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Yokel teevee is very proud of itself to have wireless capabilities and satellites and compooters and dishes. It forgets the ability to broadcast live, and to broadcast live away from the studio, reaches to the days of the Hindenberg. It’s called a “remote feed.” This morning all the channels have treated us to the landing […]
The Nobel folks awarded its 2007 literature prize Thursday to Doris Lessing. The wire service story was the usual. It began with the summary lede. Then it had a sliver of who she is — elderly and English but with first-hand knowledge of the Near East and southern Africa, prolifically writing fiction often sci fi, […]
This could have been a wicked Brick, ripping up Fayetteville’s eighth annual (but it feels like the 240th) Bikes Blues & BBQ that’s going on this weekend. A couple of years ago I had some criticisms about it, and until Thursday night I had nothing new to add so I wasn’t going to. I have […]
Corrections: For the Record An article on Thursday about the arraignment of three men in the shooting of two New York police officers, one of whom died, misstated the schedule set by a judge for a trial in the case. The trial is expected to begin by February, not by ‘Feb. 30.’ The error occurred […]
Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit.” — “Gordon Gekko,” Wall Street, as quoted in imdb.com Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock If “greed is good,” as the fictional financier Gordon Gekko famously preached in 1987, then […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Any number of self-appointed TV experts in recent months say either “40 is the new 20” and “60 is the new 40.” Oprah Winfrey said the latter to David Letterman when she interviewed him a couple of weeks ago. They were discussing his toddler son. Actually, that would mean 60 […]