Monthly Archives: December 2008

Friendly Fire

The shoe bomber, that is the shoe thrower, launched his attack 13 days ago, Dec. 14, and the story still has news legs. It should be ignored but the “atten­tion must be paid” (A. Miller), then it might go away. The suc­cess of the attack by Iraqi jour­nal­ist Muntad­har al-Zeidi (Asso­ci­ated Press spelling) should not be

Piano Kiss

Copy­right 2008, Ben S. Pol­lock Unex­pect the Expected Liv­ing up to your poten­tial means fail­ure if you drop out early. There have been moments, or a lit­tle longer, maybe moments and a half, in the last two weeks where I pon­der, “I almost died,” which moves to, “I almost got crazy bad hurt. Now what?” Peo­ple