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Falling into the bloggers’ venue of commenting on every darn thing is not the plan of Brick, but when everyone’s doing it? Topic: The 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner’s keynote address by satirist Stephen Colbert. I had not been a major fan of the new series The Colbert Report (pronounced unctuously Colbere Rapport), much preferring […]
For those reading at some distance, Fayetteville isn’t a village; it’s some 70,000-plus people in a metropolitan statistical area of a good quarter million. Still the overall architecture is short. There are a number of four-five story buildings. The main hotel, once a Hilton (once a Hilton always a Hilton, nyah nyah nyah) and now […]
This is an emergency broadcast of the Emergency Broadcast System. There is about to be a terrific storm in your area. Terrific meaning biblically terrible to you, your roof and your car. Terrific for us back in the studio, well, means terrific. We sit back and watch cool video shot by foolhardy amateurs. That scares […]
In today’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (March 20), this brief on 6B, further condensed here: “The Arkansas Senate will spend about $185,000 to renovate offices for six senators and six staff members, the Senate Efficiency Committee decided Wednesday. “Walls will be built from the ceiling to the floor so [six] senators who now have cubicles … can […]
The fellow killed while walking along the highway was 21-year-old Joseph Erin Hamley. He was not armed. He was retarded and had cerebral palsy. His mother said he put his hands in his pockets when nervous. Adam Lee Leadford, 18, was armed only with a can of pepper spray when he was wounded, according to […]
Northwest Arkansas can rest easily. But, no, it isn’t a good idea to walk around. Area law enforcement got the word that a prison escapee from Michigan might be in the area. Adam Lee Leadford, 18, got out of one of those boot camps for relatively young, relatively nondangerous offenders. Leadford last April (so he […]