Weblogs came into mainstream consciousness this year. Even before Dan Rather was taken down weblogs were considered to be important enough to play roles in Presidental campaigns and to cover political conventions. Here’s my list of those who made 2004 the Year of the Weblog.
Power Line
Those three took down Dan Rather. Enough said.
Captain’s Quarters
This was […]
The Pentagon’s New Map by Thomas Barnett
Foreign policy wonks are using the terms “Core” and “Gap” when refering to fighting global terrorism. They were coined by Barnett while studying a map of where U.S. troops have operated in the past 10+ years. His thesis is that global stability, i.e. U.S. national security, requires a shrinking […]
Captain Ed has declared 01.12 to be World Relief Day. He would like his readers to donate their take-home pay on that day to World Vision for tsunami relief. I urge you all to donate early and often.
“CQ’s World Relief Day Set For January 12″
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I just popped open some champagne sparkling wine before it got past my folks’ bedtime. Earlier, I made myself a nice, thick ribeye steak. Yum! As you can see I’m posting a little tonight finishing the 2004 TAM Awards. If you want to ring in the New Year with me online send me an e-mail […]
Van Lear Rose Loretta Lynn
She may be old, but Loretta Lynn can rock. It helps to have The White Stripes’ Jack White helping with production and bringing in a backing rock band. But what shines on this is album Lynn’s storytelling. It starts off in the title song with a lovely tale of her mother […]
Lisa is thinking about reading the business bestseller Who Moved My Cheese? One of my specialties at my bookstore are business books. The truth is most of these books are awful reads. They’re trite, banal, and full of so many bullet points as to make them Powerpoint presentations printed on paper. Cheese may be the […]
Michele’s special. One reason is she has a shiny new U2 iPod. One thing I don’t understand with some iPod owners is why they don’t immediately fill it up. When I first got mine I put all the songs on my computer into the iPod folder and clicked the update button. Because I have slightly […]
Thank God for iTunes. It’s how I discovered a real treat in Paris, Texas new album Like You Like an Arsonist. I adore good power pop (think Goo Goo Dolls and Sugar), so when I listened to PTX’s “Bombs Away” I knew I needed to immediately get the rest of the album. All these […]
Americans are giving Millions of dollars for tsunami disaster relief. Here’s just one example:
John Hewitt is used to opening his checkbook when disaster strikes overseas.
The Virginia Beach entrepreneur, who typically gives a quarter-million dollars to charitable organizations each year, says he expects to provide as much or more to help buy food for victims of […]
A few years ago, the bright spot for AT&T was its wireless unit. AT&T Wireless got spun off. Earlier this year, it merged with Cingular. Now, AT&T will be going back into the wireless business by using Sprint as its backend. It just has to get back the AT&T Wireless name from Cingular.
It’s stories like […]
The best way to deal with natural disasters is to be rich enough to take precautions and have the resources available to handle the aftermath. Only when a nation like Sri Lanka is rich enough can she seriously contemplate a tsunami warning system. Madsen Pirie on the Adam Smith Institute weblog offers some ideas to […]
Bryan at Arguing with Signposts… and Steven Taylor are both peeved at the tsunami Monday morning quarterbacking. Bryan writes,
The key thing that seems to be escaping peopel about this event is that this is a *once in a century* event. Not a very high priority on a list with a region facing civil war, poverty […]
QandO has links to weblogs that scold President Bush for not doing enough for tsunami relief efforts. An easy dead horse to kick is Juan Cole who complained about the “hundreds of billions” spent on the Iraq War while castigating Bush for initially offering $15 million, “a mysteriously chintzy response.” These people want to fund […]
Hell hath no fury like a newspaper columnist scorned. The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Nick Coleman took up an entire column to rant about Power Line. This must be one of the few cases where a MSM columnist focused on a single weblog. I’m sure many Twin Cities readers where wondering what a “blog” is. John […]
As the body count goes up I become more numb. Now, there’s word 3,000 people may have died on one stretch of beach in Thailand.
I’ve had a problem with some media coverage of the tsunami disaster. On Sunday, CNN had the most coverage. Fox News decided talking about Michael Jackson’s upcoming trial was more pressing. […]
