Linkpost: 08/02/09
- Uncle Walter: Not so sadly missed (Mark Steyn, Macleans)
- Tax Burden of Top 1% Now Exceeds That of Bottom 95% (Scott Hodge, Tax Policy Blog)
- A Hole They Dug for Themselves (Steve Chapman, Reason)
- The L goes to Washington: White House becomes 51st Ward (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times)
- Teaching on tap at White House confab (John Kass, Chicago Tribune)
- Obama's ignorant attack on cops (Heather MacDonald, City Journal)
- Unteachable (Harry Stein, City Journal)
- From president to pundit (Steve Chapman, RCP)
- Stop calling it a "teachable moment" (Ruben Navarrette, RCP)
- Death of a doctrine: Obama discovers engagement's limits (Michael Gerson, WaPo)
- A post-racial president? (Thomas Sowell, RCP)
- Our angry aristocracy (Victor Davis Hanson, RCP)
- Obama's 32 czars (Eric Cantor, WaPo)
- There Is No ‘Right’ to Health Care (Theodore Dalrymple, WSJ)
- The Blue Dogs’ Final Dilemma is Health Care (Daniel Henninger, WSJ)
This struggle over health-care legislation isn’t just another battle between the Democratic and Republican parties. It’s about which force is going to take the United States forward for the next generation: the public sector or the private sector. If by now you haven’t figured out which sector you are in, then you’re a Blue Dog Democrat.
- Fannie Med (WSJ)
- The death of journalism, Gawker edition (Ian Shapira, WaPo)
- Intown Q&A with mayoral candidates (Off the Kuff)
- Don't treat firefighters like children (Rick Casey, Houston Chronicle)
- Next hurdle for Bagwell: Entry to Cooperstown (Steve Campbell, Houston Chronicle)
Bagwell has always steadfastly denied going down the PED route, and nobody has turned up any smoking specimen bottles with his name on it.
Neither clause in that sentence is untrue, but what Campbell is implying by putting those two clauses together -- that nobody has tied Bagwell to PED use -- is manifestly untrue. Steve Campbell's own colleague at the Chronicle Jerome Solomon has reported on his blog that Bagwell used andro, and that his source was none other than Bagwell himself. Now, andro was not banned by baseball at the time, but that does not change the fact that it IS a PED. When I asked Campbell on twitter why he didn't pursue that admission, he basically told me he wasn't his colleague's keeper (huh?), andro wasn't illegal at the time (agreed), he didn't have space to pursue that angle (never mind the multiple grafs devoted to Bagwell's denial of PED use), and that readers weren't interested in that story. Ultimately, it seems Campbell (and perhaps his editors) made the editorial decision not to go down that road in the story's discussion of PEDs. That's certainly their right, and fits the Chron's usual sports cheerleading preferences to a T. Nonetheless, a key bit of information was withheld from readers, information that doesn't completely fit the narrative above. - What If: The New New York Times (Michael Arrington, TechCrunch)
- 2005 Colgin IX Estate - Red Wine (The Wine Cult) It sounds like a nice bottle of wine, and it damn sure should be at Brix's list price of $691/bottle (the highest price wine on their list). And just to illustrate how the Texas system of wine distribution absolutely rips off Texas wine consumers, the best price on that wine on wine-searcher as of today is just under $200/bottle.
- Crus, the Better Beaujolais (Dave McIntyre, WaPo)
- I’m All Ears About Texas Wines and I am Giving Away Prizes (VintageTexas)
- Recession Puts Squeeze on California Wine Industry (Eric Asimov, NY Times)
- Dante's descendants face a new inferno (John Phillips, The Independent)
- Bad Apple: An Argument Against Buying an iPhone (Lifehacker)
- From the fates worse than death department… (Trent Seibert)
- Berlin Is Little More than a Beer-Drenched Tourist Paradise (Reinhard Mohr, Spiegel)
I have no idea why some of these little local pubs do it this way - 002 Magazine does as well - I find it really off-putting. It’s like they don’t want anyone to bother linking to them.On the other hand, it does make it rather more difficult to reproduce their copy.
That's what makes me nervous about calls for “zero tolerance” for sexist and racist behavior in the fire department.Besides, it could lead to zero tolerance for plagiarism, and THAT could mean trouble!
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/02/09 13:21 | Links | Technorati
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Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times!
And More Winners (Silver Award Wines)
I can’t take credit for the line “Taste, Tweet, Repeat”, but those were the instructions I gave to the assembled group of wine writers, bloggers and aficionados at the start of the first Texas Twitter Taste-Off held in Dallas this past weekend under the auspices of the GO TEXAN Drinklocalwine.com Conference.
people participated in the event either in real live flesh and blood or virtually by following, monitoring and retweeting the Twitter feeds from the invited media and guests from around the country.
Attendees of the tastr-off twittered and when you include the people following the tweeters and retweeters, the number of impressions on the Internet about Texas wines and wineries for the event totaled more than 200,000. That is incredible since in this day and age, a decent regional foodie magazine will only deliver 10,000 to 20,000 impressions per issue.
More info and gold and silver award winning Texas wines at: vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=1083
Posted by Russ Kane @ 21:57 on 08/19/09
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