Be like Huck, Sen. Clinton: Hang in until the delegate count passes the point of no returns, when the opponent has that crystal majority of pledged delegate votes. Oh, that’s coming up soon, isn’t it. Republican campaign underdog and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Thursday [May 8, 2008] that Clinton should ignore critics pressuring [...]
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Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Four years ago Charlie Rose interviewed Garrison Keillor, who said something so provocative that for a detectable millisecond Rose was speechless, a rarity. Keillor of course was on promoting A Prairie Home Companion, but early on they discussed the just-ended 2004 election, where the progressive Keillor nailed John Kerry’s defeat and praised George II’s campaign [...]
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Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock DATELINE MIRTHOLOGY — The way to be left alone in Fayetteville’s Wilson Park is to mutter to no one in particular. It’s not a particularly small town, but if you do leave your house you often run into people you know. So look moderately troubled, other park patrons tend to [...]
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Dear Iowa: I know you a little. I’ve been visiting almost every year since 1991. You house my in-laws. A lot in common with Arkansas: Mainly rural. Your shape. A prominent capital city instead of a tucked-away one like Jeff City or Austin (that’s a little joke). You held on to your 19th-century populist style [...]
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Wednesday, December 12, 2007
DATELINE FAYETTEVILLE — Masons working overtime to install the fireplace at the University of Arkansas’ $2.77 million chancellor’s residence suffered singed eyebrows Tuesday night when the gas logs erupted into flame even though the line hadn’t been hooked up yet, and white smoke billowed from the chimney as high as Old Main: A Razorback football [...]
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Saturday, December 8, 2007
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock The athletic department of the University of Arkansas has become its own reality series, one where everyone is trapped in a house or on a desert island, or maybe at the same time one of those talent shows, the one with dancers or the one with singers. Athletic directors moving [...]
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
The medical science report of the hour talks about how many teenagers are teenagers. It’s not a happy statistic, that the number of teenage mothers has increased in the United States. The Associated Press article, though, has an interesting touch on the facts: The teen increase was based on the 15-19 age group, which accounted [...]
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Where do “they” come up with these numbers. The following made headlines just over a month ago, but something over the weekend brought it back to mind. This time I thought about it. There is a fact here, but the percentage is bunkum. If I’m missing the point, please, someone, set me straight. WASHINGTON — [...]
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
While the news last week has included the strike of the Writers Guild of America that began Monday the 5th, it hasn’t been the most important event. A new attorney general, the same Pakistani dictator, Congress for the first time in George II’s 6 1/2 years overrode one of his vetoes, gasoline is up and [...]
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
It never occurred to me to presume this, probably because I’m not a technophile. But here I sit with a new computer (waiting months for the Apple operating system update as a few pieces of both hardware and software on my blue 7-year-old iBook fail), and it asks if it can take my picture. This [...]
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