Isn’t the Internet wonderful, with all of that information available in an instant? Crusty people like me have taken to it in varying degrees of speed and intensity, while everyone under 30, from most of my office to three nephews and niece (in their 20s), didn’t need to learn it, for high electronics is their […]
Let us consider “hero,” not this person or that but the word. To consider how this word is being used in the media is to review to whom it is applied. That’s unfair to the person in the headline — “A hero remembered: [City name here] memorializes hometown soldier killed by helicopter crash in Iraq” […]
One of the changes planned by the state Department of Education is to increase the teaching of world history by decreasing the time spent on Arkansas state history. The Legislature, however, mandated in 1997 one semester of state history between seventh and 12th grades. (The law and the new plan are explained a bit differently […]
Copyright 2007 Ben S. Pollock Men, I’m talking to you. This week we have a rare opportunity to clear up misunderstandings and clarify the Code. Real men don’t even try to understand the Code, but for the sake of our manliness we must learn a bit. This code also is known as gaydar, one fellow’s […]
“WASHINGTON (Wire Services)— Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced his resignation Monday, driven from office after a standoff with congressional critics over his honesty and competence. ‘I have lived the American dream. Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father’s best days,’ said Gonzales, the son of immigrants. “RICHMOND, Va. (Wire […]
Why I’m in journalism and not real business, Point 2001: I do force myself to save some salary twice a month, once to IRA things and the second to more-immediately available accounts. I do mutual funds, no-load indexed jobs just like neutral experts advise: Money market, stocks and bonds. This is called diversifying, and is […]