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Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Friday, November 5, 2004: I don’t know my precise opinion on the presidential election today, except that we who think we are smart better think again. I resent those commentators who blame Kerry: no personality, poor campaigner, bad presentation, because, well, none of this is true enough to have cost […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004: Maybe I’m taking a terrible personal risk putting out my thoughts on the World Wide Web. Even with fewer than the 14 “hits” I assume I get, I worry about not just offending someone who may have some authority over me (someone at work, someone on […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004. It is, absurdly, nearly 3 in the morning. My newsroom did not bring in boxes and boxes of mediocre pizza but decent barbecue for the Election Night crew. Unfortunately, I don’t eat meat, so the slaw and beans kept me going until I left the office […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, October 27, 2004. "The Wall Street Journal" today in a feature recalled Gracie Allen’s 1940 run for president, noting also Eddie Cantor’s in 1932 and Will Rogers in 1928 and also 1932. And it mentioned Pat Paulsen’s runs in 1968, ’72 and ’76. No comic is doing so this […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, October 21, 2004. We went to the new Blair Library on Tuesday, after lunch at Jammin’ Java with friends, She to the video section and I in my cap upstairs to grab a couple of novels by William Humphrey, a biography of whom I’ll be reviewing shortly. I said […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The new library building has been open only since the ninth, and I’ve been there three or four times a week since. Each time I intend to camp at a desk with a legal pad and some books yet never have. Except for the grand opening […]