Tuesday, March 08, 2005

WordSang is explaining apostrophes. I can't wait til she gets to misused quotation marks. 3:51:33 PM    comment []

HahBlog: How to spot a working mother. 3:43:39 PM    comment []

Russlings: "Joseph, a Cameroonian elephant collared some years ago by the team which includes NC Zoo lead vet Mike Loomis, has been confirmed killed by poachers." 3:42:05 PM    comment []

Duncan Black: "Is it okay now to acknowledge that things in Lebanon are a bit messier (and, in fact, quite worrisome) than the 101st Fighting Keyboarders have been saying." Well, of course it's okay to acknowledge that the world is complex and dangerous, and that mindless cheerleading even for seemingly good things is tiresome and not particularly helpful. But it's OK to root for good things to happen, isn't it, even if they seem to flow from decisions that we opposed? 3:35:45 PM    comment []

Jesus talks with a Gay Man, via Relentless Grace. I know, Jesus was not a Christian, and he was himself a middle eastern man, and he never said homosexuality was a sin in the first place, but still. 3:23:05 PM    comment []

A 360-degree view of the Greensboro Coliseum last night, as seen from the court after Carolina's nice win over Duke in the ACC tourney final. (via Sue) 3:12:22 PM    comment []

Justin Catanoso reports some bad news: "Basil's Trattoria & Wine Bar, which has been a Greensboro mainstay for eight years, is planning to close at the end of the month." A beautiful space, and good food, too. We had many memorable nights there. Five years after the fact I can picture Elijah, age 8, sitting at the bar with his great-uncle Terry while we waited for a table; the family was gathering as my grandfather neared death, and his son and great-grandson seemed to find some special comfort in each other. More recently, and more happily, we celebrated Elijah's bar mitzvah there. Thanks for everything to Jim Noble and the crew. 9:11:08 AM    comment []

BizJournal: "A pair of developers are looking to turn more than 500 acres near the planned Dell Inc. plant into a large mix of homes and commercial space, providing another reason why land prices in the area have more than doubled in recent months." 8:52:00 AM    comment []

Garry Trudeau is not treading lightly around the death of HST, I'm sure the exploding head image will freak some people out. 8:40:27 AM    comment []

Garance Franke-Ruta: "Not only are most bloggers not journalists; increasingly they are also partisan operatives whose agendas are as ideological as they come...people who blog about politics and journalism aren't just a 21st-century media story' they're part of an ongoing political story with roots stretching back more than 40 years." 8:35:41 AM    comment []

Doug Clark fact-checks Marcus Kindley's N&R op-ed. Yes, he's correcting an article that ran in his own paper. So why not do so before the article runs? 8:28:12 AM    comment []

I finally saw a hard copy of the E&P article on the News & Record's public square project (still not posted outside the paywall). Very nice, probably too kind to me. JR already noted the minor errata he found, I will add that I am not a freelance writer as identified in the article, but have been a full-time staffer at ZD since 1999... 8:25:08 AM    comment []

More on the morally bankrupt bankruptcy bill, from Krugman: "Warren Buffett recently made headlines by saying America is more likely to turn into a 'sharecroppers' society' than an 'ownership society.' But I think the right term is a 'debt peonage' society - after the system, prevalent in the post-Civil War South, in which debtors were forced to work for their creditors." Also, Hoggard: "Although I have no one to blame but myself for our pre-cancer debt, the obscene (but legal and agreed to) practices of credit providers works to insure that, short of winning the lottery, my family will stay deep in debt with little hope of paying off what it actually owes despite heroic efforts to fullfil our obligations." And in Hogg's comments, Mr. Sun: "Without bankruptcy, I don't know that we'd have ever recovered." 8:20:52 AM    comment []

NYT editorial: "One of the biggest nonsecrets in Washington these days is the Central Intelligence Agency's top-secret program for sending terrorism suspects to countries where concern for human rights and the rule of law don't pose obstacles to torturing prisoners..." "Let's be clear about this: Any prisoner of the United States is protected by American values. That cannot be changed by sending him to another country and pretending not to notice that he's being tortured." 8:11:36 AM    comment []