Sunday, January 09, 2005

I'm scheduled to be on the Brad and Britt show tomorrow morning at 7:35, FM 101.1, talking a little Armstrong Williams and whatever else comes up... 9:32:24 PM    comment []

More blog-crit of the Harvard conference, including comments at the conference site, and now this email from the redoubtable Chris Nolan, who writes: Is it me or is that Blogging and Credibility seminar -- invite only! -- a kangaroo seminar? The Harvard folks and their counterparts running Big Media are coming to sniff over the pajama-wearing competitors, pat themselves on the back for their open-mindedness and go home safe in the comfort of knowing they have millions more readers, larger marketing and ad budgets than anyone running some crummy-ass website...   ...No Marshall. No Sullivan. No Reynolds...(No) Denton -- who has had some smart things to say about ethics on line for his reporters -- and Calacanis.   Hmm. I didn't draw up the list, I'm happy to be on it (I assume I've got something to add on the realm of local blogging), I look at it and see a lot of people who are eloquent and passionate and knowledgable about the intersection of blogging and journalism. Would I like a larger group of bloggers? Sure. And I think the News & Record's John Robinson should be there. But any big media type who leaves complacent deserves their fate. 5:51:50 PM    comment []

Howard Coble: US should consider withdrawing from Iraq. The Republican Congressman from Greensboro tells the N&R, ""All I'm saying is that a troop withdrawal ought to be an option. It ought to be placed on the table for consideration." According to writer Stan Swofford, "Coble said he is seriously considering raising the issue of a troop withdrawal with his subcommittee." Coble chairs the House Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security. "Coble said he has noticed a shift among his constituents in the 6th Congressional District regarding their feelings about the war. Letters, phone calls and messages that had been overwhelmingly supportive of the war are now about even, his office said." 9:50:46 AM    comment []

Glenn Reynolds is something of a polymath, but his understanding of barbecue could use a bit of context. Here Instapundit proclaims the virtues of "tomato-based Alabama/Tennessee-style barbecue," in supposed contrast to North Carolina-style. Yet it would seem that the 'cue in those states is made the way we make it here in the Piedmont. It is only in the scrublands of eastern North Carolina that they pour nearly unadulterated vinegar on their pork. That said, I did use the phrase "like putting ketchup on barbecue" recently to describe a travesty (the end of home-and-home scheduling in ACC basketball). All things in moderation. I would hazard a guess that recipes for barbecue (and barbecue sauce) made their way south and west from the North Carolina Piedmont with the many settlers who moved on to those places from here (the name Reynolds is itself a familiar one along the old Wagon Road that ran from Philadelphia to this region). Let us not forget the real heretics in this cosmology. 9:44:14 AM    comment []