Jeff Frederick is the Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia

Jim Gilmore is the Republican nominee for Senate.

Tomorrow I will be liveblogging the RPV State Convention for Virginia Virtucon.  Unfortunately internet access is a bit sparse in the convention center so it may not be the most current thing in the world, but I am working on using Twitter and Twitterfone to try and make things interesting.  Everything will be set by tomorrow morning when it’ll go live.

Also I will be trying to liveblog/livetweet the Jeffersoniad Suite tonight.  So if anything awesome happens, keep your eyes on J’s Notes and my Twitter account for all the news.

RetroRichmond.com - A new blog from a simply awesome woman who loves retro things!  This site is going to be awesome, I can just feel it!

The Jeffersoniad Blog Coalition will be hosting a hospitality suite at the Republican Convention May 30th - 9PM - 1 AM in room B19 at the Richmond Convention Center. All of this is made possible by a generous sponsorship by Rhumb Line and Speaker Bill Howell.

If you’re at the convention, please stop by for some dessert and coffee and some conversing with Virginia’s finest bloggers and me.

What Gen X was bashed for, Gen Y is praised for, and X isn’t going to take it anymore:

One need look no further than the local newsstand to see the favoritism the Millennials have received. Whereas Generation X was routinely denigrated by the press, the Millennials have been compared to World War II’s Greatest Generation. In Robert Strauss and Neil Howe’s Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation, the authors state authoritatively that “over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alienated to upbeat and engaged.”

Sure, Generation X survived AIDS, Reagan, the Cold War, Tipper Gore, and A Flock of Seagulls, but those adversities, suggest Strauss and Howe, pale in comparison to what Millennials face today. Consider the stress of having to juggle a 30-hour work week while simultaneously maintaining Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr accounts. It’s enough to make your head spin! And maybe the Millennials never faced Hitler’s forces on the beaches of Normandy, but had they been around in 1944 (and had the technology existed), you can bet they would have blogged about it.

Hilarious article with great one-liners such as:

The only thing preventing us from flushing America’s future down the toilet was our lack of initiative. We were too slack to flush.

But also with some good points.

Having been born in 1979 I’m on the edge: a late to the party Gen Xer who grew up playing with some of Gen Y’s toys. But it’s hard not to see the similarities between the two generations and the differences in how they’re perceived. By and large, Generation Y gets it pretty easy and is getting an awful lot of praise and for what? Doing what Generation X did but with Twitter?

Does anyone know a good resource for finding rent-to-own homes in Richmond?  Particularly in the Northside.  I’ve been checking Craigslist but that’s kinda hit or miss.

According to Shad Plank, Mayor Doug Wilder won’t seek reelection this November.

Update: RTD has a bit, too.

According to the Guardian, 46% of web users think bloggers should sign on with a code that reflects laws on defamation and intellectual property, while only 32% of bloggers supported it.  More interestingly, only 4% of users opposed while 36% of bloggers thought the idea was bad, bad, bad.

Tim Kaine’s transportation plan is out and it’s not pretty no matter how you look at it.  He proposes imposing an increase in the sales tax in NOVA and Hampton Roads (the same type of increased that was killed by referendum by NOVA voters in 2002), a bump in the tax on car titling and a statewide increase in the grantor’s tax charged when one sells their home.  You know, because the housing market is a great place to be looking for money these days.

DJ does a good job dissecting the proposal, as does Brian Kirwin, Va Patriot and LG Bill Bolling.

VCU is going to have its monthly siren test today.  Not sure if the media turnout will be similar to the last few times, but there’s currently a helicopter circling the campus.  Though that might be more tied to the excitement at University of Richmond yesterday than anything else.