My Soap Box

Families perched on tanks, three-year-olds waving flags. Men on camels and horses riding into a crowd both sides intent on bodily harm. Mubarak supporters lashing out at journalists saying, “we hate you” but giving no specifics as to why, other than the “media” do not see their guy as a knight in... Sign in to see full entry.

There are classic cars, classic rock and classic clothes. Museum grade stuff brings admiring stares from the onlookers. My son points out the hidden gas filler cap behind the left hand tail light of a 1956 Chevrolet Bel-Air convertible parked in my uncle’s garage to his girlfriend. She is in awe. I... Sign in to see full entry.

Scams are everywhere these days, on the internet, trying to suck the money out of your bank cards and intruding on you at home over the phone lines. So how can we, the ordinary citizen, prevent those who would avail themselves of our funds without so much as a drop of sweat on their brow from doing... Sign in to see full entry.

A space/western/sci-fi TV series that was made into a movie is what this is, although it is generally difficult to describe, if you watch it you will see. The creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, Joss Whedon was the brain trust behind this odd story. It is set in the year 2517 and... Sign in to see full entry.

Who says we have to be bitchin’ here all the time? Opinions, after all can be on any subject and I have a brand new opinion that I would like to share with you. Do you like the blues? Do you like rock? Do you like jazz? Do you like watching someone play the guitar as if their fingers had some kind... Sign in to see full entry.

A Martin Luther King day bombing attempt along a march for diversity in Spokane Washington last Monday has the entire area reeling, save for a few mental midgets who perpetrated the attempt. Sharp-eyed workers spotted a backpack on a park bench and alerted the authorities who rendered the bomb... Sign in to see full entry.

Hey big time, why don’t you meet me face to face and then try to explain what you wanted to accomplish with this most cowardly act. By now, most of you have probably heard that on Martin Luther King Day, a bomb was found along the scheduled parade route in downtown Spokane Washington state. It was... Sign in to see full entry.

What a fitting time to discover this song, so great in it’s performance and meaning. If it doesn’t make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, well I don’t know what. Listen, watch and learn, we should all have a dream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UccVUT8Q988 Sign in to see full entry.

I woke up in a parallel universe. How do I know it’s a parallel universe and not some obtuse universe? It has to be parallel because everything around me looks just the same, I however, am not. It started with a pain in my butt. Not my kids, they all left home a long time ago and are developing... Sign in to see full entry.

This day the Earth went cold, silence ruled all lands. People are stunned, they don’t know what to do next. Normally, they would have looked up things like recipes, ingredients, restaurants or even grocery store addresses, but not today, today the world wide web collapsed and went silent. No one... Sign in to see full entry.