The state of children today, declaims the curmudgeon. Here’s a clue from a recent outdoor wedding. Any more details, and some people will know where I was and who I mean. The bride and her mother arranged for flower petals to be spread down the middle of the center aisle — yes, between the folding […]
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PROM-E-NADE — The Pinnacle Hills Promenade Shopping Center opened Wednesday. Wanting to see the center, not the artifice of ribbon-cutting, and crowds that won’t be that big until the day after Thanksgiving, I’m here for an hour Thursday afternoon. Background here and here. Forget this joint on bustling weekends, too. Well unless there’s an exceptional […]
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Baseball Takes a Walk
The multipart sale-tax increase passed in Fayetteville on Tuesday. Those who love to taunt the city doubtless will mock the smaller percentage approving the bit for continued construction of trails, as compared to the 3-to-1 majorities for the sewage treatment and road improvements. Specifically, according to the NWA Times (and here) and The Morning News […]
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Blades, Rakes – Tools or Fools
In Sunday’s newspaper the columnist for the gubmint’s Master Gardener program (slogan: “No vegetable problem than can’t be solved with a chemical spray”) answers this question: Why are there so many mushrooms on lawns around town?” While the nice lady explains about fungus in three quick sentences, she senses that the reader surely does not […]
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Max Low for Depot, Lowe?
Let us now praise The Home Depot. It has won my heart for the next spell, by its stock, its helpful clerks, its new auto-checkout stands and not least, a consistent lack of crazy drivers in its parking lot. Yes, this is a prize that alternates with Loew’s. Every year or so, I am forced […]
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Picture postcard
Everybody has something to say about today, and what happened five years ago, today. Where is the numerology for the ninth month and eleventh day? Or the date of the first Trade Center attack. Or the hit on the USS Cole. Or the attack in Madrid. The one on London buses and subways. What would […]