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Advice for the New Year - don't be looking for wisdom here, my friend

If you can’t say something nice, at least be entertaining.

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The My God, You Sound Old Award: December, 2008

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for it’s old-fogyish remark about South Park: “If it’s a cartoon, children should be able to watch it.”

I guess the whole world of anime must leave them cowering under their beds.

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Quote of the Day

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. -  Michael Pritchard

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Bad Writer of the Week Award - Richard S. Drake

Yes, I read the editorial in the NWA Times this week before I wrote my blog - “Northwest Arkansas Times and the Ministry of Silly Walks.” I was attempting, albeit in a clumsy fashion, to make fun of the headline used in the editorial.

Good thing I don’t get paid for this stuff, huh?

Then again, it was a silly headline, so I guess we’re even.

rsdrake@nwark.com

 

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Life and death
Date: 11/19/2009
By: David Koon

Not many were shocked when Curtis Lavelle Vance was found guilty last week of capital murder, rape, residential burglary and theft of property in the October 2008 beating death of KATV anchor Anne Pressly. /more/

Xmas access nixed
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Two weeks ago we reported on the efforts of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers to put up a winter solstice display on the grounds of the state Capitol. /more/


Charter school wisdom
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

The state Board of Education last week demonstrated a more searching approach to charter school applications than it has sometimes shown. /more/

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