My Soap Box

Hillary runs an ad touting her experience. Maybe you have seen this ad, released just for the upcoming primaries. It intones, and I am paraphrasing here, “there is a phone in the white house, when it rings at 3a.m……” The message of course, is Hillary has experience. In my warped way, I see the... Sign in to see full entry.

That’s what the headline said. It was in the financial section of the paper, so I can only guess they were talking about our stagnant economy that is threatening to go into inflation. Here’s the deal, all these brilliant economic minds have forgotten to take one thing into account, the baby boomers... Sign in to see full entry.

“This land was made for you and me.” This song just seems to reverberate through an audience and touch a nerve in all of us. I just heard Pete Seeger sing it on a PBS special with Woodie Guthrie who wrote it. I’m old enough to remember Pete and that tumultuous time commonly referred to as “the... Sign in to see full entry.

TV ads permeate our viewing experience. They also insult our intelligence almost every chance they can. Are we really expected to believe a truck company builds all these elaborate scaled-up erector sets to demonstrate their trucks on? I would get one of those trucks, ads or not, I think they are an... Sign in to see full entry.

The elusive eclipse slid by tonight, cradled in darkness, challenging the weary photographer to brave the chill air of a freezing northwest night. I drew a bead with my trusty camera and here is what I saw. Sometimes a longer shot can give as good a view, I like the stars that dropped by to see what... Sign in to see full entry.

Talk is cheap it has been said, yet talk makes money, so is it really cheap? We all take language for granted until we meet up with someone who does not speak our language. For the last two weeks, I have been working with a French Canadian. He speaks very good English, but I am constantly reminded... Sign in to see full entry.

Oh! The woes of automation. A pox that’s sweeping our nation. It’s wonderful when you have Windows Vista, it automatically updates itself, then to spare you precious time, it does it as it’s shutting down. The screen warns you not to power down or unplug your machine. However, when that message is... Sign in to see full entry.

I got my presidential primary ballot in the mail the other day. It’s odd, when you think of how they do things in the state of Washington. Maybe we’re trying to be like the other Washington, the one most often associated with the letters DC. What’s so odd, you might wonder, about a presidential... Sign in to see full entry.

Reports have it an unruly 1 st grader dropped his drawers and deposited a #2 on the floor and it was not a pencil! The teacher then scooped it up with a paper towel, put it in a baggie and placed it in the youngsters back pack. Now the teacher is on suspension. I can only wonder about what kind of... Sign in to see full entry.

Who wants to be president and why? Think about it, the world is in turmoil, wars are being waged nearly everywhere, the economy is in the toilet, Americas’ place as a world leader is slipping as our industry is ever more outsourced and the world appears to be on the brink of ecological disaster.... Sign in to see full entry.