On the way back from the wonderful Converge South journalism/blogger conference in the very bloggy City of Greensboro, I decided to stop of at JR’s in Alamance County just to make sure they were OK after that devastating 25-cent hike in the tobacco tax. Rest assured, thing are humming along. The shelves are lined with plenty of cheap knick-knacks from electric blue dolphin lava lamps to the classic ceramic “freckle faced country boy” figurine. Dorals are on special for $18.79 a carton and you can still get any NASCAR jacket you ever wanted.