Sermonette?
"That is sooo infantile." That is something said to a non-infant. It may be descriptive, but the purpose is to shame the person into not doing what is being labeled infantile again. As a shaming device, it works. OK, it does not work on me precisely, but it slows me down. Is the act infantile? […]
On an infamous morning like 9/11, the one five years ago, you don’t know what terror the afternoon will see. Evening finally came, and whether or not you had constant access to television during the day, you sure kept your eyes on the tube that night. To make sense of it? Yes, but more, so […]
Follow some literary logic down a rabbit hole If “Alice laughed: ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said; ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ “‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible […]
Among the advice people my age and older got when we went to college was to avoid campus protests — “even though, son, you agree with them” — because someone might take your picture. When you go for your first job, someone may remember seeing you in the paper. Worse, in 20 years when you […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock It has come to my attention that I am mostly unable to predict the future. Also, I am told, for the most part I cannot shape the future. (If you prefer, substitute “we” or “you” for the “I” because this really is not all about me. It’s never about me […]
This thought I swear just came to me, but it’s so good it cannot be original. To whom to attribute it? Anonymous gets the best ones, and this isn’t quite that so how about George Carlin? Why is it that the check always is in the mail, but bills never get lost?” -30-