done? Today on Jan. 1 we start MORE
Free Chat Friday
Happy Holidays, 2020; Free Chat Friday, Week 52
Happy Friday, News Viewers, Christmas Day, 2020. . . . .Before long, we’ll be saying Happy New Year’s Eve, Happy New Years Day 2021; then Happy Inauguration Day, 2021. If we thought the Inauguration would MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday
Happy Friday, News Viewers. Here are a few cartoons to remind us what we’ve been through this year. For every one there were hundreds more; it’s no wonder we’re all traveling between hope, dread, exhaustion, MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 49
Happy Friday News Viewers, it’s Friday already and it’s Friday finally, because that’s how time is marching on during this period in our history. Every day is too short and too long, every day crawls MORE
Free Chat Friday
Free Chat Friday, Week 48
Happy Friday, News Viewers, on this day after Thanksgiving 2020, and I have to say, this may go down as one of my favorite Thanksgivings, and I couldn’t be more surprised. . . . I MORE