When the soothsayer told Julius Caesar to “beware the ides of March,” she wasn’t talking about him getting stabbed fiftyleven times. Your English teacher lied to you. The soothsayer was cautioning Caesar and anyone else who would listen that some…
Tag: Miscellany
Mid-Day Miscellany
“Well, if it was a link-dump, I wouldn’t ask questions; I’d just quote a price. But then, a link-dump is a non-lethal object, isn’t it?” Content partner Roby Brock reports that opinions are pretty varied on two specific tax cuts…
End-of-Week Miscellany: Snow Day Linkdump Edition
“Look at the big jerk. He ruined my life, and for what? A STUPID KID! Because of you, I am stuck in this frozen wasteland!” “Wasteland? I think you mean Wonderland! I mean, how about all this fabulous snow, huh?!…
End-of-Day Miscellany
Random bits of jetsom and flotsam from the wreckage of the Good Ship HB 1053: Jason Tolbert has video of a post-failure David Meeks discussing what happened. Between the obvious dry mouth and the stammering, one almost loses the message,…
End of Week Miscellany
“I thought you had the day off yesterday.” “I did! I went in to pick up my check, came home, my supervisor called me about four o’clock. Told me he got me on tape, doing a link dump.” King of…
End-of-Day Miscellany: DADT Repeal Round-Up Edition
One day after President Obama signed the bill that will ultimately lead to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” what is being said around the Arkansas internets about this historic change? Max says that, not only did President Obama…
End-of-Day Miscellany: It's Friday, You Ain't Got No Job…
Loverboy was right; everybody’s blogging for the weekend. Or something like that. Jason Tolbert points to Timmy! Griffin taking his ridiculous radio ad to a television screen near you. No, you are not high1; Tim Griffin is actually making CHARACTER…
Think Tank Memorial End-of-Day Miscellany
[For an explanation of the title, see here.] Links we didn’t get to. They’re a bunch of foxes. In French, they would be called “les renardes,” and they would be hunted with only their cunning to protect them. Jason Tolbert…
Think Tank Memorial End-of-Day Miscellany
[For an explanation of the title, see here.] You, Flock of Seagulls … you know why we’re here? Why don’t you tell my man, Vincent, which links we didn’t get to today? Max takes issue with some apparent Republican hypocrisy…
Think Tank Memorial End-of-Day Miscellany
[For an explanation of the title, see here.] Here’s what I didn’t get to on a sloooow news day: Jason Tolbert covered the Mike Beebe Campaign Kick-off event today, and noted that the ol’ Gov isn’t singing the same song…