Tuesday’s Blog Overload
Sometimes there are an overwhelming amount of posts to choose from. It’s manageable when there is a common thread, such as a news event tying them together. Today’s collection is all over the map.
Brian Wilder looks at race and the President-Elect:
All considerations aside, there is nothing conditional at all about his ethnicity. Technically, one could use the age-tested “One Drop” rule…if it was 1895 and America was still locked in the crushing grip of the Jim Crow laws.
Fortunately, for me especially, this is not 1895, and the idea of “claiming” a candidate because their African father just so happened to have relations with a white woman and conceive demonstrates the kind of ignorance that is usually reserved for those who don those fashionable white robes with the matching hoods.
Alison has gone back to work and it’s bittersweet:
As I told Maybelle this morning, “This is day one of work-family balance.” I am exhausted (Biffle observes that this is probably due to all the panicking last night and this morning) and feeling, as I predicted, very torn.
I am so happy to be back at work. It felt great to be in the classroom again today–to feel that energy, that confidence, the possibilities for interesting conversations crackling in the air around me. And at the same time I worried about Maybelle.
Eugene has pictures from Sunday night’s meet up at Amazon Grill, while JanetLee was unimpressed with Goose Creek. (Part of the problem may be that Amazon is near the Weapons Station. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a military base in the nice part of town.)
File this one under Giant Can of Worms: “Bridge Cyclist and Walkers Make Dangerous Combo.”
Next up Foodie Pr0n, don’t worry it’s safe for work. Well, as long as your keyboard can handles a little drool: Beignets, buttermilk cornbread, lemon poppy seed cake with Meyer lemon mousse, chocolate chai latte cookies and Italian wedding cake, oh my!
The Murray Blog suggests we don’t reach for calorie laden drinks to wash down the above.
However, Untamed Beer would probably suggest we reach for anything by the award winning Coast Brewery.
Moving right along to the uncategorized selections, Lou has a quick Windows 7 Installation review.
Uncle Zoloft has discovered FaceCrack.
If you live along the Hwy 17 Corridor north of Charleston National, you may be interested in an upcoming series of meetings on planning and development.
Parting look, Cottage Industrialist looks back at her inspiration:
I can remember sitting up on a high stool at a work table peering over a lightbox as one of my dad’s employees laid out a job. She worked with deft precision using only an exacto blade and rubber cement. She wore striped socks with toes in them, and she had kinky blonde hair.
I can remember rummaging through cases of type in the back room that was my dad’s office. Mismatched letters and odd bits of leaded ephemera. How I wish I could get my hands on those now!