It’s time to don the smoking jacket and settle down with the pipe, a glass of sherry and the latest edition of the Bacon’s Rebellion e-zine. You can be confident in the knowledge that you will not embarrass yourself when friends ask you which publication you read each morning. “Me? Why, I read Bacon’s Rebellion!”
According to the Critic’s Rant “Blog Readability Test,” the Bacon’s Rebellion blog reading level rates “college level.” That compares to high school level for The Washington Post, The Times-Dispatch and junior high school (snicker!) for the New York Times. As for leading Virginia blogs, look who else ranks “junior high school” — the lofty Not Larry Sabato and the rollicking Raising Kaine. Even the esoteric Barticles and the edifying Bearing Drift score only a “high school” rating.
I’m not saying we’re better than those blogs — just snootier.
Like clockwork, we have published the Nov. 26, 2007, edition of the Bacon’s Rebellion e-zine. Make sure you never miss an issue — click here for a free subscription that delivers the e-zine directly to your in-box. Here is what we offer for your enlightenment this week:
Vision Impaired
Jim Crupi is right about one thing: Richmond’s regional leaders lack strategic vision. They can correct that deficiency by throwing out Crupi’s policy prescriptions and doing their own thinking. by James A. Bacon
Giving Thanks for Times Shared
Those missing remain a part of Thanksgiving
by Doug Koelemay
Introduction to “The Estates Matrix”
by EM Risse
The Morphed Estate
The Fourth Estate has abdicated its responsibilities. Citizens can no longer rely upon the MainStream Media to provide the news they need to participate in a democratic polity and market economy.
by EM Risse
Gold Stars for Virginia
Virginia, with Fairfax County leading the way, has one of the highest rates in the country of students who take advanced high school courses — and score well on exams.
by Chris Braunlich
The Invisible Working Class
Blogger Bageant reveals the bleak prospects for Virginia’s working class, using Winchester as his laboratory. Why don’t elites care?
by Peter Galuszka
Turning Capitalism Loose on Roads
Government can barely maintain the roads it has. To expand highway infrastructure, the nation is turning by default to tolls and private investment.
by Kenneth Orski
Transmission Travesty
Virginia regulators are taking a go-slow approach to Dominion’s proposed high-voltage transmission line. But the feds are creating a mechanism that could bypass state authority.
by Barbara Kessinger
Nice & Curious Questions
Haunted Virginia: Ghosts in the Old Dominion
by Edwin S. Clay III and Patricia Bangs