Category: Commentary

Bill Cosby and Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Dr. Alvin Poussaint were on Meet The Press Sunday (transcript | video) discussing with honesty and frankness issues facing the black community. Much of what was discussed was particularly interesting to me as a citizen of New Orleans and, as a result of my residency, having a…

‘Slow avalanche’ gobbles road, homes in San Diego For a few years, I used to write and edit La Jolla Light newspaper in La Jolla, California. So of you may know La Jolla for its enchanted coast and some of you may know it because of a recent massive sinkhole that damaged a road and…

Dear America, Forget what you may have heard. We are not Ok. We are stuck in a hell of human folly with the lives and futures of millions in the delicate balance. A dissipating coast, a weak criminal justice system, devious politicians and a decrepit flood protection system form a mass of mental anguish that…

A month or so ago, when William Jefferson was indicted, there seemed to be a general celebration among the people I talked to about it. People were glad that the crooked politician and State-embarrassment had received what he had coming to him. Not so with this Oliver Thomas thing. I actually heard a commentator on…

Last week, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney had the following to say in regards to New Orleans recovery: Romney said he thought that the recovery effort next door in Mississippi was “going well and being effectively managed,” citing Republican Governor Haley Barbour as possibly the reason. But he said he wasn’t sure who to blame…

We knew it would come. The issue of race has entered into the DA debate. Well, actually, it was always there. Since the day Ed stepped into office really. But man, it is really stinking now. It stinks because no debate as to the merit of black leadership can avoid the inevitable comparisons to lynch…

There was a morning, during the winter following the flood, that I was driving my fiance and a co-worker to drop them off at work. Some local incident had just occurred and I can’t remember what it was exactly. Maybe it was “Chocolate City,” maybe it was a murder, I don’t remember. My fiance and…

Making the rounds on other blogs yesterday was a story by the New York Times that examines the cycle of violence and the state of the New Orleans’ criminal justice system, essentially painting it in a none-to-favorable light. There was nothing groundbreaking in the article for us. But the rest of the country, well, it…

I saw this ad on Craigslist this morning and couldn’t help but wonder about the state of the professional class here in New Orleans. The “yuppies” if you will. PHP Web Developer Position Now, PHP is not a highly advanced language of Web programming but, it’s not something one can fake by tinkering around with…

There was indeed something glorious that happened today. Some sort of victory was eked out by 5,000 people who took it upon themselves to do something, anything, to throw a monkey wrench into the machine of entropy that has gripped the city for decades. And I think we did win the battle. But the war,…