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		<title>The Future, Exactly</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/11/06/the-future-exactly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 16:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock. &#8220;Today is your birthday.&#8221; (This is the special section of the Daily Newspaper Horoscope. You remember newspapers &#8212; impartial facts, reasoned commentary, comics for the kiddies, and a Zodiac that isn&#8217;t truth, comment or let&#8217;s face it healthy for children. Now more than ever, Newspapers Are the Future, especially this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Just a Show</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/10/30/its-just-a-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we are, 2010, a week before the national midterm elections. Where does the president appear to support his party and his policies and other endeavors. Not an interview with Katie, Brian or Diane &#8212; or their seconds, even though they&#8217;re all trained journalists. He didn&#8217;t drop in on Dave or Jay. The prez is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helen Thomas, Ripped in Pieces</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A statement on Helen Thomas from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, written by Ben Pollock as its vice president, edited by informal committee: For decades, Helen Thomas has been a paragon for younger journalists and her closing her career as a bad role model provides lessons as well, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robo Fall</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/06/09/robo-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock Dear Democratic and Republican parties of Arkansas, and all the interest groups at sea: On behalf of the news media of the state &#8212; and independent blogs such as this, seeing that the corporate media don&#8217;t pay me to represent them but instead to shape text &#8212; I want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Run Down for Runoff</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/06/06/run-down-for-runoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s why we have the committee system.&#8221; Let&#8217;s nominate this as the quote of the spring 2010 primary campaign season. Dave Bisbee is executive of Benton County, Ark. He&#8217;s seeking re-election. The field of candidates was narrowed in May, and the runoff for county judge is Tuesday the 8th. It&#8217;s a Republican primary, no Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring into Business</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/03/22/spring-into-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a world this is, what a country. That&#8217;s today&#8217;s controversial opinion, based on local news articles and a national item. Those pieces from last week come to mind the morning after massive health-care legislation passed the U.S. House, where opposition spanned from principled and reasonable to name-calling. Two Northwest Arkansas reporters last week reviewed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wild Things in the Air</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/01/05/wild-things-in-the-air/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Answering machine&#8217;s new message</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2009/10/15/answering-machines-new-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve reached the voice mail of Ben Pollock. I can&#8217;t answer the phone right now because I&#8217;m floating above the Ozark foothills inside a balloon &#8212; which explains my high-pitched voice &#8212; looking for radioactive rabbit droppings. If you now must ask Where the Wild Things Are, they&#8217;re eating supper in their room. And it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Vote or Don&#8217;t Vote?</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2009/09/15/cant-vote-or-dont-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Fayetteville school millage election. It&#8217;s not a vote on building a new high school, because that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink &#8220;Ayes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2009/08/01/pink-ayes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 16:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s get this straight. Nationalized health care &#8212; 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 &#8211;  is socialism. Rescuing banks &#8212; that award huge bonuses to undeserving executives and neared bankruptcy because of [...]]]></description>
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