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House cleaning

Cleaning out my RSS feeds. Not watching the Kirby Puckett thing. I liked the guy, fine, but I don't think there's anything left to say, so I doubt there's much more to hear. So on goes the old Ricki Lee Jones CD and up goes the laptop.

How closely to link to the White House? That's the issue Republicans who think they might live there one day had to wrestle with this weekend, according to the New York Times.

In interviews, officials attending the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here described themselves as shaken by mistakes that have afflicted the White House, culminating with the collapse of the deal to allow a Dubai company to manage six American port terminals. Several urged the president to bring in new advisers to avoid losses in the midterm elections ahead and three fallow years in the White House.

Jeff Jarvis at Buzz Machine has another one of his blurbs on blogging and its role in the universe. I don't know, frankly, how much any of the things like this are true or false but I do know the more you predict the future, the more likely folks will listen to you in this business and create it.

Journalism schools gave out degrees in PR (which I think is a mistake for both). PR became more powerful and lucrative. Spin became an art. Soon, everyone was no longer famous for 15 minutes; that