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News is …
News itself is becoming less of an easily digestible summary of events and more of a grotesque entertainment reality show with heavy emphasis on emotion and sensation and a swaggering comically theatrical sense of its own importance. — Aaron Swartz
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Damn, they know how to stroke my ego
Woohoo, I got an email this morning that this blog had been named one of the Top 100 Journalism blogs by The Daily Reviewer, which I wasn’t familiar with, but which seems to be a Web title of Times-Shamrock Communications in Pennsylvania. Whoops. It appears to have been created by Azure Web Design in the…
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Barn at the end of the road
This is a barn at what was the Stanley family homeplace, where my grandmother grew up in Southwest Virginia. I took it, among others, during a Stanley Reunion this past Sunday at the Caney Fork Baptist Church. This is way back in the hills; here’s a map of the area.