What’s so wrong with anachronisms? Newspapers only feel archaic to me when I explain to someone how the papers gets out even in the worst ice storms, such as we had earlier this month. It’s a litany I know well: Lines about deadlines and preventing bottlenecks and logjams (ugh) that can happen at any link […]
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 […]
There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part I. Here is Part II. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Chalk Line There’s a joke that […]
There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part I. Here is Part III. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Party Line I went on the […]
There are three parts to this consideration. Here is Part II. Here is Part III. The subject is the Bring the Troops Home from Iraq march and rally of Saturday afternoon, March 11, 2006. Both papers estimated 500 people attended, which is a lot. Here is a decent recap. Cut in Line I didn’t want […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock Now, there’s any number of articles about one of my heroes, Art Buchwald. Here is one, written by a friend, just a couple of weeks ago. Mr. Buchwald is dying, by choice. He’s well past 80, and his body is shutting down, he knows it and is refusing treatment. The […]