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June 24, 2004

Vol 2 • No 23

Play Ball!!! - In the country of football:

When creaky little Ray Winder Field is stuffed with people, it's possible to think that the spectacle of minor league baseball is appropriately prized by your fellow citizens and that you are lucky to have a seat.

This blood's for you

Well, it's been a lot better here at the SBC since us inerrantists took over and ran all the liberals out. Most of them have slunk off to join the Methodists and other cults, and it sure is quieter and more harmonious here at the convention without them. I wish them well but am more certain than ever that they and we will be going in opposite directions in the sweet by and by.

Clintonites night out

The Whitewater tragedy

The one failing of "The Hunting of the President," the Harry Thomason film based on the book by Gene Lyons and Joe Conason, is that it goes too light on Kenneth W. Starr and the Republican judiciary that shielded his predations.

Plain talk

Bill Clinton's book - Yes, he's self-indulgent. Yes, he's long-winded. Yes, the book will sell like crazy. No, it won't change anybody's mind. The Arkansas stuff, which bored the hotshot New York Times reviewer, is likely to be popular with readers. Readers will take the personal over policy every time.

Presidential election procedures will be same old, same old

Despite the highly publicized problems with voting in the 2000 presidential election, and the passage of federal legislation intended to bring efficiency and uniformity to elections, the 2004 election will be conducted with much the same equipment and in much the same way as four years ago.

Swan song for chicken salad

Three weeks ago, Dean Cline was predicting that The Bridgeway psychiatric hospital in North Little Rock would soon be filled with people in agonizing withdrawal from Cordell's chicken salad.

Texas hooks the young

AUSTIN - Experts who make a living trying to bring more businesses to large Southern cities are convinced that what it takes is more people who are 25 to 34 years old and have bachelor's degrees. Unfortunately, the number in the Little Rock-North Little Rock area is just a bit lower than the average of 29.2 percent in metropolitan Southern cities.
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