RhetoricVille

I didn’t set out to start a new blog tonight. I can’t keep up a great pace of posting in the two I have. But that’s how things worked out.
It happened this way. I wanted to allow readers to post comments freely here at Rhetoricville (yes, I do have a reader, thank you very much), […]

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When I first set up this blog, I made it possible to leave comments only if you were registered and logged in. Then I also made it impossible to register. So, duh, no comments.
I have fixed things. You can comment all you want without registering. I haven’t set up anything to deal with spam yet, […]

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Mackinaw Bridge 2005
I took this shot of the Mackinaw Bridge from a park to its north on an afternoon in late August 2005. You can barely see the Mighty Mac — an epic structure, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges — between the dark trees and bright blue sky.
“Look on my works, ye mighty, […]

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The Brits are way ahead of us on planning for the big Bird Flu pandemic. For example, leaders over there have put together a mass burial plan. They aren’t talking about it in public, but the BBC is reporting it, and has gotten its mitts on a copy, so you know it’s true. . . […]

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“At this week’s Media, Entertainment and Telecommunications conference, AT&T COO Randall Stephenson told his listeners that increased bandwidth was no longer of great importance to consumers. . . .” AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections “irrelevant”
The article goes on to quote Stephenson as saying that there is no discernible difference Comcast’s 6 Mbps and DSL’s 1.5 […]

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