After a lengthy stay in Memphis, Tennessee for a New Year’s/Liberty Bowl/ Beale Street vacation, The Think Tank is back at work and admiring the light snow that is falling in downtown Little Rock.
I’m catching up on local news. I’m sad to hear that Henry Woods, a former aide to Sen. Dale Bumpers, passed away. He was 58.
My Top 10 movies of the year appeared in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette New Year’s Day. If you don’t have a subscription, here they are: 1) The Hurt Locker, 2) Where the Wild Things Are, 3) An Education, 4) Summer Hours, 5) Bright Star, 6) Adventureland, 7) Precious, 
Fantastic Mr. Fox, 9) Public Enemies, 10) Inglorious Basterds. Since I submitted this list I saw Up in the Air (terrific), Nine (A dazzling mess), Sherlock Holmes (entertaining with too much CGI), Avatar (gorgeous and hyper-political) and It’s Complicated (a very funny Alec Baldwin).
Last week I released my 2009 year in review in politics and blogging.
Jason Tolbert notes that Sarah Palin may or may not be coming to Arkansas next month.
Lance Turner is finally back blogging.
It sounds like John Brummett wants George W. Bush back in the Oval Office. He elaborates on his blog.
House Speaker Robbie Wills blogs his new year’s resolutions, one of which is “not to annoy John Brummett.” Come on Mr. Speaker, your new year’s resolution should be something more firm: “I endeavor that my blog, robbiewills.com, will never suck as bad as John Brummett’s.”
Pat Lynch says good riddance to 2009.
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