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For those reading at some distance, Fayetteville isn’t a village; it’s some 70,000-plus people in a metropolitan statistical area of a good quarter million. Still the overall architecture is short. There are a number of four-five story buildings. The main hotel, once a Hilton (once a Hilton always a Hilton, nyah nyah nyah) and now […]
This is an emergency broadcast of the Emergency Broadcast System. There is about to be a terrific storm in your area. Terrific meaning biblically terrible to you, your roof and your car. Terrific for us back in the studio, well, means terrific. We sit back and watch cool video shot by foolhardy amateurs. That scares […]
Tuesday, my poem was my wife’s. Now, she said she didn’t mind if I share this sonnet. I Have Your Number Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Thirteen never has been an unlucky number for me, I have neither lucky nor unlucky ones, so far as I can recall. As fortunes appear clearest in retrospect, those […]
What’s so wrong with anachronisms? Newspapers only feel archaic to me when I explain to someone how the papers gets out even in the worst ice storms, such as we had earlier this month. It’s a litany I know well: Lines about deadlines and preventing bottlenecks and logjams (ugh) that can happen at any link […]
In today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (March 20), this brief on 6B, further condensed here: “The Arkansas Senate will spend about $185,000 to renovate offices for six senators and six staff members, the Senate Efficiency Committee decided Wednesday. “Walls will be built from the ceiling to the floor so [six] senators who now have cubicles … can […]
There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part I. Here is Part II. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Chalk Line There’s a joke that […]