Dean’s World: Lubavitcher Hasid takes over hopeless South Bronx public school as principal, and turns it around 180 degrees.
I am pretty impressed!
Ya never know!
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 27, 2008
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Never lose hope
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 26, 2008
You’re reminded of this admontion in the oddest of places, sometimes.
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Blogging equity
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 26, 2008
Here’s an analysis of what the top 25 most financially valuable blogs might be worth.
Interestingly, some of the highest ones on the list, worth tens of millions of dollars or more, don’t make a profit.
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Key McCain endorsement, but not from Hot Air
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 26, 2008
Ed Morrissey (blogging at Hot Air?! what did I miss?) writes about Hugo Chavez’s “Anyone but McCain” declaration (via Insty).
The obvious observation, of course–so obvious I wasn’t going to make it, because it is almost trite–is that this is as strong an endorsement of McCain that anyone interested in freedom or democracy could hope for. This should include conservatives. Axiomatically. And indeed, this point is made by HotAir commenters.
What is extraordinary is that Ed, a great blogger, can barely bring himself around to make this point, and hedges so apologetically that it’s hardly worth the effort.
I don’t think it’s Ed, though. I think it’s Hot Air, the red-meat, no-things-in-moderation blog.
Which side, exactly, is Michelle Malkin on?
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At least there’ll be a future
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 25, 2008
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And another thing!
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 25, 2008
If you are logged into IM, why are you showing a “BUSY” status indicator?
Turn the fershlugginer thing off. That’s what’s called “BUSY.”
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Spiritual growth is for everyone!
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 25, 2008
Glenn Reynolds always struck me as an agnostic, at best, but it looks as if slowly but surely he is narrowing down the field of possibilities:
I don’t think that Bill Richardson is Judas. Of course, I don’t think that Hillary is Jesus, either.
Just think, a few months earlier along this road to Damascus and he could have saved Huckabee!
Posted in Faith and Works, Jocularity, Politics and Poker | 1 Comment »
After Eight
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 24, 2008
Eight o’clock — that’s when I really get things done in my office. When the phones stop ringing, everyone else is gone, their lights are out, the cleanup people have finished, and I can concentrate, focus, and then some, on what needs to get done.
Posted in Heart and spirit, Metropolis | 1 Comment »
Wrong fears
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 23, 2008
NETWORK SOLUTIONS SHUTS DOWN A WEBSITE under Islamist pressure. I’m guessing they wouldn’t respond to complaints from Baptists quite so readily.
UPDATE: Reader Antoinette Aubert emails: “Baptists don’t blow people up for disagreeing with them. Heck Baptists don’t even sue you for disagreeing with them. Thus does multi-culturalism make cowards of us all.” Or encourage violence and litigation.
I think Glenn — law professor, right? — just just nipped a piece of the truth on the way out there. The issue is not, really, having your server blown up. In fact, this is not a realistic risk in the vast majority of cases. That risk — and the ability of Muslim extremists to carry out the threatened violence — was overstated in the past, even though the fear of it was very real.
But litigation? Political pressure? Boycotting? Political correctness police? That is what Network Solutions is really afraid of. And for a major company to bow to that — not, in contrast, taking reasonable precautions to real threats of bloodshed — is where cowardice is, indeed, the appropriate term to use.
UPDATE: Here’s the pic.
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Twitter: What are you doing?
Posted by Ron Coleman on March 23, 2008
STOP THE MADNESS!
Two of my best Internet friends have invited me to Twitter. In case, like me, you are an old man or woman:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Oh my gosh!!! Can you imagine?!
Okay, let’s walk through this.
- I already have a wife who asks this question, quickly and frequently. Since the introduction of the Global Husband Positioning System (i.e., cell phones and IM) this has really gotten to be quite an exact science.
- I am already, as this blog painfully proves, preposterously self obsessed, and pushing my every thought, movement, crisis, challenge, failure and experience out to the waiting millions. Plus I have … a BlackBerry, okay? I need another… thing?! (what is it? an “app”? a “platform”? a “social space”? a canker sore?) to obsess over?
- No. Just no!!!
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