Good Morning Friends from across Locals! You Digital Neighbors frequenting Padre's, The Bigots, Fascinating People and Triggeratti that hustle & bustle around the Triggernometry, Phamily, Phriends and the Dawn Patrol that joined the circus at Phetasy and finally the Refugees that rode the wave out of Big Tech and gave life to the idea of Locals at Rubin Report. Love you all!
While I choose not visit Malice and Scott Adams, I do support their efforts. I watch enough of their content and it seems only just to offer something in appreciation. I have sampled the Gutter, visited Tulsi and Timpf, tried out New Discourses and the Babylon Bee and often see other communities that look so inviting and promising, but one only has so much time. Not enough time to be a member and usually not enough funds to be a supporter, but I do appreciate the gathering of like minded creators that Locals has brought together.
The internet offers us a unique experience of friendship with people we may never meet in person but have already experienced some of their character and personality. I don't think they are any less real that meeting in person, just more difficult and slower moving because we cannot see the non-verbal's and nuances that form interpersonal communication in person. However, we have all met and have been in relationships with others where the only things connecting them was geographical proximity. Not a very human experience of friendship or community, we have an spatial relationship with everything else, 99.9% of which are just things. Critters and people are different, and not even all critters, it is hard to say one has an emotional bond with a reptile, but maybe it is possible. Anyways, on to some thoughts about friendship, one of my favorite topics. You don't need many, but most of us benefit from a few close ones.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over. - James Boswell
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. - President George Washington
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. - Thomas Fuller
SNOLLYGOSTER - A dishonest, corrupt, and unprincipled person, especially a politician. 19th Century American Slang.
And finally, an Autumn Hillside along one of the river roads in MO. Happy Sunday to all of my Locals Neighbors and Friends! A busy day at the parish with our Sausage Dinner, I'll be posting photos over at Padre's.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
Happy National Megalodon Day all! May your National Foam Party Day celebrations be free of gigantic marine predators!
It's also National Adopt a Cat and National Pollinators month. May your new feline friends leave the apiary alone.
Padre - Tom Miller invites you to a Coffee Talk, Speakeasies, Schmoozes, Tea Times, Afterhours and other gatherings.
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2026 Coffee Talk with the ADD Irregulars
Thursday, January 1, 2026
6:00 AM - 8:00 AM (CST)
Occurs every day starting 1/1 until 12/31/2027
Coffee Talk - Daily beginning at 6:00 AM Central Time Zone - USA
White Pilled Wednesday - A break from the heaviness of news and current events to focus upon things more personal & positive for the first hour of Coffee Talk.
Afternoon Chats - Most Tuesday, Friday & Sundays 2:00 PM Central
Other chats as posted in the community.
Don’t argue with people over sixty.
Just don’t.
It’s not just an age; it’s a masterclass in survival.
They grew up without Google, without DoorDash, without therapy podcasts, and without an "undo" button. If something broke, they grabbed duct tape, WD-40, a hammer, and a look of sheer determination that made even the broken appliance second-guess itself.
As kids, they knew exactly what kind of mood their mom was in just by the sound of how hard she slammed the cast-iron skillet onto the stove.
They were the original latchkey kids — walking home from middle school with a house key tied around their neck, with strict orders to heat up lunch and not burn the kitchen down. By the time they were ten, they could bike to the corner store, buy a gallon of milk for the neighbor, feed the family dog, and still have time to play freeze tag in the yard until dark.
Their knees were a permanent canvas of scrapes, bruises, Mercurochrome, and rubbing alcohol. Their universal first-aid kit was just ...
