Category Blogging

The power of blogging

Recently I posted about Glasgow to Detroit, a documentary by Don MacKeen concerning urban farming in these two post-industrial cities. Don is an American expat living in Glasgow and had emailed me about the film. After the post appeared here,…

WordPress. Jetpack bloated, slow.

This blog was acting sluggish. My webhost said something was eating up compute cycles because of large numbers of database hits. I deactivated plugins one by one and looked at the results after a couple of days but there was…

Oh, the places you’ll go*

We all have blogs we visit which have become a part of our daily lives (besides this one, of course). Here are several of mine: Lawyers, Guns and Money and Balkinization are two of my favorite legal sites. Dead Confederates…

It makes a difference

I was out in the pickup the other day when I noted a rather small, perhaps two by three inch, bumper sticker in the window of a jacked-up, de-engineered suburban assault vehicle with tires the size of Volkswagons and a…