By Rachel Birdsell As I sit here the day after the election, I am so proud of the direction our country has taken. It seems as though we are finally starting to see the light. With President Barack Obama snagging 332 electoral votes and the popular vote, it’s clear that the majority of us are…
By Rachel Birdsell It never fails. Every time we witness a natural disaster, be it hurricane, earthquake or tornado, there’s at least one twit who feels the need to jump up and shout that it’s due to immoral behavior. Most recently, Christian preacher, John McTernan wrote a blog post and stated that Hurricane Sandy was…
By Rachel Birdsell I was taken to task by a reader over the last column I’d written about Mitt Romney. She let me know that it was trash and that I should have written about why I was going to vote for President Obama instead. I don’t think that who I vote for is necessarily…
By Rachel Birdsell Last week I took some Ouija boards up to my shop in Eureka Springs to use as Halloween decorations. A couple stopped in and when the woman in the duo took one look at the boards, she turned to her male companion and said, “We can’t stay in here. They have one…
By Rachel Birdsell I have always been in favor of free speech and would hate to see our country without it. But, sometimes people let things fly out of their mouths instead of keeping it in their heads. House of Representative hopeful, Republican Charles Fuqua of Batesville is one such example. He recently published an…
Dear Mitt, I didn’t think I’d have to write to you again, but you have really gone downhill quickly since the first time I wrote. Your trip to gather funds from Americans living abroad was a whirlwind of disaster. It takes a special kind of talent to successfully piss off our allies. I understand that…
By Rachel Birdsell For those of you unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards, they’re bestowed posthumously to those who have died in spectacularly stupid ways. Unfortunately, we are narrowing down the pool of contestants for the Darwin Awards and in doing so are increasing the population of stupid people. We’re doing this by taking away people’s…
By Rachel Birdsell Ladies, do you ever feel discriminated against by having to use so many things that are obviously made for men? Well, I’m here to ease your frustration a little bit. I’ve researched some fabulous products that are made just for us, and I don’t mean the products that are in any special…
by Rachel Birdsell I just read in “So, Now You Know” that “a report introduced into the U.S. Senate states that a child will have witnessed 8,000 murders and 100,000 acts of violence on television before completing elementary school.” I’m not sure if I believe that. The name of the report isn’t given, and whether…
I’ve always suspected that Chuck Norris was a little too far right to be sane, but the video I just watched proves it.