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Sailor’s Delight, a poem Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, October 2, 2004. Sailor’s Delight ©2004 Ben S. Pollock I am no Pollyanna, or maybe I am. I’m not trying to see good even in the worst. Yet my standards are softer. After all I don’t want to be in that bad state again. — […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Sept. 23, 2004. I don’t want Ralph Nader to hurt John Kerry’s chances, but he sure should be allowed every chance to participate. It seems, with absolutely no research, that many of the people either actively working to keep him off the ballots of all the various states or […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004. The presidential debate particulars have been announced. Jim Lehrer of PBS, Charles Gibson of ABC and Bob Schieffer of CBS will be the moderators — and PBS’s Gwen Ifill will host the vice presidential debates. Lehrer is the top news guy in public TV, with Ifill […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004. Yes, it’s taken most of the month to return to the iBook and these Bricks. It was getting futile. Well, writing for the 12 or 13 hits (14 is a minyan for Joni Mitchell) is a matter of degree of futility: Some days and weeks it’s […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Aug. 12, 2004. Colleague Ray Hobbs of Little Rock died Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004. He wasn’t old, just 53, but had hepatitis C. [Link to obit has expired.] Here are two recollections of Ray. 1. In 1982, maybe 1983, I was working at a suburban Dallas daily (Irving Daily […]
Doop a dupe a doop Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2004. The Berkeley Breathed “Opus” panel for Sunday 8/8/04 looked very familiar (His syndicate does not allow open online access). So I walked from the paper on the dining table to my home office (the north side of the sunporch I have […]