http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/11/12/the-monday-night-line Comments On: The Monday night line 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) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:45:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Durango]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:31:09 -0600 Arkansas Times
I had to force myself to finish it, but found it to be insulting for anyone with average intelligence. I thought it was condescending, and even caught myself laughing at the absurdity of it all.

And I would give the exact same review to that silly book “The Shack”.
Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 09:17:22 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by mountaingirl]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:31:21 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by the outlier]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 07:56:00 -0600 Arkansas Times
"Married CIA Director General Saint David Howell Petraeus had an affair with a third-string Bond girl named Broadwell who goes all “hands off my adulterous love-machine with the mad oral skillz, bitch” to another woman who also has ladywood for a man in a uniform, prompting lady number two to give the bitchagrams to a friend in the FBI (who has incidentally has a boner on for lady number two) who in turn gives them to his superiors, and then subsequently refuses to butt out because he’s still hoping for some post-chivalry nookie, and then the whole thing blows up right after President Obama steals the election from Mitt Romney with the help of women, browns, blahs, gays, youngs, hip urbanites, Jews, Catholics and Nate Silver who is A Wizard, A True Star."

http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/11/12/lo…

In other news Ms. Broadwell is a fan of "The Celestine Prophecy".

http://boingboing.net/2012/11/11/leadershi…

No judgement is implied regarding her reading choices, it's just FYI. Redfield, who wrote "The Celestine Prophecy" is one of a very long line of people who are part of the human potential movement. Some have cashed in quite handsomely. Many friends recommended the book to me in the 1990's. I tried reading it, but it is so poorly written, full of grammatical errors, etc. that I didn't get very far.

The people who were touting this book to me also got on the bandwagon for Joel Osteen's "Your Best Life Now". FYI.
Posted by the outlier]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:55:33 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:31:36 -0600 Arkansas Times
"According to a senior U.S. defense official, the FBI has uncovered between 20,000 and 30,000 pages of “potentially inappropriate” emails between Allen and Jill Kelley, a 37-year-old Tampa woman whose close friendship with Petraeus ultimately led to his downfall. Allen, a Marine, succeeded Petraeus as the top allied commander in Afghanistan in July 2011."
Posted by radical centrist]]> Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:20:28 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by arhogfan501]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:43:19 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:14:06 -0600 Arkansas Times
Just got an email from my brother and he sent me this link to a picture of my step-grandfather's general store in Lamont, OK, or whats left of it. There was an awning on it in the old days and "Browning's" was painted on the brick facade above the windows. In the summer, there would be wooden benches out front where the old codgers would sit and talk. In the winter, Mr. Browning moved the benches inside and placed them around the old coal-burning, pot-bellied stove which was in the back third of the store, and the old men would come in there and sit for hours.

He closed the store in 1961. My grandmother died in 1959 and it was hard for him to run it by himself. When I was little, Mr. Browning had an old cat named Tom who would walk to the store every evening and wait for him at the store's back door and walk home with him. I guess Tom heard my grandmother making supper and knew it was time for the store to close.

It really was a general store like "Little House on the Prairie". He sold khakis, work clothes, yard goods, and all sorts of things---no fresh meat though. He just had cheeses and lunch meats like baloney and something I called "goose liver" that only my Dad and I liked.

If you read the first comment at the flickr site, the author talks about Mr. Browning humming all the time. When us kids were little, we could never figure out if he was humming a song or what. I wonder if it was a habit he picked up in France where he was an ambulance driver in WWI.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bosshogg/2343…
Posted by the outlier]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:49:12 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:44:33 -0600 Arkansas Times > Maybe I've been gone too long, but I don't get it.
--outlier

As one who has interacted with you several times for at least a year, let me say
you don't "get it" and be thankful you don't. I hope you never get it, literally, like the flu or small pox.
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:35:47 -0600 Arkansas Times It's not & shouldn't be any of our business what is done in their private lives. It is the business of the affected partners and public scrutiny just makes it worse for the families & children causing angst & embarrassment to the innocent.
We need to grow up and cease pointing fingers like we're still in kindergarten.
Posted by Hackett]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:29:20 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:23:45 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by NeverVoteRepublican]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:16:01 -0600 Arkansas Times Yes, crazy idea but do you know what's in ur stuff? Hydrogen, a valuable fuel and yields six hours per liter:

"Oh, this? Just some teenage girls from Africa who invented a urine-powered generator."

http://io9.com/5958887/oh-this-just-some-t…
Posted by eLwood]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:13:58 -0600 Arkansas Times
The Petreus thing just keeps getting weirder. I'm starting to think Broadwell reminds me perhaps of Lisa Nowak, the astronaut who kidnapped the air force officer awhile back. It's just a different circle of players. And there's all kinds of politics involved. It may be best that Obama was out of the loop, which is a proverbial cluster mess.
Posted by Vanessa]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:10:55 -0600 Arkansas Times
She'll be like Judi Dench in the James Bond movies.
Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:04:51 -0600 Arkansas Times
I mean, what’s not to love about them? They’re cute, pretty, humorous, sincere, in touch with themselves, and tell it the way they see it.

In addition to plainjim’s recommendation that you see “Steel Magnolias,” I’d suggest you rent “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.” Great flicks, both of ‘em.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Secret…)

Also, read some of the comments that follow the clip we’re discussing.
Posted by Durango]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 22:04:26 -0600 Arkansas Times
http://assets.amuniversal.com/f601c2d00504…
Posted by Cato]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:58:59 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:53:25 -0600 Arkansas Times
How's that working out for ya David??
Posted by Nanc]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:51:56 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by Nanc]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:45:51 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by plainjim]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:44:05 -0600 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:33:41 -0600 Arkansas Times