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Copyright 2010 Ben S. Pollock WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sometimes you have to stop and think. Often thinking and writing looks like loafing. As Steinbeck wrote: “I write many thousands of words a day and some of them go on paper.” It can take quite a while. Visiting Washington’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial for the first time […]
First published in the November 2010 issue of the e-Columnist By Ben S. Pollock President, National Society of Newspaper Columnists “Politics make strange bedfellows” goes the quote by 19th-century newspaperman Charles Dudley Warner, and this fall it’s been columnists getting renown for jumping on the mattress. Columnists, commentators, news analysts, bloggers, interest-group hacks, cable yaks — […]
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 — or their seconds, even though they’re all trained journalists. He didn’t drop in on Dave or Jay. The prez is […]
The following is my column for the October 2010 edition of the monthly newsletter of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.” — Robert Benchley To avoid betraying my idol, Mr. Benchley, I’ll rationalize. This is not analysis but a lesson on creating humor. Books I’ve […]
Portable chairs these days are of a kind: metal rods supporting a hammock seat and back, designed to collapse and fit in a tubular cloth bag. It’s been impossible to find those web chairs, strips of woven plastic interlaced on a frame of light aluminum tubing; it just folds for transport. Web chairs are more […]
News clipping from the Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: WEHCO Newspapers has signed a contract to work with Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas, which files lawsuits against website owners who post copyrighted newspaper articles without permission. The agreement covers all the company’s papers. Righthaven is currently looking for violations of copyrighted material published by […]