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Bargaining universal

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, June 10, 2004. The small business community continues to make itself extinct. It’s so easy to hit Wal-Mart as it’s such a big target (pun intended) but it’s what we truly want. Bargaining is a basic human need as food and sex, if you think about it. Bargaining is […]

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Is it real, or Desenex?

^q¬dt face=”Courier New, Courier, mono”>Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, March 15, 2004. Reality TV shows are not reality. Even close. Just think about them with a little deliberation, and it’s obvious. Yet people watch them, and talk about them, as if they are. -30-

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The Passion of the Gimmick

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, March 9, 2004. "The Passion of the Christ." I have not seen the movie, though it’s been out a couple of weeks. I am not curious about it, the way I have been about other movies about Christianity, and so may not see it anytime soon. It’s not the […]