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Re: “KFSM Chronicles: Separating the News from the Nonsense”
RE "Is that another way of saying that Obama is leading Romney in the polls? If so, why not say so?"
Because that would leave omit a significant bit of information.
My lovely wife and I watch Channel 5 news because the colors of the set (or "set") are less painfully garish than on other channels, and-- whatever you think of the newscast format-- Garrett Lewis is the best meteorologist we've seen outside of Wichita, Kansas. Plus, having an anchor with two first names is extra-friendly.
Re: “When the wealthy decide when poorer men and women should retire”
Good article. If you want to see a completely different slice of life, take a science field trip to Ozark Natural Foods-- it's like shopping in California. Of course, most of the shoppers there probably have little stake in the retirement age.
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RE "Afterwards, man then went to a friend’s house, where he killed himself."
I guess that renders the restraining order moot. Good for him.
Re: “Of Tony and Susan Alamo, and my later adventures with the folks from the Word Over the World cult”
For some unknown reason, I was on the Alamo Foundation's mailing list in 1981 and 1982. I received numerous tracts and occasional form letters about this, that and the other world-ending threat to sanctity and the Alamos' efforts to forestall doom. Once the Feds started investigating them for abducting and brainwashing healthy slave laborers-- I mean, adolescents-- I started getting large manila envelopes filled with sheaves of, ostensibly, testimonials from grateful parents and cult-- I mean, ministry-- members expressing gratitude to the Alamos and their ministry for turning lives around, rebuilding their families, and so on. They must have thought that nobody would notice that all of those numerous hand-written letters were penned by three or four people.
Not long after that, the mailings stopped.
Re: “UPDATES: Republican candidate Fuqua endorses death penalty for rebellious children”
It's a shame that Mr. Womack has said nothing about this. After all, he has real-life experience with a drug-dealing-- that is, rebellious-- child, and his perspective would be useful.
Re: “Tunnels beneath Fayetteville streets and the questions it just seems too rude to ask, in all our excitement”
RE "It seems sort of mean-spirited, I know, to raise these questions so early in the game"
The choice of tunnel, bridge or at-grade crossing has been a topic of public discussion since early June. The city solicited comments at public meetings, and also accepted public comments via an online form until June 22.
Re: “Fayetteville, Arkansas: The strangest idea for a grocery store in the world?”
RE "a grand experiment in grocery stores"
That store was called Sav-Mor. Apparently eliminating the letter "E" from their name cut their expenses.
As I recall, every item in their regular inventory was labeled as a generic-- plain black-and-white labels, text only. Some of the labels had consumer-friendly elaborations such as "Contents are certified to be of adequate quality."
They went pretty quickly from the price-it-yourself format to putting price tags on everything. They probably bought all of the old price guns and tape from IGA when they went digital. Alas, despite this cost-saving measure, they lasted only a few months.
Sav-Mor opend sometime in the summer of 1980. They kept a radio on in lieu of the more-expensive Muzak option. During the summer, much of the news on whatever station they tuned to consisted of "Who shot J.R.?" I seem to remember that I was at Sav-Mor when it was announced over the radio that Steve McQueen had died, so I guess they lasted into November 1980.
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Re: “The laziness of the Minimum, Wage Class . . . well, not so much, actually”
RE "What sort of intellectual bigot would call anyone who works at any of these jobs lazy?"
This bigotry has nothing to do with "intellectual". It's gut-driven.