MORE BLACK FAMILIES, reportedly, are home-schooling. Kind of ties in with this post by Shavar Jeffries from last week.

IS IT THE DEATH OF TRADITIONAL BOOK PUBLISHING? Some interesting thoughts.

What’s also interesting is that this blog post is by Michael Hyatt, who’s president of my publisher Nelson Current’s parent company, Thomas Nelson (which also published Hugh Hewitt’s book, Blog) and I didn’t know he had a blog until an InstaPundit reader sent me a link.

I think that paper book technology is still hard to beat — much as I love Charles Stross, I didn’t much enjoy reading his Accelerando on the computer and liked it much better when I reread it in paper form — but that’s book-delivery technology. The overall apparatus of book-publishing, and distribution, on the other hand, is in for some big changes. Actual books will be around for at least ten years, I’d guess, and maybe longer.

MICHAEL SILENCE: “Memo to Target: You have a bunch of check-out counters. Open them up!”

POTATO GUNS: A full report, plus some thoughts on why kids are fat, from the Insta-Wife.

IS MCCAIN winning over conservatives?

MORE SYDNEY BEACH RIOTS: It’s like Paris Down Under.

MICHAEL TOTTEN: “I hate to say this a mere week before my wife will join me in Beirut, but the car bombs have started again. This time Gebran Tueni was murdered in a town called Mekalis above Beirut. Of course he was anti-Syrian. And of course he was a journalist.”

TECHCENTRALSTATION is now TCS Daily, to reflect its focus on Technology, Commerce, and Society. There’s a new look, too.

MAYE CASE UPDATE: Radley Balko has done a lot more reporting on this case of a no-knock raid tragically bungled. If you missed the earlier posts, read this one first.