Current national and global events.
Rodents must be multilingual to survive in New York City, but they are prone to mistakes, too. Here’s the latest: NEW YORK — A dozen rats were caught on video scurrying around the floor of a New York City KFC/Taco Bell restaurant early today, running between counters and tables and climbing on children’s high chairs.” […]
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 […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Want to fall off a tightrope, jeopardize all chances of a future, and get high, permanent placement in the Patriot Act no fly list? Say loudly (or online) that as an American you find Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s criticism of U.S. foreign policy gets many points right.If the prime minister […]
OK. Maybe it is a brilliant political maneuver, new Gov. Mike Beebe’s vow to cut the sales tax on groceries in Arkansas. It has given him several advantages. Meanwhile, the state is among the poorest in the Union, and reducing even an inherently unfair tax will tax what feeble services Arkansas manages to offer: education, […]
The reportage dichotomy keeps coming up. Who’s in charge: the people in the article or the people creating the article? How about a few terse examples, with questions we can consider over lunch. As noted yesterday, a school stopped what it called a gang initiation. In it local officials again say real gangs — just […]