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FRED FIRST: My Wee Musical Man-Cave
Digital Tones and Frets and Reeds: Oh My!A month ago this small room behind me was just my office. Now it is also my music room.I see this as...
SERWAN ZANGANA: FISA Continues to Allow Spying on American / Foreign Citizens
The U.S House and Senate voted to reauthorize the surveillance program, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
RANDY HUFF: Estate Sales, Letting Go, and Hope
I see the yard and trees and driveway through the window and I wonder if...
Roanoke Voters Will Need to Let The Current Council Out and A New Council In
What a surprise, another shooting on Sunday morning in Roanoke City! Indeed no, it is...
FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .
We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door
THE RECAPThe storyline...
DICK BAYNTON: Equality
It is a truism that every baby born into the world is equal to every other person in the world at the instant of...
JOY SYLVESTER JOHNSON: Gratitude For Love and Life
This Morning . . .I spend a moment each morning considering my own death. I know each day, each breath, brings me closer to...
MIKE KEELER: We All Need a Few More Jolts of Hot Sauce
If the day's news has got you down, what you need is a jolt of hot sauce.But first, some history. In the 1860's, Edmund...
DICK BAYNTON: Virtue & Victims
What is emerging in politics is counterfeit virtue and real victims. Virtue is now an intellectual commodity that can be mauled and manipulated into...
LUCKY GARVIN: The Return of The Smidge-miester
I have withheld telling this story for about six months. The occasion of my reticence is I didn’t know if he would survive the...
DICK BAYNTON: Sanctuary Jurisdictions
In year 2000 there were 11 sanctuary jurisdictions in the U.S., by 2009 there were 40 sanctuaries, by 2016, there were 338 and in...