As we move into Turkey Day mode, some quick thoughts:
1) OJ. A classic example of media synergy gone awry. Maybe OJ can post it on a My Space page (also owned by News Corp.)
2) Beauty and the bees. There’s a good lesson in the profile this morning of Brady Mullinax, apiarist extraordinaire. He lobbied Congress to make the honey bee the national insect. No go. Apparently the monarch butterfly had its own powerful lobby. This utility vs. grandeur argument is as old as the nation (remember the turkey vs. bald eagle debate from your history textbooks)
3) We have a v. interesting story running tomorrow on how the cig-excise tax in NC cut smoking rates and raised revenues. Sounds like a win-win situation, unless of course you make cigarettes for a living. Another example of the changing fabric of this state and this city.
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1. I think OJ and Judith Regan are rather made for each other.
2. I do wish your Piedmont Profiles were less third person and more first person.
3. It is an odd situation, to be sure. But this city, with the hospice named after the tobacco heiress and the women’s health center named after the company that sells unhealthy frozen baked goods marketed directly to women, will handle it, I feel certain. We’re a city that thrives amid contradictions.
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