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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Safe to walk the streets

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Northwest Arkansas can rest easily. But, no, it isn’t a good idea to walk around. Area law enforcement got the word that a prison escapee from Michigan might be in the area. Adam Lee Leadford, 18, got out of one of those boot camps for relatively young, relatively nondangerous offenders. Leadford last April (so he [...]

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Milk fails the Pepsi Challenge

Tuesday, March 7, 2006

We in Arkansas are proud of our governor, Mike Huckabee. It’ll be a shame to lose him to term limits in 2 1/2 years, as he has grown in office even in the eyes of progressive sorts. He went from being a rigid Republican and a member of the evangelical right — he’s an ordained [...]

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Vonnegut back on top

Friday, March 3, 2006

Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Today’s title is A Man Without a Country, by Kurt Vonnegut, 2005, Seven Stories Press. I got through this volume’s 146 pages in only a part of an evening. I read the sections willy-nilly, and I didn’t care (quite unlike my habit). It didn’t matter, although the essays and sketches [...]

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