Category: Blogs and Blog Administration
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Note to Readers
Bacon’s Rebellion is experiencing technical difficulties — or, to be more accurate, our web server is experiencing technical difficulties. The website was down about three hours this morning, and some of the functionality has yet to be restored. The Cloud is far from perfect! We are aware of the problem, and we’re working on it.…
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Cancel Your Print Subscription, Save a Bundle, and Support Intellectual Diversity in Journalism
I cut the cord today — I stopped subscribing to the print edition of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. I’d been delaying the inevitable for a long time, but a 50-year habit of reading the newspaper over breakfast and coffee was hard to break. Here’s what did it for me: The print-digital subscription is $70 per month.…
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Racism and COVID-19 in Virginia
By Peter Galuszka “The Chinese Virus?” “Kung Flu?” Wuflu?” These are some pejorative and racist names being bandied about for what is technically known as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2. The disease associated with the virus is COVID-19. These distinctions are part of a column written by the Virginia Asian Advisory Board in…
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About that Annoying Delay…
We apologize for that irritating five-second delay it takes to open up the Bacon’s Rebellion blog. We experienced some blackouts yesterday, which our Internet Service Provider (ISP) diagnosed as a possible Denial of Service attack. Apparently, the attack was directed at Bacon’s Rebellion and not other websites on the same server. We will remove this…
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A More Urgent Question than Ever: Who Will Cover the News?
by James A. Bacon Governor Ralph Northam and the 2020 General Assembly has engineered one of the greatest assaults on the middle class in Virginia history. You would never imagine that from reading the coverage by Virginia’s news outlets, whose reporters and editorial writers are so in sync with the new Democratic majority that the…
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Finished with the Second Amendment Virginia Dems Now Attack the First (and Sixth)
By DJ Rippert Sticks and stones? Del. Jeffrey M. Bourne, D-Richmond, has introduced HB1627. The bill is entitled, “Threats and harassment of certain officials and property; venue.” The proposed legislation strengthens a series of very questionable laws already on the books. The first few sections of the existing law make it illegal to make threats…
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New Theme for Bacon’s Rebellion Header
Inspired by recent events and growing cynicism, I have installed a new slew of header images for the blog. Can you guess the theme? Here’s a clue: Great Dismal _____. — JAB
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National Mental Breakdown
Breakdown GIF from Breakdown GIFs The United States is having a mental breakdown. Two mass shootings in a single day is a sure sign that the polarization and viciousness of our politics is a reflection of a broader social sickness. Social cohesion is disintegrating. Mistrust is spreading. Rancorous rhetoric is displacing reasoned discourse. People are…
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Expanded Roster at Bacon’s Rebellion
Bacon’s Rebellion is pleased to add two contributors to its line-up, one a familiar face… and one a familiar face but from a totally different context. Long-time readers will recognize Peter Galuszka, a free-lance writer and researcher based in Chesterfield County. Peter, a frequent contributor to the blog at one time, has rejoined us after…
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Give a Warm Bacon’s Rebellion Welcome to Dick Hall-Sizemore
I am pleased to announce that Richard W. “Dick” Hall-Sizemore has joined the stable of semi-regular contributors to Bacon’s Rebellion. Dick has haunted the halls of Capitol Square for some 40 years, first as a legislative aide, then as a local government lobbyist, and in the past 25 years as a policy analyst with the…
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Passing the Digital Tin Cup
Dear Bacon’s Rebellion readers, This is the beginning of a new year, the time when many online publications hit up their readers for donations (see the “subscribe” button in the upper left-hand corner). While we will gladly accept your contributions, which we apply to an upgraded hosting package and other services that improve our blogging productivity and…
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Bacon’s Rebellion 2018 — Year of the Pothead
Other blogs publish a list of their most heavily trafficked posts of the previous year, so I guess Bacon’s Rebellion will succumb to peer pressure and do the same. If there’s any conclusion to be drawn from the 2018 list of the Bacon’s Rebellion Top Twelve stories, it’s that our readers — or perhaps random web…
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I’m Baaaack!
Announced in the Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial page this morning: Earlier this month [James A.] Bacon briefly joined the Editorial staff of The Times-Dispatch, hired by Bob Rayner, who is editor of the Editorial Pages. When Rayner announced earlier this week that he is retiring from the newspaper business, Bacon decided to leave the paper as…
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Big Changes for Bacon’s Rebellion
I am pleased to announce that I have joined the Editorial Department of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Working on a part-time basis, I will contribute signed op-ed pieces and unsigned editorials to the newspaper. I will focus, as I have for Bacon’s Rebellion, mainly on state and local public-policy issues. I will continue publishing Bacon’s Rebellion…
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VPAP Baffled by Media’s Blurry Lines
The Virginia Public Access Project continues to struggle to define what constitutes news reporting worth of inclusion in its popular VaNews news digest — a daily e-letter with thousands of readers who actively follow state and local news. In the most recent iteration of VPAP policy, Bacon’s Rebellion ended up the big loser. In a…