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Fri, Nov 20 2009 

Sam Pollak

Politics, sports mix heartache and triumph

There is only one guarantee about sports and politics _ follow them long enough, and it's only a matter of time until they break your heart. The candidate to whom you would gladly donate a kidney gets swamped at the polls.Mighty Casey strikes out. ....more>>

  • What to do when nothing is good for your health
    I’ve done some exhaustive research on the matter, and I’m afraid there’s nothing to be done other than to face the awful truth with a steely resolve.
  •  Ignorance, abductions conversions are such fun
    One of the genuine joys of my job _ and golly, there are oh, so many _ is that I get to spend part of my work day trolling the Internet looking at stuff.
  •  Not looking forward to looking back
    What will they think of us? What caricature of who we think we are will be pictured by our great-grandchildren? OK, so we probably won't mind much no matter how unflattering it might be because we shall happen to be dead at the time.
  • What I don't know can really hurt
    A man is telling a simpleton that a thermos bottle keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold. “But how,” asked the puzzled listener, “does it know what’s supposed to be hot, and what’s supposed to be cold?” As for me, I’ve got this swell company-owned cell phone that I also use as an alarm clock. It has a setting to go off just on weekday mornings.
  •  The birth of a notion for ignorance
    "Education is dangerous," said Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's second-in-command and head of the Luftwaffe. "Every educated person is a future enemy."
  •  Barnes is the gold standard in PR field
    Over the last decade or so, it must have seemed to Maggie Barnes that my main ambition was to make her professional life as miserable as possible. Truth be known, it wasn't my main ambition. Just kind of a nice fringe benefit.
  •  The worst thing we can do in life is give up
    It was one of those moments when cruel reality intrudes upon delusion, and you wish cruel reality would just mind its own business for a change.
  •  Miss California controversy is anything but thing of beauty
    For all you husbands out there, which of these constitutes the greater threat to your traditional, heterosexual marriage?
  •  Torture is un-American as it gets
    Didn't then-President George W. Bush say in a news conference on Nov. 7, 2005, "We do not torture"? Then why did we torture suspected terrorists _ some guilty and others innocent _ dozens and even hundreds of times?
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