Among the advice people my age and older got when we went to college was to avoid campus protests — “even though, son, you agree with them” — because someone might take your picture. When you go for your first job, someone may remember seeing you in the paper. Worse, in 20 years when you […]
Copyright 2006 Ben S. Pollock It has come to my attention that I am mostly unable to predict the future. Also, I am told, for the most part I cannot shape the future. (If you prefer, substitute “we” or “you” for the “I” because this really is not all about me. It’s never about me […]
This thought I swear just came to me, but it’s so good it cannot be original. To whom to attribute it? Anonymous gets the best ones, and this isn’t quite that so how about George Carlin? Why is it that the check always is in the mail, but bills never get lost?” -30-
As a neutral comment on tall buildings in fayre Fayetteville, Arkansas, here is a suggestion: Head to the downtown Square and walk around the Bank of America building. It’s a half-block, all the way between Center and Mountain streets, facing East Avenue and stopping at an alley in back. The BofA is gone, and the […]
Which self is awed, which one is angry, which is embarrassed, which is confused by some ol’ story that ran in the newspaper days ago? My colleague the columnist Jay Grelen in Little Rock wrote Sunday of his long pursuit of an interview with novelist Harper Lee. He didn’t write it for publication just then; […]
Part of the definition of a right — a human right, a civil right (aren’t those interchangeable?) — is that they’re unalienable [or inalienable], to borrow and twist an independent, declarable phrase. Yet Alberto Gonzales the attorney general of the United States said on ABC’s “This Week” today there is some flex to the First […]