Current national and global events.
I don’t know about you, but when I was growing up during the first administration of the second Bush, I was taught that John Ashcroft was the anti-attorney general. Both his foes and his supporters seemed to agree that he was a proud religious-right zealot in terms of God-first, Constitution-maybe, and the remaining job description […]
(Gunky being the term for the particular mental illness in the family of the dead husband of the protagonist in Stephen King’s Lisey’s Story. I picked its CD version for the commute thinking it was King’s fully formed portrait of a resourceful woman who survives a challenging life, and it is, but her challenges include […]
Let us praise World Bank prez Paul Wolfowitz, not Clintonize him. The Wall Street Journal and other leading news media report that the former Pentagon official has steered his close female friend Shaha Riza to a good job down at the store, not to mention security clearance. Did someone say clearance, as in sale? Wolfowitz […]
We go around on things like this, My Beloved and I: Consumer Reports likes the Great Value ground decaf. Not the whole bean and not the regular coffee, where the magazine prefers Eight O’Clock whole bean. The Wal-Mart house brand Great Value in other foods seems very much like the more expensive name brands. Then […]
As a ranking official of the Arkansas Contrarian Liabilities Union, it pains me to have to defend ranking rank conservative commentator Coulter. There is a move to have her syndicate, Universal Press, drop her newspaper column. Ann Coulter in a speech (not a TV commentary or published essay) called a Democratic presidential candidate a homosexual […]
“An illustration Sunday with a story about the McClellan-Kerr waterway incorrectly showed the angles of the gates when closed and the position of the lower gate when open.” “A story in Monday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette incorrectly called President Bush a Republic when he actually is 1/298 millionth of a Republic.” “A photo caption in Tuesday editions […]