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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 […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Aug. 6, 2004: After conducting all the research that’s necessary — licked my right index finger and held it up — I finally can make a prediction on the presidential race: Kerry will win in a landslide. I know the polls still show neck-and-neck, with less-than-expected bounce for Kerry […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2004. Newspapers are suffering because they’ve lost both anger and humor, Jimmy Breslin said in a Poynter interview in late July. My slight spin would be that we’re trying too hard to be nice. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette colleague Jennifer Hansen wrote a few Wednesdays ago (no free hyperlink […]
Constitutional separation of church and press Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, July 26, 2004: I want to toss an endorsement to the defense of the First Baptist Church of Springdale and its senior pastor, Ronnie Floyd. An self-proclaimed do-gooder group is trying to sic the IRS against them, citing church-state separation, because Floyd in […]
Looking good in an agora sweater Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, July 19, 2004: I raised a somewhat complex question in my previous essay. I’ve thought more, and I have a rough answer. The nature of a Web log such as Brick, however, is that it puts the newest material first. It’s Jeopardy: Here’s […]
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Friday, July 16, 2004: I see it as a void, a vacuum that nature abhors, that will be filled no matter what. Its name I don’t know: Maybe it’s so obvious I cannot pin it down. If so, I hope it is not trite, like, "Life, kid." It is the […]