It seems that the recent bankruptcy laws are so harsh that even our own government won’t enforce them. Via The Talent Show (who found it at TPMCafe): the Justice Department has announced that it will waive enforcement of portions of the new bankruptcy law for Louisiana residents and some Mississippi residents. They got it right: […]
Roch has some audio from Converge, a collection of brief comments from some of the participants.
By any measure, ConvergeSouth seems to have been a success. I enjoyed my time there Saturday. The talks were great, and it was a lot of fun meeting some of the local bloggers I’ve talked to only online. The organizers and session leaders did a great job, and it was nice how Ed floated around […]
Looks like ConvergeSouth has been a success so far. I’ll be there tomorrow for the Saturday session, hoping to meet a few local bloggers in person and absorb some knowledge and ideas.
There’s been a lot of coverage about the upcoming Greensboro City Council elections. However, living in High Point, I feel left out of it all. As far as I can tell, High Point has City Council elections coming up as well, but the only information I could find is this list of the candidates’ names […]
President Bush will be giving a “major speech” today: White House press secretary Scott McClellan characterized Bush’s planned remarks Thursday morning as a “major speech” that will address the connection between Iraq and the broader war against the al Qaeda terrorist network “in greater detail than he has before.”
Time has an article on the upcoming Narnia movies, wondering if they’ll maintain their Christian message. There will be an easy way to tell, they say: The White Witch: “That human creature is mine. His life is forfeit to me. His blood is my property.” Aslan (later) : “The Witch knew the Deep Magic. But […]
Watching Thomas the Tank Engine today with my 3 year old, it occurred to me that something’s not quite right on the Island of Sodor. No, it’s not the fact that the trains talk — although it is a little weird that their mouths don’t move. In the episode we watched, Sir Topham Hatt finds […]
Sunday’s News and Record had a set of columns on the opinion page debating the implications of peak oil. On the “Pro” side, Steve Yetiv argued that we need to start working on alternatives now to stave off the worst effects of the decline of oil production. Scott Tinker argued the “Con” side, saying that […]
Ed Cone brings us some excerpts from Krugman’s latest article, which talks about the ongoing Republican car wreck as it relates to helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Update: Ed also has a great takedown of Bush’s handling of Al Qaida in a response to this letter in the News and Record’s Letters to the […]
