Brick: Muse on News by Ben S. Pollock
- Top Ten List of Top Ten Commandments
Top Ten Reasons the University of Arkansas Doesn’t Need to Find Places on Campus to Nail 500 Copies of One Translation of the Ten Commandments Editor’s Note by Ben Pollock, Local 965 vice president News item: “U of A Rolls Out Ten Commandments Displays,” Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Oct. 16, 2025, also reported by various local,… Read more: Top Ten List of Top Ten Commandments - Eggshells
An Editor’s Note I don’t know when I began being paranoid about job security. I’d like to think it was working for newspaper editor John R. Starr from 1985 to his retirement in 1992, because if you just read his caustic columns, who could blame me. It’s likely to be my nature, from childhood. After… Read more: Eggshells - The Deconstruction Era
An Editor’s Note It’s incredible that no wag by now has given our era a name that sticks, goes viral. The announcements and actions coming out of Washington this year — with no sign of slowing — qualify for uniqueness. We came close in 2017-2021 to a singular name, but no go. Maybe that’s because… Read more: The Deconstruction Era - Public Radio Daze
An Editor’s Note President Trump soon will sign a huge cut to federal public broadcast funding, which got congressional approval July 18, as The Associated Press reported, “Congress Approves Trump’s $9 Billion Cut to Public Broadcasting and Foreign Aid.” Of that, about $1.1 billion was earmarked for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that in turn… Read more: Public Radio Daze - Assess, then Rouse the Crickets
2 of 2. See 1. One of the most disturbing bits about President Trump’s rapid destaffing and defunding of federal agencies and programs is the silence. What about cable news channels and social media, they won’t shut up about it, you ask. What about the growing street protests and overflowing town hall meetings, whether Republican… Read more: Assess, then Rouse the Crickets - Woke Up and Smell the Coffee
1 of 2. See 2. So many times in so many, many years, we are captivated by news from Washington yet breathe relief that as dramatic as it is, it doesn’t hit all that close. Not this year, oh boy. U.S. colleges and universities in recent weeks got the same memos, more or less literally.… Read more: Woke Up and Smell the Coffee
Food Columns
Candidly, the recipes are posted for my convenience, from which to refer via iPad in the kitchen. All are vegetarian, nearly all vegan, aka plant-based whole-food PBWF and, especially the recent ones, low to no oil. I’m sure you’d like them, too.
- Friday Night Re-Pabst
DIY Michelada Is Superior Several years ago I came across a curious cookbook. It comprised workable, simple and healthy vegan recipes but as a parody of a diet book, The Taco Cleanse: The Tortilla-Based Diet Proven to Change Your Life.… Read more: Friday Night Re-Pabst - Clean Beans
The goal for Memorial Day extending to the Fourth of July this year was a recipe for baked beans tasting as I remember Mom opening a can or two and heating them, but also vegan and zero to low oil.… Read more: Clean Beans - Ozarkonomiyaki
Japanese-style savory vegan pancake (okonomiyaki) with everyday ingredients Okonomiyaki (Japanese more or less for “grilled to your liking”) is a thick pancake with a lot of regional variations. Most recipes online indicate they’re usually savory, loaded with vegetables but no… Read more: Ozarkonomiyaki - Full Casserole on a Sheet
One rule my wife and I have picked up for pot-luck suppers in our whole-food plant-based decade is “bring an entree.” We vegans seem to live on sides and salads, but in a communal room with a table of platters,… Read more: Full Casserole on a Sheet
