The Demzette reported yesterday that Arkansas’ new ban on smoking in workplaces also threatens ashtrays, at least on paper. “Although the law and a draft of the accompanying regulations authorize fines of up to $500 for a misdemeanor conviction and civil penalties of up to $1,000 a day when an ashtray is discovered on the […]
In a televised address to the nation, President George W. Bush tonight is expected to announce an executive order reducing the maximum highway speed to 55 mph. You heard the speech was to be about immigration? Well, we will see. Another two-term Republican, Richard M. Nixon, created the first 55 mph cap in January 1974. […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock What kind of shirt are you wearing today? If it’s a T, does it have writing or some graphics? Yes, pretty much everyone wears logo-Ts. This one: Did you buy it, bub, or with luck was it free? Wha’? Well, if you’re wearing advertising, the least you can expect as […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock St. Nick came from a family himself, but little is known about them. One relative everyone has heard something about is Grandfather Claus, who is Santa’s brother, with obviously a family of his own, children and their children. Santa as everyone does know rewards good little girls and boys with […]
Falling into the bloggers’ venue of commenting on every darn thing is not the plan of Brick, but when everyone’s doing it? Topic: The 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner’s keynote address by satirist Stephen Colbert. I had not been a major fan of the new series The Colbert Report (pronounced unctuously Colbere Rapport), much preferring […]
I’m no teetotaler, but remarks like this just make me stop and wonder. The article, in the Wednesday, April 26, 2006, Wall Street Journal, by Sarah Ellison, is about Anheuser-Busch Cos. and its chairman, August Busch III. Mainly it explains the purpose it — and the other major American breweries — has had since World […]