What Fires You Up?

4/02/2004

 

New links of note and recent mention are added in the sidebar. Enjoy!

BJ 4/02/2004 09:31:00 PM

 

Our True Blue American Fool
Go to Resource.full to see the image I found at the People's Republic of Seabrook blog today. How I wish I could post this image on this site directly! I've still been hearing (translate: reading online> that folks going from the free hosting on Blogger have problems upgrading to the paid hosting, alas.

And for the record, here is a new blog related to cobalt: Eldercare and Disability Blog

For those interest in eldecare, disability care and dependent care, that blog is collecting links and stories of interest to adults with disabilities and their family and friends. Just today I joined the activist organization ADAPT to join with other's action to get attention and legislation changed in the US to offer real alternatives to the present bias towards institutions that are institutions, but not "named" that way. Urgent action needed to support these efforts prior to the April 7 meeting with Iowa's Charles Grassly in Washington! For more information, go to American Association of People with Disabilities, a cross-disability organization of activists. These are the folks that put on the "Crawl" at the Department of Health and Human Services last month. Also check out NOD, the National Organization on Disability and Half the Planet.

BJ 4/02/2004 08:59:00 PM

3/28/2004

 

Ruling Another Step Toward Police State
Dan Gilmor's blog today

From Resource.full part of the post this morning:

This tech author is also one of the best commentors on politics in America today. I've followed him for several years now. This story in his blog today I found through going to the technorati site (see link in the righthand column of this blog). Check the Current Events feature, also Cosmos.

AP: Court Opens Door To Searches Without Warrants.

BJ 3/28/2004 10:40:00 PM

 

Without Bob Edwards, Maybe Not All Things Considered

I thought I heard it wrong, on a show the other day. But it turns out it is true, one of the most beloved commentators on radio has been fired from the morning "All Things Considered" show on NPR. What a terrible mistake this is! I've spent most mornings of the last few years waking up to this show. I've been a contributor to NPR stations in the places I've lived. There's a fund drive currently going on now in my area, and this definitely makes me think twice about contributing. I can add nothing more than to post part of the commentary by Linda Elberbee, quoted in the LA Times article with the link and snip below. Quel horror!

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-oe-ellerbee26mar26.story

COMMENTARY
All Things Weren't Considered

By Linda Ellerbee

"The television executive, who looked almost old enough to vote, explained to me that his network really did not care about anyone over 50.

"But we're not aging the way our parents did," I said. "We're reinventing the process. Besides, there are a lot of us out there."

Time, however, puts down whoopee cushions everywhere. This week, National Public Radio, apparently acting on the theory that if it's not broke, break it, announced that Bob Edwards was no longer its choice to host "Morning Edition," the program he began, shaped and — for the last 25 years — informed with his intelligence, wit and grace.

Although nobody came right out and said so, it's clear that the new honchos at NPR believe the man whose voice has soothed millions of us into day after day of too much reality is, at 56, too old for the task.

Were the ratings sinking, perhaps? They were not. "Morning Edition's" audience grew by 41% in the last five years; Edwards' is the most-listened-to morning radio program in the U.S.

A spokeswoman for NPR said only that the change was "part of a natural evolution." She said a new host would "bring new ideas and perspectives to the show." Uh-huh.

Edwards, who for 2 1/2 decades has shown up at the office at 2 a.m. to prepare for a two-hour broadcast that begins at 5 a.m., said he was surprised. "I never had plans to do anything else," he told a reporter. After his last "Morning Edition," on April 30, he will be "reassigned" as a senior correspondent for NPR."

BJ 3/28/2004 10:05:00 PM