"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anesia comes Monday through Thursday and helps Vicki in the house. I was finally able to catch her on camera. She inherited our husky Yuri, when he got more than our space could handle.

He asked to go out to an all-you-can-eat pizza house. So we did -- it was fairly empty, weekday, night was young. (Brazilians eat around 8-9 p.m.) I think the boys lost count of the pieces they ate.

The best was the chocolate desert pizza with peaches and kiwi. Sometimes they put strawberries on 'em, but they weren't in season yet.

http://OpinionJournal.com

From their Best of the Web e-zine:

Craig Bozman of Rockville, Md., in a letter to the editor of the Washington Post, lists some of the government facilities in West Virginia that are named for the state's (and the nation's) senior senator:

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The Robert C. Byrd Highway; the Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam; the Robert C. Byrd Institute; the Robert C. Byrd Life Long Learning Center; the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Program; the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope; the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse; the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center; the Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center; the Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center; the Robert C. Byrd Federal Building; the Robert C. Byrd Drive; the Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex; the Robert C. Byrd Library; the Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center; and the Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center.

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And the man's not even dead yet. But he'd better do it now. Later, they may change their minds and names!

Okay, so we're backwards in Arkansas. This off my home county history site:

Daulton was a member of a prominent family of Northeast Arkansas newspapermen and started several newspapers, including the Democratic Press at Gainesville in 1879 and the News at Gainesville in 1898. He apprenticed with Sam Clemens in the printshop of the Hannibal, Mo. Union, and later said "Sam Clemens could get more ink on him for the amount of work he did than any man I ever saw. Mark Twain sent me a copy of all his books, but I was not particularly impressed by any of them."

Hard times, those.