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Maybe in Arkansas it is still possible to ignore the future, but as Jim said in another thread paraphrasing Bob Dylan, times are changing.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:11:56 -0600 Arkansas Times
Show your gold, sweetheart! The ‘Dores are bowl-bound!
Posted by Durango]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:57:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbfgmorIGE
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:47:16 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by SkyPilot]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 20:25:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Mean Gene]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:55:41 -0600 Arkansas Times
Lord a’mighty, Mrs. Sissy Belle! What d’ya think about THAT, huh?

And what IF Mississippi State pulls a fast one on LSU (game in progress) tonight?

And what IF your ‘Dores slip past Old Myth (game in progress) this evening?

And, lordymercy, what IF your War Eagle somehow manages to surprise Georgia (game in progress) this wild and crazy Saturday night?

Any one of those and — Wooo-Weee! Stop this upside-down world, I wanna get off!
Posted by Durango]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:33:45 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfN_gcjGoJo
Posted by Doc]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:12:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Jake da Snake]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:03:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:02:37 -0600 Arkansas Times Vulgarism just spells you and ELwood, doesn't it?
Posted by shooter]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:47:10 -0600 Arkansas Times
I suppose you're wise enough to appreciate that you can keep a strong work ethic going inasmuch that the alternative ain't too pleasant. I'm assuming you're doing volunteer work for some type of non-profit. Good on you.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:40:23 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/up…

A cartoon for Cato.
Posted by the outlier]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:32:16 -0600 Arkansas Times 'Tuscaloser' tonight! Late game nterception at the 5 yd line seals the deal for Texas A&M.
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:20:48 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Sound Policy]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:15:37 -0600 Arkansas Times
When they go, uh, missing.

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-showing-calif-wo…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:12:59 -0600 Arkansas Times
And I hope you don't interpret my tardy response as an indication of lack or interest or appreciation.

I appreciated your words of welcome about three or four days ago, but they were already two days old when I read them.

Here's a brief explanation for now, and for future reference: I'm only semi-retired, in an unofficial and loose sense. I spend about 20-30 hours/week in a private, independent voluntary service project. I don't have to punch a clock, but when there's work to do, I'm morally obligated to do it. And I'm subject to working at any given hour of day or night--mainly because I'm a small-scale insomniac.

Therefore I'm usually late getting to the blog, so others have already said about all I'd want to say, and/or the thread has already gone to sleep. And, of course, since I don't live in the Little Rock or the NWA area, I have no conversational interest in many of the posts.

On the other hand, sometimes I don't have any work to do all day, maybe even for a couple of days, so in those cases I spend a lot of time catching up on what I've missed for the past day or two, as well as hanging out on the blog putting in my two-cents' worth on several threads.

As it has happened, last week was fairly busy for me, and this week even more so. I logged 115 hours last month; 29 last week and 36 this week. These in addition to all the other stuff we retired old geezers do.

So thanks for missing me and welcoming me back. Oh, and many days I am actually here, sitting over in the corner just listening and keeping my mouth shut. "Blessed is he who, having nothing to say, refraineth from giving wordy evidence thereof."

And I'm still not quite caught up on all the threads I've missed, or gotten behind on, over the past few days, but if I run into any additional references to me, I'll find them.
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 18:01:37 -0600 Arkansas Times http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/08/tech/social-…

http://theweek.com/article/index/236197/dr…
Posted by zebedee duda]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 16:51:00 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:49:21 -0600 Arkansas Times
10 weeks in a decent New York hotel...$400 a night

10 weeks of bad room service and cold starbucks coffee left in your room when you got back at 2am after working 18 hours...$50 a day

Having your credit cards cancelled and having to pay those hotel bills yourself while being treated like a discarded condom by the very man you idealized and worked yoor ass off for...priceless!
Posted by MarcKyle1964]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:43:48 -0600 Arkansas Times

Failure of Christian Right noted:

“Millions of American evangelicals are absolutely shocked by not just the presidential election, but by the entire avalanche of results that came in,” R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville, Ky., said in an interview. “It’s not that our message — we think abortion is wrong, we think same-sex marriage is wrong — didn’t get out. It did get out.

“It’s that the entire moral landscape has changed,” he said. “An increasingly secularized America understands our positions, and has rejected them.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/10/us/polit…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:39:52 -0600 Arkansas Times
Distraught faith-based campaign staffer.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/11/09/romn…
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:30:04 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:20:46 -0600 Arkansas Times


Rachel Maddow has exit poll voters broken down by religion: pretty interesting data...

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/11/…
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:13:24 -0600 Arkansas Times
Actually, no you don't. How do we NOT? Let us count the ways.

http://americablog.com/2012/11/giuliani-pa…

One of the Darlenes had a screening at her place a couple of weeks ago. That movie about that kid who had six cents? "I see dead people." That one.

For some reason, put me in mind of the GOP and their followers.

Not THAT line. The other one.

"They don't know they're dead."
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:11:22 -0600 Arkansas Times
The RightWing Blame Game continues on RedState:

"Campaign Sources: The Romney Campaign was a Consultant Con Job"

http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/09/campaig…

We used to label such events as one con conning another as 'poetic justice. What's today's label?
Posted by eLwood]]> Sat, 10 Nov 2012 15:11:15 -0600 Arkansas Times