Speakers' Corner

This category is for more personal posts about the lives and interests of members at PlanetPOV

As landmark wedding anniversaries arise, the husbands' thoughts may turn nostalgically to the amount of hair they had in their wedding photos, the lovingly...
Here is a little ammunition and something to think about the next time you hear that raising taxes on "business" will stop them from hiring or squash their ability or willingness to invest or to upgrade their equipment or infrastructure.
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry. Muriel Rukeyser Poetry, in  a sense, is the art of making nothing mean something. Famed French poet and playwright, Jean Cocteau once...
Will China Survive a contraction?
Charlie Sheen: I'm totally aware of my tongue right now.   Andrea Canning: I'm sorry?   Charlie Sheen: Like.... I want to taste an orange, ya...
I watched Dances With Wolves again last night.  Has it really been 21 years?  Costner and McDonnell have aged a bit since then.  Boy,...
While Australia is my home of choice, and I love her dearly, I was born in and spent my first half century (was 51...
Describing and enacting a rational and balanced Employee Incentive plan that will result in a self-running business.
Is housekeeping a pain in the ass? Do you feel guilty when you let it go until tomorrow? Do you keep stuff...
I reject your reality and substitute my own.

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