My Soap Box

Since when does every pickup truck have four doors? And when did we stop talking on phones and start text messaging on them? Why does our television entertainment, a device to escape reality now seem devoted to reality programming? Now, the evening news is dominated by starlets behaving badly.... Sign in to see full entry.

The blame or credit goes to Nanaroo. Her stories of flying brought back that familiar yearning to take to the sky. Today our town held it’s annual Washington Pilot’s Association fly-in breakfast at the Colville, Washington airport. The attraction, of course is the airplanes, featuring many antique... Sign in to see full entry.

It seems we do everything on-line these days. Shopping for shoes, cars, husbands, wives or junk jewelry. Whatever you need, you can probably find it on E-Bay and not always at a bargain. You can check out whether that twinge of pain in your knee is kwackinson’s disease or distemper. You can go to... Sign in to see full entry.

New Year’s Eve 1969 – 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York must have been a good time. An experience, if you will. And there were changes to be sure. That was the night the album Band Of Gypsys was recorded. If you’re not familiar with it, the players were none other than Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles... Sign in to see full entry.

It’s everywhere. Credit card companies, the internet and gullible people make it possible for people to steal your identity and ruin you. What can you do to protect yourself? Be careful about giving out personal information, particularly over the web. Never give personal information in response to... Sign in to see full entry.

Finally, a movie I can heartily recommend. By now, we have all seen the trailers and ads so many times we think the movie revolves around a Rubik’s Cube. The exasperating toy merely serves as a metaphor to life, it’s not easy but with repeated attempts it can be done. This is a story of dogged... Sign in to see full entry.

Philosophy is one of those areas of study that one can get a degree in, but how much demand is there for philosophers? Customer in the express line at the supermarket: Say, you’ve got way more than 10 items, what are you doing in this line anyway. What makes some people think rules are not meant for... Sign in to see full entry.

What is a memory? How is it made? Where are my car keys? Modern science, for all it’s horsepower cannot tell us what the human mind is, nor why it works the way it does. Oh sure, they know there are neurons, synapses and all sorts of gray matter, but just how it works is a gray area the size of the... Sign in to see full entry.

Pay attention now, I’m about as serious as I ever get. First, I am a veteran, having served in the Air Force from 1965 through 1969. I have received veteran’s benefits including medical and a veteran’s loan, along with assistance with tuition when I attended Spokane Community College after I... Sign in to see full entry.

TV wrestling exposed as flim-flam? Suddenly, everyone wakes up to the fact TV wrestling is a bunch of crap! I know a lot of you like it and that’s your right after all, since I assume you know it’s all fake. Well, not the Olympic style wrestling, but hey, they never break chairs over each other’s... Sign in to see full entry.