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Time Magazine’s selection of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as 2015 Person of the Year is fascinating.. It shows the magazine still heeds that this award is not for popularity nor just for Yankees. It’s for the person who’s been, what, the biggest newsmaker of the calendar year. Its cover story profiling Merkel proves the point. […]
Shy of a Load It’s December, and for a month I’ve avoided writing about the state of national politics. Other blog-columnists are doing a good job. I’d do fine, but I have nothing to add that’s different. Until today? Yes, as it’s not me opining. This is reporting. I was at my barber’s this morning. He and I […]
Shy of a Load The Nov. 8 Saturday Night Live, hosted by magnate Donald Trump, was more significant than hilarious, although it was lots funnier than most weekend pundits claim. A scan of website headlines shows mine is a minority view. I have not read their texts yet to prevent their influencing mine. The first review for me […]
“Forget Biden, drop HRC & Bernie. Maybe we need a Draft Gore for ’16 movement. Maya Lin’s enviro concerns inspired that impulse.” BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The above was my Facebook post from just after a lecture Monday night by artist-architect-environmentalist Maya Lin (the descriptives are hers). Mind you, Lin said absolutely nothing about politics nor former Vice President […]
Shy of a Load Joe Biden appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, in the show’s debut week. Most main media reports and commentaries seemed to agree this morning that the vice president was favoring not running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, but that his decision was not set. As an example here’s […]
Shy of a Load The City Wire in “Citing Privacy and Protection, UA-Fayetteville Prohibits Drone Use over Campus” joins other news media and social media in ricocheting the University of Arkansas’ news release that “unmanned aircraft systems” such as drones as of now may not be flown over campus without approval (“prior approval” though that’s redundant). The […]