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5 tracks that I most recently bought from iTunes.
Coldplay, “The Scientist” Etta James, “At Last” Obadiah Parker, “Hey Ya” Zero 7, “In the Waiting Line” The Shins, “New Slang”
5 idioms my wife finds unconvincing when I use.
Great day in the morning I tell you what My biscuits are burning! Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you What in tarnation?
Orchid Island’s slave-free juice.
It’s tough to know what businesses to patronize and which not to when looking at issues beyond basic quality. Some folks won’t do business with anti-union companies, others won’t support manufacturers with CEOs who contribute to Democrats. You could go nuts figuring out which businesses warrant a personal boycott and which deserve support. But if …
Not like that liberal cesspool of Chesterfield.
I’m not what you might call a fan of Lauren Winner’s quarter-life-crisis whinging. (I’m a lesbian! No, I’m celibate! I’m Buddhist! A Buddhist Jew! A fundamentalist! Somebody look at me, please!) Look no further than “Girl Meets God” to get the measure of the woman; she flits between religions like some people change outfits, but …
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Virginia’s growing ranks of community blogs.
The fourth and fifth community blogs in Virginia has just come into being: Petersburg People’s News and West of the Boulevard (Richmond). I started cvillenews.com six years ago next week. Then cvillenews.com alumnus John Murden started Church Hill People’s News 2.5 years ago, for his Richmond neighborhood, which is wonderfully local in its interests. And …
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Interview with Peter Griesar.
A little over six years ago I interviewed my friend Peter Griesar for DMB fan site nancies.org. I was happy with how the interview came out and, with some time and distance, I think I like it even more. Here’s the article. Peter Griesar calls out from across the parking lot. “I’ve got two glasses …
The odds of this blog entry are one in a trillion.
The AP reports that the odds of last night’s three-way tie on Jeopardy were one in 25 million. Bullshit. Journalism is an attractive major for those who want to avoid taking math classes, but media outlets have got to start providing remedial courses to avoid this sort of foolishness.
The honeybee in our coal mine.
NYT: Honeybees — pollinator of our plants and provider of much of our food — are dying off in absolutely staggering numbers. A third of all everything we eat is courtesy of a honeybee. The cause? Unknown, but it’s almost certainly triggered by humans, directly or indirectly. The solution? Nobody knows.
Rethinking Clovis.
There’s an exciting new theory about the peopling of the Americas: Clovis was a technology, not a group of people. The spread of Clovis points turns out not to be a measure of the spread of a population but, rather, the spread of a great new idea among an existing population. (Via Slashdot)