I’ve heard people say that human beings are the only creatures that know they will die.
You can attend a town hall in Snoqualmie from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, April 18 at Snoqualmie Library, 7824 Center Blvd. SE, to talk about how the Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy monies should be spent during the next six years.
Like Teddy Daniels, a former candidate for Pennsylvania lieutenant, who is prominently featured in a series of doomsday, deep-fake ads on Facebook and Youtube.
While Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) continues to investigate the March 27 Tolt Dam false alarm, it has been confirmed that Federal Signal — one of SPU’s vendors — is to blame.
I could call up any large chain store in a city and talk to someone without being told to call corporate ownership on the other side of the country.
As the poet Theodore Roethke once wrote: “In a dark time the eye begins to see…”
Cartoon by Roy Rand
“Learn a new language and get a new soul.”
I have said and done many things of which I am not proud. That is, I am no golden bird cheeping about human frailties from some high branch of superhuman understanding.
It is not a matter of pay. A welder with basic skills now averages $47,000 a year with good benefits. Those who complete further training and gather job-site experience can earn more than $100,000 annually.
I have always considered it a strength, not a weakness, to consult with people with whom we vehemently disagree.
Of course there’s irony here in that LinkedIn is asking writers — who, after all, make their living by writing — to help “educate” a technology that would automate their jobs.
Cartoon by Roy Rand
