Thursday, September 15, 2005

Daily Tar Heel fires columnist for inflammatory column on profiling, but not for the inflammatory part. 4:25:43 PM   permalink   comment []

Danny Wright says Life's Rich Pageant is the best REM album. Michael Stipe reportedly called it REM's most REM-like recording. I'll always have a soft spot for Murmur and the original Chronic Town EP, although I guess that shows my age...when I was courting Lisa I spent a goodly chunk of my reporter's salary to scalp third-row tix to Radio City for the Document tour, so while I think that's a pretty fine record I may just be sentimental. Unfortunately Document made them rock stars, but fortunately they got good again after the Green/Losing my Religion phase and I can listen to some of their later stuff quite happily. 3:15:55 PM   permalink   comment []

Word is that while I'm speaking to the Bar Association this evening, a select group of local GOP bigwigs will be dining with Karl Rove here in Greensboro at the home Ambassador Wos. A free EdCone.com virtual tote bag to anyone who files a report on the event... 3:04:29 PM   permalink   comment []

N&R contributing reader Jill Wilson reports from Israel. 10:00:19 AM   permalink   comment []

I'm on the schedule to speak at tonight's meeting of the Greensboro Bar Association. They serve cocktails before the program. Should be fun. 9:26:29 AM   permalink   comment []

NYT's Jodi Kantor says What to Expect While You're Expecting has become a scare-mongering tome that freaks out mothers-to-be with horror stories about pregnancy. Apparently they've made it worse since we finished breeding back in the early '90s. I think Lisa found things to fear in the book, but I have to confess that I didn't pay too much attention to it -- I guess the dads who read it are the same ones who turn down drinks by saying, "No thanks, we're pregnant." Yes, they are out there, which is pretty scary in itself. The book I remember is the next one, What to Expect the First Year. It has all these month-by-month benchmarks for baby's development -- if your three-month-old can focus on a small object as it moves before her eyes, that's above average, if your four-month-old can solve differential equations, that's pretty damn good, etc. I always figured that anything my kids weren't doing on schedule wasn't important, and anything they did ahead of the curve indicated future greatness. I was right about the first one. These days, I'm more interested in books on raising teenagers. 8:35:33 AM   permalink   comment []

Mr. Sun does some reporting on the resources available to emergency services providers. 8:15:52 AM   permalink   comment []