Good idea. KATV apparently is working on a story about cell phone bills at the LR School District. It has FOI'ed the district's phone records.
Here's a story for someone with more manpower and time than I can devote: How many cell phones have been issued in state government? Who gets them? What sort of plan do they have? Clearly, it's probably impossible to limit their use to business only. Who has Blackberries? Iphones? Etc. What do phones cost the state now vs. that day when there were no cell phones? Nobody has given up land lines.
It wasn't so long ago that we lived in a world without wireless. I remember covering Ronald Gene Simmons' execution at Cummins in 1990. We borrowed a rare shoebox-sized phone from Alltel, I believe, so we could provide an instant report of the death to the desk. As if that mattered. It was going to take hours to print the paper anyway. There was no web then either, remember? What one generation has wrought.
Been watching this story? I have. The Bush administration finally accepted a tad of science and declared the polar bear is endangered because, hey, there's not so much ice anymore. The Bushies don't intend to do anything about greenhouse gas emissions, however. Who can prove they're helping to melt the bears' ice?
"We know Earth is warming. We know man is a factor in that. But we cannot tell you to what extent," said Kempthorne.
Said to be a bid for the working class vote.
But do they really want the votes that are still up for grabs? According to this Obama blogger "the only people supporting hillary are the uneducated, ignorant hicks who don't like black people."
UPDATE: Superb timing. The media jumped all over the opportunity to talk non-stop about Edwards and not about Hillary's blowout of Obama in W.Va. That, alone, made it worthwhile to Obama. How many votes does it produce? Who knows?
I'm more interested in the Elizabeth Edwards endorsement. She stayed home.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 11:16:30
Breathe easy fans of zany, scatalogical cartoons about man babies and clueless professors. The
end of
superdeluxe.com (or, officially, the "fold-into" adultswim.com) does not signal the end of Fort Smith native Brad Neely's cartoon output (see our long-feature on
Neely from last year).
Reached by email, Neely confirmed that
"China, IL," the four-part mini-series starring the Professor Brothers and Babycakes that's halfway done, will continue to screen on Adult Swim TV and be hosted on SuperDeluxe. Neely said the site will likely continue to exist for a while. He still has 25 videos SuperDeluxe plans to host.
"I am gearing up for TV," Neely said. "But I am not sure where I'll end up or what I will be working on. I have other series that I am currently developing that will move differently and star new characters. Lots of ideas in the works. Baby Cakes and The Professor Brothers are not over (and I have really just begun.)"
Yes. Fiery!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - 14:25:14
Another reminder: The greatest teeny-bop movie of all time screens tonight at Riverdale (helped to that position by the best performance Sean Penn's ever given). Derek Jenkins (AKA A boy named Sooie) will moderate a Q&A with Judge Reinhold pre-screening at 7 p.m.
Tickets are available
here exclusively. Craig Renaud told me last Friday they were selling briskly.
