Brick doesn’t usually have movie reviews. But it’s the turn of the year — not the decade as it actually ends Dec. 31, 2010 — and a couple are worth a shout. It’s far from a complete assessment, as I often wait to see movies on DVD. Also, this comes from Northwest Arkansas where so [...]
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
You’ve reached the voice mail of Ben Pollock. I can’t answer the phone right now because I’m floating above the Ozark foothills inside a balloon — which explains my high-pitched voice — looking for radioactive rabbit droppings.
If you now must ask Where the Wild Things Are, they’re eating supper in their room. And it’s still [...]
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Last week, bored with NPR and between audio books, I had the radio scan for AM talk radio and ended up at KURM-AM, 790. Despite being a Rogers station, longtime host Kermit Womack kept getting calls about today’s Fayetteville school millage election.
It’s not a vote on building a new high school, because that is not [...]
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Let’s get this straight.
Nationalized health care — which would replace greedy insurance companies with overwhelmed government bureaucrats as middlemen between patient and doctor [that's the image being sold], ending the tragedy of uninsured and underinsured Americans – is socialism.
Rescuing banks — that award huge bonuses to undeserving executives and neared bankruptcy because of loose loan [...]
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Stereotypes are tough. Arkansas can move right along, minding its own business with no Huckabee or Clinton (either of them) feeding the 24-hour international news cycle in at least 168 hours, when a politico from my northwestern part of the state, prominent only here, opens his yap.
State Sen. Kim Hendren, Republican of Gravette, a little [...]
The 24-hour news and/or business channels, which can’t fill the time with analyses and opinions — fresh information only takes a couple of minutes — more frequently use predictions to round out the cycle. Can you take their forecasts to the bank?
Can your bank then take them to the Fed?
Never mind the truth, can anyone [...]
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The news media were not allowed in to the Capitol’s Statuary Hall for the inaugural luncheon, a traditional meal hosted by the members of Congress who organized the overall ceremonies. Bloggers didn’t make it past Secret Service agents wearing toques. Fortunately, there were flies on the wall, despite the January temperatures. They did not care [...]
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
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 [...]
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Copyright 2008 Ben S. Pollock
Last Friday, GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah [...]
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Monday, September 1, 2008
This very short essay was deleted by my hosting service, but its drafts aren’t to be found. It was the second of two about Sarah Palin with an allusion to Hurricane Gustav and just about three quick paragraphs. If a reader pulled off a copy, please send a copy to me — ben (at) benpollock [...]
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