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News, Spin

Nader’s nadir

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, June 1, 2004. Ralph Nader won’t hurt John Kerry, and if he does, the tall Brahmin will deserve the loss. Just like Al Gore. I don’t believe Nader cost Gore the election. Nevermind the numbers and the Electoral College; the number indicate damage. But that’s not the point. If […]

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Technical Difficulties

Three shots

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Tuesday, May 19, 2004. I just realized something about procrastination that books on self-improvement never mention, nor do interviews with so-called personal coaches. It must be because they’re not procrastinators. If they only realized, if they only understood, this. I’ve got a couple of notes made last Saturday noon while […]

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News, Spin

Down to the level

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, May 5, 2004. A note about the U.S. MPs’ sexual and general humiliation of Iraqi civilian/military detainees. Here’s The New Yorker’s link to photos and articles. Jews are not supposed to make Holocaust comparisons lightly and don’t want non-Jews to make any at all. This, however, must be a […]

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Body, Home, Street

Half empty or half full?

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock May 3, 2004. For weeks I’ve been wondering about the new logo for my hometown’s Walton Arts Center; it can be viewed here. The newspaper articles quoted several laudatory remarks about it. It obviously was professionally designed — a circle of W’s that also configure a star. But it also […]

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Technical Difficulties

The medium needs a massage

Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock May 1, 2004. I keep starting funnier “Bricks,” but anger keeps cropping across the pad with ink, the typewriter (a royal Royal standard jettisoned in 1979 by the Fort Smith newspaper), this iBook keyboard — the medium indeed does not matter. I’ll settle for coherency, dribbling wit as needed. Coherency […]

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Education, Coarsely

Commencement for one

Tea for two, commencement for one Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock April 10,25, 2004. To a graduating high school senior, whose identity I’m not otherwise revealing. This is advice about your coming college experience. These comments are not "nice." If anyone disagrees, fine; I could be wrong. That sentence was written by the nice me. […]