Miller with wife Shirley and the Labs, Gus and Woodrow, at home in Young Harris. (LOUIS SOHN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST)

By Steve Hendrix
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 17, 2002; Page C01

Zell Miller is cooling the heels of his black cowboy boots in a White House lobby. The junior Democratic senator from Georgia is crowded into the small anteroom with five other senators and their hangers-on. All are former governors, waiting here beneath the varnished oil views of early America to discuss homeland security with another former governor, George W. Bush

A really nice piece on our "junior" senator.  A demonstration of principles versus partisanship in how Miller manages his decisions in the Senate.

5:12:42 PM    

Economics 101

Doc Searl's blog about Britt Blaser's thoughts, especially those defining why netizens, or for that matter other succesful intelligent citizens, are failing to act or to respond in any manner to today's political scene is thought provoking.  Not sure I agree such folks are in a "depression" -- kinda looks like procrastination or laziness.  The political economists discuss it in terms of transaction costs being too high -- course you need to weigh the convenience cost of ignoring the effects of the system on your life versus the transaction cost of participating before economics is truly accounted for in this case.

11:13:40 AM    

Books for the Asking

FTER spending a year trying to sell her book to publishers and receiving 70 rejection letters as a reward, Laurie Notaro, a newspaper columnist in Phoenix, decided to do it herself. Working with iUniverse, one of many companies that offer "print on demand" services, Ms. Notaro paid $99 to have her book designed, laid out, stored as a digital file and printed and bound only as copies were ordered. Several months later she sold the rights to her book, plus the concept for a new one, to a major publisher for a six-figure sum. [NY Times Oct 17]

Presents a tempting means of digitizing the materials professors often assemble for their courses.  Of course, copyrights and permissions remain a problem...

 

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