New Year, Old Blog

I have not been a good boy. I haven't posted to this thing in a while. Thats because its been an insane year. And of course....because I am incredibly lazy. So, I have a lot of ground to make up and I am too lazy to spend a lot of time doing it. So I am going to do it all at once....in capsule stream of conciousness form. Here goes, stay with me.

• The best news of the year is that our boys of the 39th Infantry Brigade are back home from Iraq. They did a stellar job and represented our state, and it's people, magnificently. They have added a very important chapter in the Arkansas military tradition.
  
• Arkansas Razorback football sucked, their coach is a used car salesman.
• I understand Mitch Mustain has to think of himself first, but that doesn't mean I won't be mad at him if he turns traitor.
  
• I am not a great fan of boxing, but I admire Jermain Taylor. Many Arkansans who receive national success try to get out and stay out. Jermain Taylor loves his state and makes no bones about it. He has brought boxing events back home and is trying to do good in the place he is from rather than move to the bright lights. Thats admirable and worthy of emulation.
  
• ASU football was really fun and exciting for a change.
  
• ASU's opponent in the New Orleans Bowl, Southern Mississippi, was a class act. Their fans were decent folks and fun.
• UCA had a football team worth supporting this year as they get ready to move to Division I-AA and join the Southland Conference. They advanced deep into the Division II playoffs this year. Arkansas football fans had a lot of good football this year, they just didn't notice because they were so busy complaining about the Razorbacks.
  
• Our esteemed Governor is running for President, or Vice President, or something or other outside of Arkansas. He switched around on the illegal alien issue, switched around on school consolidation to court the NEA, and tried to sell us another pack of highway bonds which the voters threw back in his face. I am an unhappy Republican. The GOP in Arkansas is back to where it was a few years ago.....nowhere.
• Razorback basketball is on the rise again. Coach Stan Heath has them playing very well and it's fun to watch Razorback hoops again. I hope that he and the team do very well this year in order to get ready for a bit of a rebuilding next year. In any event, Coach Heath has shown improvement and that's all I ask.
  
• Arkansas farmers are dropping out of the business in record numbers. Many are making the determination that its just not worth the hassle of continuing in the business. The rest of us can safely ignore this.....except at the supermarket checkout.
• Some fool of a state legislator came up with an idea for a Constitutional Amendment to ban the sale or purchase of any item related to slavery. Hmmm, thats a pretty broad category. Imagine a Civil War reenactor getting busted for buying a Confederate flag for his hobby. Imagine getting arrested for buying a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Rather than flat turning the amendment down since it obviously violates the US Constitution, the attorney general, who is running for governor, turned it down because of a technical paperwork issue. Ridiculous all the way around.
• ASU might have to change its name "Indians" due to the politically correct doofuses at the NCAA trying to effect US social policy while at the same time taking advantage of student athletes for mega-millions. Get your graduation rates up or pay your athletes a wage, then get back to me about doing the politically correct thing.

I am sure there is stuff I forgot, but thats the stuff that stands out for now. I will be back for more later.