Making the rounds: Wal-Mart accused of being cookie copier
Posted: August 6, 2009 at 2:01 p.m.
Wal-Mart takes on the Girl Scouts? A Smackover mom wants you to name her baby. And Hendrix makes the Top 100 in Forbes' list of best American colleges. Here's what is happening across the wires and the web today that you may not have seen yet.
Cookie cutter?
A mommy blogger is accusing Arkansas-based Wal-Mart of copying Girl Scout cookies. Beta versions of Great Value cookies similar to Thin Mints and Tagalongs apparently made a recent appearance at the BlogHer conference in Chicago.
Read more here: http://adage.com/article?article_id=138272
Name my child
A Smackover mother of six has found what she hopes is a surefire way to make money in this economy. She has put the rights to name her baby up for auction on eBay, earning her the scorn of one site's blogger and national attention.
More here, including a family photo: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/features_momsatwork/2009/08/mom-sells-naming-rights-of-unborn-son-on-ebay.html"
The price of an education
Forbes has named curfew-having, keep-your-room-clean West Point as the best college in America.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0824/colleges-09-education-west-point-america-best-college.html
Ivy Leaguers Princeton, Harvard and Yale crack the Top 10. Notre Dame is 50.
Hendrix College in Conway is the highest ranked out of Arkansas...at 81.
Speaking of colleges
This via The Associated Press:
Former Notre Dame (AND more importantly, Arkansas) football coach Lou Holtz told an Indiana television station he doesn't plan to run for Congress.
"I'm working for ESPN. I don't want to run for Congress," Holtz told WNDU-TV of South Bend on Wednesday at a golf outing in nearby Bridgman, Mich. "All I'm going to do is fulfill the commitment to ESPN. I'm prepared for it and then we'll go from there."
A GOP strategist said Tuesday that Holtz was considering running as a Republican for the central Florida congressional seat held by Democrat Rep. Suzanne Kosmas.
Holtz has never run for office. He has worked as an analyst at ESPN since retiring from his last coaching stint at South Carolina at the end of the 2004 season.
Watch the video here: http://www.wndu.com/localnews/headlines/52566557.html#
Emotions high over health care
The town hall meeting in Little Rock last night made Talking Points Memo. The tensions are running high, and Reps. Vic Snyder and Mike Ross (the latter a Blue Dog coalition leader) took some heat over the Obama administration's health-care plan.
Watch video here: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/ross-snyder-meet-angry-crowd-in-arkansas-town-hall.php.
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