My (more-or-less) weekly column for SBN Houston. Even if you don’t care about the lead balloon that is the Texans’ season, nuggets about Back to the Future, Miracle on 34th St., The Wizard of Oz, the BCS, and an amusing…
Category: Culture
2011 Legislative Preview: HB 1009
See here for previous posts in this series. Bill Name: AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF SEX OFFENDERS REGISTERED IN ANOTHER STATE. Sponsors: Justin Harris (R-87), 479-871-8542, Justin.Harris@arkansashouse.org; Jon Woods (R-93), 479-200-3100, woodsforarkansas@gmail.com. Purpose: If a registered sex…
2011 Legislative Preview: HB 1005
See here for explanation of what we’re doing. Bill Name: AN ACT TO CHANGE THE STATE NICKNAME BACK TO “THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY” Sponsor: David Sanders (R-31), no phone listed, davidjamessanders@gmail.com Purpose: To change Arkansas’s nickname from “The Natural State,”…
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The December meeting of Drinking Liberally’s Little Rock chapter is nigh upon us. Tomorrow night, at 6pm at Khalil’s in west Little Rock (Shackleford Rd., sort of across from P.F. Chang’s), drinks will be drank, discussions will be discussed, and…
Two Final Thoughts On The Family Council's Argument
1. If we believe the (flawed, inapplicable) Alabama Policy Institute study cited by David Cox, it seems clear that children in single-parent households do markedly worse by API’s measures than do children in home with cohabitating couples. That being the…