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Gap Fire, 2:35, July 5
July 5, 2008 in Places, Geology, problems, Life, News, Events, Journalism
InciWeb just updated 8 minutes ago, with this report: Fire continued creeping to the north, east, and west with limited movement due to competing wind that kept the fire from making any significant runs. On …
Gap Fire 5 July 8:15am
July 5, 2008 in problems, Places, Life, Events, News, Health, Journalism
First, kudos again to Edhat’s news list for not only gathering info from many sources, but for giving equal weight to both professional and amateur sources — and for hosting a great many …
Gap Fire progress shots
July 4, 2008 in problems, Places, Geology, Life, Events, News, Travel, Health, Journalism
I’ve loaded too many pictures onto this blog, so for this round I’m going to just point to shots elsewhere: in this case to a photo set of maps built with .kml files from …
July 4 workfire
July 4, 2008 in Life, Future, Places, Events, Travel, Journalism, News, Politics, Uncategorized
Here is a Fox News video* that tours the Gap Fire area from the air. It’s clearly submitted by an amateur using a helicopter, judging from the monolog, flavored with casual explitives. To …
Jesse’s gone
July 4, 2008 in News
Among the most amazing things to me, during my many years as a North Carolinian, was the eagerness with which a majority of voters there elected, and kept re-electing, Jesse Helms to the U.S. …
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April 18, 2008 at 12:56 am
Jon Garfunkel
And that’s not even half of it. Did you catch the news on the book deal last month?
Gary Dauphin’s excellent reaction in TheRoot, WPNI’s smartly-written webzine, contains this gem:
“I’ll confess that part of my antipathy is just old-fashioned player hate. Nothing gets under my (colored, nearly-middle-aged) skin like the spectacle of a twentysomething white kid doing what twentysomething white kids do all the time, namely, play on some or another aspect of their race for smug fun and profit. Lander has already reportedly been offered a $350K-plus book deal from Random House. (Can a VH1 Special be very far behind?) People of color are constantly accused of playing various race cards, but ‘White boy makes good by being white’ is hardly a man-bites-dog story.”