Saturday, July 26, 2003

Now that the real tomatoes are here, it’s time to put them to the ultimate test – the tomato sandwich. No weak-ass grocery story tomato can stand up to the demands of anchoring a sandwich, but the garden-grown beauty I just ate had the right stuff. Technique is also important. It is absolutely critical that you thin-slice the tomato. Use white bread and don’t be shy with the mayo. Add salt and pepper to taste. Repeat as necessary. 2:51:14 PM    comment []

Last October I posed 20 questions about going to war in Iraq. A lot of them still seem like good questions. No matter what the answers, we need to win the peace and finish what we started. But we should understand how and why we went to war.   Related: Josh Marshall has picked up on the hawks’ new OK-we-lied meme. 2:30:32 PM    comment []

Interesting stuff in this document distributed by the Aycock Neighborhood Association. It includes a reasonable-sounding approach to Memorial Stadium, one that doesn’t attack the Baseball Boys or take sides in the downtown stadium referendum. And apparently there is a problem with motorcycle racing on Summit Avenue – a story I’d like to read more about in the N&R (it would be a good scoop for the Rhino Times, too). 12:25:10 PM    comment []

Self-editing. I removed a remark about the personal appearance of a jerk from an earlier post because it isn’t nice to make fun of a person’s personal appearance. I still call him rude names because of his behavior.   I bring this up because editing one’s weblog is a controversial subject this summer, fuel for an old-school geek flame war and fodder for more serious conversations, too.      Now if I was recanting my core allegations of jerkiness, I would not alter my first post, but respond to it with comments on my own site and maybe new posts about my change in attitude. In this case the song remains the same, I’m just imposing some standards on myself and improving the quality of my publication, so I'm happy to trim. EdCone.com will continue to abide by the vague but well-intentioned policy implied by today’s example. 12:06:59 PM    comment []