Portishead makes the top 10.

When Portishead’s Dummy came out in the fall of 1994, I was in complete awe. In my 16 years, I had never heard anything like it. Trip-hop barely existed yet, consisting only of Massive Attack’s Blue Lines, which had hit the U.S. a couple of years previous. Though Blues Lines was good, it hadn’t gotten …

VPTC Blogging Panel Tomorrow

I’ll be speaking at a Virginia Piedmont Technology Council panel on Thursday (tomorrow). The 90-minute lunch, “‘Casting for Customers,” is all about blogging and business. Sean Tubbs, Edward Cossette, Michael Prichard and I will talk about how businesses can embrace blogs, take part in the Charlottesville blogging community, and use it for the betterment of …

The Jaded J.D. says that not just a dangerous trait, but one of the problems with the Republican Party. I think it’s a problem, though to a lesser extent, in the Democratic Party — abortion is a good example.