{"id":1969,"date":"2006-08-27T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2006-08-27T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/the-line\/"},"modified":"2006-08-27T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-27T18:21:46","slug":"the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had noticed Steve Lawrence is out at The Line, KNME’s Friday night New Mexican round-table discussion, but I hadn’t seen the show since before our two week camping trip<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gene Grant has taken over duties as host and that is an improvement over Lawrence (who must be having a bad year with the end of Crosswinds and losing his show).<\/p>\n

There have been other changes that may be Gene’s influence. The overly simple inter-segment title cards have been replaced by a flat panel monitor behind Gene — a little more TV-ish, alá NOW. In the final minutes, there is a timer on screen to indicate there is only a minute of discussion of some topics. While I think that’s a bad idea in many respects, it does reassure the attention-deficit that we’ll be moving on real soon (and gives them something to watch in the meantime). At the least, it shows concern for keeping things moving. And there’s a teaser to get people to go to the online forum.<\/p>\n

I still have mixed feelings about Margaret Montoya. I appreciate her perspective, I just can’t stand all those uh’s — UNM has several ToastMasters groups, Professor Montoya.<\/p>\n

In spite of myself, I may warm to Whitney Cheshire<\/a>, a very New Mexican conservative, which is to say non-fire-breathing (though, one must recall Dimdahl is a native New Mexican). She conveys a sense of “this is what Republicans think, but I know you don’t care, so that’s OK.” More mellow, less bellow than we’ve come to expect of the Right.<\/p>\n

And, in a more enlightened age, this would not matter, but it was great to see 3 women, 2 men; 3 minorities, 2 Anglos; and not a middle-aged white guy in the bunch. I hear what middle-aged white guys think every time I open my mouth — I don’t need to hear more of that. (Well, I’m in the minority within the majority, but my cohort has held the stage long enough.) mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had noticed Steve Lawrence is out at The Line, KNME’s Friday night New Mexican round-table discussion, but I hadn’t seen the show since before our two week camping trip. Gene Grant has taken over duties as host and that is an improvement over Lawrence (who must be having a bad year with the end … Continue reading The Line<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}