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The Remains of the Day, 3/8/09


And, in yet another atttempt to get rid of open but unblogged tabs in not one but two browsers, I give the remains of the day:

1. Two more posts at Feminist Peace Network for International Women’s Day (which was today):

IWD in Iraq

IWD celebrations from around the world

2. Glass City Jungle’s Lisa Renee Ward posted a very interesting audio clip from her appearance on Conklin & Company.  The more general topic discussed is blogger ethics and the line we draw regarding what information we will and won’t post.  The more specific topic has to do with another NW Ohio blog, Swampbubbles, using information from the MySpace page.  Very interesting. This post by Lisa seems to be a reasonable wrap-up of what was going on as it was going on.

3. Fem2pt0 is hosting a Twittercast tonight on the topic: Does appealing to progressive objectives by using our respective parenting roles undermine the feminist ideal of no pre-determined societal roles? Marc Chimes is the special guest – he’s a single parent and former PTA president, among many other things.  Go read the post for more information on the topic – it’s very interesting.

4. Many people may have seen this already but I think it’s worth posting – more than 700 people have applied for a janitor’s job in a Canton area school.  It pays $15-16/hour plus benefits. 700 people, people.

5. From the nominal head of the Grand Old No Party on The Hill, John Boehner issued a statement on President Obama visiting Ohio – because Boehner had nothing better to do. O.M.G. When are he and his mates going to get anything done? Do they realize what they’re doing to themselves? I know – that was a really dumb question.

6. Oye! Oye! Oye! Twitter in the court! Twitter in the court!

7. This really does deserve its own post but it was in the queue of the tabs.  I was on the SPJ Cleveland Pro Chapter for several months and respect and like very single one of the individuals I’ve ever met through the chapter.  They are genuine and long-serving communicators from many different areas of work. But I stepped down eventually because I felt that service on the board was not the best use of my time, in part because of how actions it was taking (or was failing to take) reflected precisely the attitude evident in the most recent message from its current chapter president. In pertinent part, about why newspapers are having it tough:

But the problem today is really with advertising. Everyone blames newspapers’ problems
on advertising’s shift to the Web.
And this is where I’m lost.
Because nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, whether they are 18 to 35, 36 to 70, older,
younger–nobody ever admits to reading advertising on Web sites.
I spend time on-line, but I don’t consider myself a heavy Internet user. And I generally
don’t read ads on Web sites. But even friends who pay their bills, plan their vacations and buy
their clothes via the Internet say they don’t read ads. They use Web sites, they use links, they
get RSS feeds, they’re on-line hours at a time. But all profess to jump over those pesky ads.
Marketers talk about hits, the number of people who visit a Web site where ads appear.
But “hits” won’t pay the bills. “Hits” are not reading.
So I think we need some evidence that people don’t really read Web advertising.
Which should send advertisers back to print.
Which should save newspapers.

This is a serious proposal.  But in 2009, this cannot be a serious proposal.  And that is the problem I felt I was up against.

8. Eric Mansfield does an extraordinary job of covering the killing of five in Cleveland three days ago.

9. The Cleveland Scene on the Cleveland redistricting fiasco – called, “Fine I’ll do it myself.”

10. And a Rush Round-up

Dueling banjos at BlogHer:

Limbaugh ≠ GOP

Limbaugh = GOP

Newt Gingrich on Rush (video there too):

“You’ve got to want the president to succeed,” said the former House Speaker. “You’re irrational if you don’t want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn’t succeed the country doesn’t succeed… I don’t think anyone should want the president of the United States to fail. I want some of his policies to be stopped. But I don’t want the president of the United States to fail. I want him to learn new policies.”

Alec Baldwin at HuffPo on Rush:

Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America.

I hope to God the GOP gets its act together soon and finds a real leader for their Party. Rush Limbaugh as the spokesperson for the GOP? 2010, I can’t wait.

Ellen Goodman on Rush and the women’s summit

Anastasia Pantsios on Connie Schultz’s column about Rush and the summit

I’ve pretty much been unable to even go to his site to follow up on his following up on the women’s summit because I can’t get the CPAC image of pulchritude out of my head – I just do not feel like torturing myself.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:29 pm March 8th, 2009 in Cleveland+, Media, Ohio, Politics, Remains of the Day, Republicans, conservatives, social media 

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