The Dirt on Nicky

Cool as a cabbage   Healthy is the house that smells like cabbage. Humans have been growing cabbage (aka Brassica oleracea) for four millennia for food and...

The Reel News

Pictured are Ethan and his dad, Brent, from KC, who catch these awesome stripers with Xieng Chanthavong with Hooked on Fishing LLC   Beaver Tailwaters: Winter is...

Esoteric Astrology as news for week December 10 – 16, 2025

Our Lady of Guadalupe, Lighting the Hanukkah & Advent Candles We are moving closer and closer to Winter Solstice (Sunday, Dec. 21) when the Sun...

From the Back Porch

At the age of nine I discovered “sin” and didn’t do well with it. My 11-year-old sister and I had convinced our parents we should...

ISawArkansas

Sight is a wonderful thing, but we all know that wonderful things are sometimes piecemealed with shocks and malfunctions. You get old, you get...

The Coffee Table

Guns and Guitars The day before Thanksgiving I reveled in a gathering of new friends with old guitars, ate more than I needed, and faced...

Hall Closets

Well, here we go again. All last week it was reported that Alex Golesh would be named the next HC of the Arkansas Razorback...

American Insights

Words Worth Remembering: Lincoln in November 1863 The blood of thousands of soldiers, North and South, was still seeping into the torn earth when Abraham...

This Week’s Independent Thinker

She was born 193 years ago last Wednesday. Mary Edwards Walker was born of abolitionist parents who started a school to ensure their girls were...

The Dirt on Nicky

Where have you been? I’ve never been to Russia, but I’ve grown beets just like Russian gardeners. According to folks who count things, Russian farms...