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Technical Difficulties

A secure site?

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, March 22, 2005. How can you tell if a Web site is not secure? It’s easy to tell. Hey, who are you? What do you want? Can I believe you? Will you like me? They are after me, don’t say they’re not. What’s that, you say? I’ll never amount […]

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Technical Difficulties

PromisesPromises1

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Monday, March 7, 2005. Testing, 1, 2, 3. Testing 1-2-3. Is this thing on? Is this up? Hello? Hellooo! Damn. Maybe try again in a day or two. -30-

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American Culture

Second adolescence

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. The local paper ran a feature photo this morning of an old man playing pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey. I couldn’t tell what he thought of this; the blindfold covered most of his face. A photog grabbing this sort of shot is easy-pickin’s, just head to the community senior center. […]

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American Culture

Wascally wascals

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005: From Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal (while these quotes are complete, they are excerpts): “Hoping to breathe new life into its animated Looney Tunes franchise and prop up the WB television network’s slumping Kids’ WB line-up, Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros. is planning to launch a new […]

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News, Spin

Multiple choice

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Friday, February 11, 2005: One from Column A and one from Column B. Let’s play! ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Korea declared itself a de facto nuclear power Thursday, claiming in its strongest terms to date that it had “manufactured nuclear weapons” to defend itself from the United States. ASSOCIATED PRESS […]

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American Culture

Recipe for leadership

Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005. News item: Walter Sheib, White House chef for over a decade, is resigning “to pursue other opportunities.” At a period when departing Cabinet officials are being replaced, amid allegations about an administration cooking the books in intelligence and Social Security, now President Bush has to worry […]