So much for trying to improve my search engine rankings in Google-France… To a native French speaker, the headline might be understood as “To Arms, the Peasant Rebellion of the Bacon Is Here.” Bacon, as in the salted pork variety. (Let’s see what sense Google’s logic algorithm makes of that!) I suppose I could have written, “La Jacquerie du Bacon,” using Bacon as a proper name, but that didn’t look right to my Anglo eyes either.
What I like about the word “jacquerie” as opposed to French word “rébellion” is that it implies a peasant uprising — a rebellion of the dispossessed, as opposed to a dissension among the elites.
Anyway, yes, the Sept. 17, 2007, edition of Bacon’s Rebellion is now online. You can read it in its fullness and plentitude here. Unless you check your B.R. blog every day, you might miss the next issue. You don’t want that, so subscribe for free here.
Now, giving a voice to the oppressed, we offer the following for your blog reading pleasure:
A Bug in the Ointment
The relocation of Volkswagen USA to Fairfax County is a P.R. bonanza for Virginia. But is the region, already buckling under growth, prepared to handle the influx of 400 more jobs?
by James A. Bacon
Measuring Prosperity
There are two ways to increase the standard of living: Increase income and reduce the cost of living. Virginia policy makers focus on the one and not the other.
by James A. Bacon
Chambers of Secrets
A first-hand look at the old and new in London and in Richmond illustrates why legislative bodies remain living things.
by Doug Koelemay
Loosening the Beltway
Congestion on the Washington Beltway will ease at last when a private consortium builds new lanes, upgrades the roadway and uses variable-pricing tolls to establish free-flowing traffic.
by Leonard Gilroy
Virginia Values
State Republicans don’t have to apologize for “Virginia values” like liberty, limited government and the primacy of civil society. They just have to articulate them in a way that resonates with voters.
by Norman Leahy
The Highwaymen
The politicians have turned traffic cops into a scourge. They plague Virginia’s roads, arresting citizens for arbitrary laws and plundering their wealth under the guise of “abuser fees.”
by Mike Smith
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