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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
^q¬dt face=”Courier New, Courier, mono”>Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Monday, March 15, 2004. Reality TV shows are not reality. Even close. Just think about them with a little deliberation, and it’s obvious. Yet people watch them, and talk about them, as if they are. -30-
Copyright 2004 Ben S. Pollock Saturday, March 13, 2004. Green tea from red China. Nice, but no one says "red China" anymore. -30-