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American Culture

Second adolescence

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. The local paper ran a feature photo this morning of an old man playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. I couldn’t tell what he thought of this; the blindfold covered most of his face. A photog grabbing this sort of shot is easy-pickin’s, just head to the community senior center. […]

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American Culture

Wascally wascals

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005: From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal (while these quotes are complete, they are excerpts): “Hoping to breathe new life into its animated Looney Tunes franchise and prop up the WB television network’s slumping Kids’ WB line-up, Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. is planning to launch a new […]

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News, Spin

Multiple choice

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, February 11, 2005: One from Column A and one from Column B. Let’s play! ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea declared itself a de facto nuclear power Thursday, claiming in its strongest terms to date that it had “manufactured nuclear weapons” to defend itself from the United States. ASSOCIATED PRESS […]

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American Culture

Recipe for leadership

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005. News item: Walter Sheib, White House chef for over a decade, is resigning “to pursue other opportunities.” At a period when departing Cabinet officials are being replaced, amid allegations about an administration cooking the books in intelligence and Social Security, now President Bush has to worry […]

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Life Lessons

Bowling in league

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Feb. 4, 2005. Where was I? Friendship, before I got so full of myself. Friendship broadly and specifically. Now, as an adult, as a man, as an American. Marriage and. … Work and. … It’s a theme that could be developed in occasional Bricks. I have no answers and […]

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Life Lessons

When it’s you, it’s still me

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Feb. 3, 2005. Friendship needs addressing, maybe tomorrow. It’s not a reaction to a news item, either, like most Bricks. But it is a reaction, to how this subject broadly came up in me, even though I don’t know. With this as the latest example, all writing is reaction, […]