Friday, September 09, 2005

People with whom I spoke today, on the phone or in person, with resultant good vibes reverberating: Dave Sifry, my mom, Dave Winer, Elijah, Sydney, Ralph Davison, Wes Elingburg, Ed Baker, John Irvin Jr., Mike Berent, Luna, Lisa, and Michael Christopher. 8:14:50 PM   permalink   comment []

Jim Buie: "It's not really surprising to me that my native state of North Carolina is getting so much national attention as a leader in the blogging trend. The state has always nurtured and honored its homegrown writers." 4:10:35 PM   permalink   comment []

Brownie, partially baked. A half-measure is better than none, I guess. Mr. Sun plays the blame game. 4:06:17 PM   permalink   comment []

Patrick Eakes has nice things to say about Triad Stage. I'm looking forward to hearing what Laurelyn Dossett comes up with for Brother Wolf. 10:59:01 AM   permalink   comment []

Gate City on the decline of the Jaycees and the (possible) salvation of the GGCCKGGO. Choice lines: "When you give away $400,000 a year you make friends even with people who hate you." "Brazil came in, saved the tournament, got his bosses fired, and created for himself a huge promotion. He now is for all intents and purposes the head of one of the most prominent non-profits in the area." 8:45:03 AM   permalink   comment []

Ron Bailey: "Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Bioethics Council, is stepping down and will be replaced by Georgetown University bioethicist Edmund Pellegrino. Last year Kass oversaw the removal of a couple of members of the Council who dissented from his conservative views on biotechnological progress and replaced them with three much more conservative and much more tractable members... Pellegrino's appointment as chairman of the President's Bioethics Council will, if anything, increase that body's opposition to a lot biotechnological progress." (via Instapundit). 8:36:29 AM   permalink   comment []

Interesting obit in the N&R for Colonel Ya Ba. 8:28:24 AM   permalink   comment []

Reading Friedman for Greensboro...Today, we feel a little better about the N&R dropping the column, or at least admit that nobody missed much by skipping today's effort, as TF overinvests in analogizing US troops in Iraq to the levees around New Orleans. In an open letter to Iraqi leaders of all parties, he says they must get behind the constitution and civil government because who knows how long the US will stay post-Katrina, and if we leave when things are still unsettled then all hell will break loose. All true enough, just not quite the level of insight one wants from the nation's preeminent foreign affairs columnist. 8:15:07 AM   permalink   comment []

From a lukewarm review by Alessandra Stanley of the terrrible-looking sitcom The War at Home: "There is still some satisfaction in seeing parents belittle and neglect their offspring." I know it works for us. Bonus NYT review line of the day: Stephen Holden ravages An Unfinished Life, which stars 130-year-old Robert Redford and JLo for being a "solemn, sentimental bore of a movie that suffocates in its own predictability and watered-down psychobabble [and] presages Oprah-worthy healing." 8:05:26 AM   permalink   comment []