Whither Podcasting?

I've got plenty of pro audio gear lying around at the house in Wading River that doesn't seem to get used very often, so I'm thinking about bringing a 12-channel palmtop mixer, some microphones and some studio monitors into the office so that I can mess with putting some podcasts together after work hours. I have an idea for a radio show on online marketing that I'm working on. There's a neat device available at Radio Shack that attaches to a phone and lets you pull calls into a mixing board input, so I'm going to give that a go so that I can dial out to people in the marketing business that might want to participate. Stay tuned.

Next Target: Obama?

Seems like a lot of right wing blogs are getting the idea that Barack Obama oughtta be slammed for his comments concerning Abraham Lincoln in this AP story. I was taught in elementary school that Lincoln was motivated by a need for Union victory in the Civil War, not by moral convictions. I was also taught that the Emancipation Proclamation didn't free ALL the slaves, just the ones in the states actively rebelling against the Union. What were you taught?