http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/06/23/saturday-night-live Comments On: Saturday night live by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by RYD]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:32:31 -0500 Arkansas Times
It's kinda like that fellow who was told that rabbit pellets were smart pills. After eating a couple, he said, "These are nothing but rabbit pellets." "See, you're smarter already!"

Posted by SkyPilot]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:12:13 -0500 Arkansas Times
T.S. Eliot says, "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

And the Zen proverb, "Chop wood, carry water" seems like a good path to enlightenment.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:55:11 -0500 Arkansas Times
ho de anexetastos bios ou biôtos anthrôpôi — ὁ δὲ ἀνεξέταστος βίος οὐ βιωτὸς ἀνθρώπῳ

or, for the linguistically challenged: The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being. --Socrates

The ball is in your court.

I'll be back after church.
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 07:42:39 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/23/v…

Clueless Benedict thinks a former Faux news employee can clean up their PR problems by "shaping the message, molding the message, and trying to make sure everyone remains on-message." Whatever happened to just telling the truth?
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:55:59 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=playe…

Apparently one of Mittster's favorite pranks is pushing faces into plates of food. Get it? It's so funny to the RMoney scions that they are continuing the tradition with their own offspring. Scions also report that dad isn't keen on being the butt of their jokes.

Why are you not ROTFLYAO?
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:46:43 -0500 Arkansas Times
One department head says"What's happening at other kinds of institutions around the country is now coming home to roost in higher education."

Quite a few years ago, I read some hand wringing about corporate control of higher ed. because so many colleges and universities are dependent on corporations for research grant money. The money does not arrive without strings attached.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/24/u…
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:32:55 -0500 Arkansas Times For what it's worth, it's been a pleasure to communicate with thinking people who care about issues, and can discuss them without arguing even when we disagree. Thanks, bloggers.
Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 06:30:00 -0500 Arkansas Times
The Darlenes were all rooting for her and I waved every time I got near a camera!

Caught up with many old friends at the Beverly Hilton.

None older than Barbara Walters, looking recently refreshed. The question at our table was exactly what's the cutoff age for further work? One knowledgeable beauty (66 but still plays 45 on a soap) authoritatively offered, "Eighty-five. Janet de Cordova. 'Course, it was in Mexico. Where she lived as the guest of her former maid and housekeeper after Freddie died. They'll do anything in Mexico."

No one knew who Mary Ann Gunn was or had seen her show, forestalling their sharing in her moment of glory as fully as I, familiar as I am with the REAL heartbreak behind the robes and smile: a mousy nobody coming from nothing by way of Fayetteville, Arkansas; barred from practicing there; now embraced by the warm and eager hearts of Hollywood, at least that segment of Tinseltown largely unfollowed by paparazzi because more suited to syndicated daytime reality strips on TV than Big Screen status; strutting and fretting her radiant hour upon the stage in triumph with her award-winning first show!

The mouse that roared!

Mary Ann, too, looked suspiciously refreshed compared to the woman I met in Burbank last fall. That southern California air and climate!

Janet de Cordova died five years after her last lift, whatshername somberly related, prompted by her considered perception that we cared, and cared deeply.


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 02:40:47 -0500 Arkansas Times
http://www.americablog.com/2012/06/gop-her…


Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sun, 24 Jun 2012 01:42:19 -0500 Arkansas Times
Yes, Daphne, and fat chance, Daphne.

http://www.americablog.com/2012/06/did-jus…

Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:41:34 -0500 Arkansas Times
Two faces of our Supreme Court: Corporations have unlimited free speech even when shareholders disagree

unions, not so much.

Professor Benjamin Sachs explains the two-faced nature in his article on Knox v. SEIU, and notes the Court has no problem exercising activism.

http://afjjusticewatch.blogspot.com/2012/0…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:31:10 -0500 Arkansas Times
Smith's Alternative Arkansas History on this date:
--compiled by Stephen Smith, PhD

23-Jun 1900 Birthdate of John Roy Steelman at Thornton. Sociology professor and White House Chief of Staff 1946-1953.

23-Jun 1933 Marvin “Buck” Barrow robs the R. L. Brown Grocery Market, 111 W Lafayette, Fayetteville; drives south on U.S. 71 and fatally shoots Alma Marshal Henry D. Humphrey in gun battle.

23-Jun 1959 Capital Citizens Council holds closed meeting in the Skyway of the Lafayette Hotel, reminding members that they must show card to be admitted.

23-Jun 2001 Jill Conner Browne speaks at the Arkansas Bar Association convention and signs copies of her books Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love and God Save the Sweet Potato Queens.

23-Jun 1935 State drops charges of anarchy against Horace Bryan and barratry against Claude Williams from FERA strike in Fort Smith.

23-Jun 1936 Editorial in Earle Enterprise praises effect of flogging on reducing union agitation in cotton pickers strike.

23-Jun 1944 E.W. St. John of Mena, citing radio regulation, told Arkansas Press Association at Hot Springs if trend continues, freedom of the press "will be something that we once heard about."

23-Jun 1945 The original manuscript of "Tom Sawyer" and 68 Mark Twain letters owned by Fred W. Allsopp are sold for inclusion in an exhibit of Twain items in the Missouri state Capitol.

23-Jun 1985 Ray Charles performs at Robinson Auditorium.

23-Jun 1990 Betsey Wright elected chairman and executive director of the Democratic Party of Arkansas.

23-Jun 2000 Argus Properties, developer of the Kohl's Store at the Steele Crossing development, cuts 50 trees after approval when the City of Fayetteville violated its own tree protection and preservation ordinance.

23-Jun 2000 Dr. Carolyn Henderson Allen named Director of Libraries at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

23-Jun 2003 Rep. Keven Anderson of Rogers, sponsor of a recent pornography law, said it wouldn't affect mainstream literature. Rod Lorenzen, Little Rock, called it "just another goofy attempt to censor me"
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 19:28:00 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by ozarkrazo]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 18:17:47 -0500 Arkansas Times Article:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Most-…
http://bit.ly/NhPs67
Report:
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/…
http://bit.ly/MbgCvO

It won't be long before rivers burn, water wells are toxic, rain is acid, and smog is considered a clear day.
Posted by YossarianMinderbinder]]> Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:14:07 -0500 Arkansas Times