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		<title>The Room in the Elephant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This column first was published as the &#8220;President&#8217;s Message&#8221; in the September 2011 newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The board of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists has been cleaning up after the party in Detroit. While washing glasses and emptying the trash, we share the usual mix of gleeful recollection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Columnist&#8217;s Scrapbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president’s column for the June 2011 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. The NSNC Conference, three days out of 365, is a highlight of my year. Apparently, I mustn&#8217;t have a life. Actually, I do have a grand life, and NSNC has been a huge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Axis of Nice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 16:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president’s column for the May 2011 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Had a bizarre dream the other night, that World War III had started. I saw Dianne Feinstein, she having moved up from senator to secretary of state or vice president, holding a news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president’s column for the April 2011 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists A huge columnist controversy &#8212; looking to be the worst in years &#8212; began in mid-March, only it turned out to be so puny it ran its course in days. It seemed a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Going Anywhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president’s column for the March 2011 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists An NSNC friend e-mailed links to farewell pieces that a couple of just-downsized columnists were allowed to publish. That opportunity isn&#8217;t always granted. Atypically, he didn&#8217;t add his opinion, which made my impression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stances with Wolves</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2011/02/01/stances-with-wolves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president’s column for the February 2011 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists Columnists get labeled as opinionated. This was brought home again after the Tucson shooting. Americans saw on the air and online &#8212; come on, paper? &#8212; as many pundits as politicians (and rarely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resolutions for the Columnist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my president&#8217;s column for the January 2011 edition of monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. 1. Quit grasping onto obvious topics like &#8220;Columnist Lists New Year&#8217;s Resolutions.&#8221; 2. When writing, quit the posed, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you, but as for me &#8230;&#8221; or a similar phrase. Reflective columns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food, Shelter and Columns</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/12/01/food-shelter-and-columns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my column for the December 2010 edition of monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Earlier this week I woke up presuming I could start this month&#8217;s column with, &#8220;Hello, I have a story to tell,&#8221; and wing it. I didn&#8217;t have a clue where to go from there, though. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certifiably</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 16:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First published in the November 2010 issue of the e-Columnist By Ben S. Pollock President, National Society of Newspaper Columnists &#8220;Politics make strange bedfellows&#8221; goes the quote by 19th-century newspaperman Charles Dudley Warner, and this fall it&#8217;s been columnists getting renown for jumping on the mattress. Columnists, commentators, news analysts, bloggers, interest-group hacks, cable yaks &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Just Showed Up: Like</title>
		<link>http://benpollock.com/brick/2010/09/01/the-future-showed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is my column for the September 2010 edition of monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Last year I asked my Facebook friends on my &#8220;Wall,&#8221; where conversations are texted (Is this English?), &#8220;Why are people so upbeat on Facebook?&#8221; I&#8217;d been on Facebook a few months, having been sold on [...]]]></description>
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