I’ll be on vacation through next week, so the posts will be few and far between, or not at all.
I’ll be back July 13, unless something pressing prompts me chime in sooner.
Have a fine Fourth.
July 2, 2009
A Break
July 2, 2009
Summer Tunes
Sources close to the solstice claim it’s summer. Judging by our recent Octoberish weather, I can’t confirm that.
But apparently it’s true. And I ran across Entertainment Weekly’s list of the top 100 summer songs of all time.
It’s a fairly predictable list. “Summer in the City” by The Lovin’ Spoonful is No.1. There are three Beach Boys [...]
July 2, 2009
Tea Party Serves CR Media Lumps
Sometimes, an e-mail ends up in some unintended in-boxes.
On Tuesday, Tim Pugh, a driving force behind a Cedar Rapids Tea Party protest event on July 4th, sent an e-mail providing his personal assessment of several local media types/organizations.
It looks like it was supposed to be for Tea Party eyes only. The bad news for Pugh is that the e-mail [...]
July 2, 2009
Thursday Column — In with a tweet, and lots of questions
So Christian Fong couldn’t wait.
The Republican Cedar Rapids marketing executive kicked off his run for governor with a Twitter tweet. Contrast that with the last GOP nominee, Jim Nussle, who entered the 2006 race with glitzy fanfare usually reserved for presidential hopefuls. We’ve gone from bunting and balloon drops to 140 characters on my BlackBerry.
Nussle [...]
