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I don’t have a dog in this hunt so have only been occasionally splitting infinitives — no — have been reading about high-level discussions on whether Fayetteville needs a second high school. Having studied this morning’s account of a committee meeting, I realize that I wasn’t up on this because it’s impossible to follow. Try […]
*A line, near the end of The Music Man. I wasn’t the only one Saturday afternoon on Fayetteville’s Dickson Street to ask about the latest funereal Mardi Gras parade. A friend asked me the question, near the Walton Arts Center, before I had a chance to make my semiannual whine. An ally! Fayetteville in recent […]
There’s a reason why the University of Arkansas will take the rest of the year to find a replacement for Coach Frank Broyles as athletic director. Chancellor John White’s first choice fell through. I turned him down. Yep. Frank announced Friday, and by Sunday I let Johnny know. It was an easy decision for me. […]
We have yet another charity that we can help for pennies a day. Yes, friends for just over $1 a week, you can feed an Arkansas legislator’s soul. He or she will feel satisfied now and for two more years, for having fulfilled a campaign promise. You can keep the change, too. Gov. Mike Beebe […]
Briefly: The president said, most recently in this morning’s news conference, that Iran — officially or unofficially, maybe its government is behind it, knows about it, or knows-no-thing — is behind some weaponry used against U.S forces in Iraq. You know, Iran’s sometime rival, sometime enemy Iraq. Now we wait for the Senate. Will presidential […]
My good friend Robert C. Benchley, the genial humorist who died 12 years before I was born, told me over lunch today there actually is something he loathes, people who feel a need to speak on your behalf when you’re perfectly able to do so yourself. He notes that often times the irksome matter is […]