There was a time when I wasn’t privy to the smell of a rotten refrigerator or moldy upholstery. I smelled my fair share of thm in the months after Katrina but it wasn’t the first time. While around these parts many consider Hurricane Ivan ‘the one that missed us,’ I unfortunately can’t make that claim….
Month: September 2007
Something About Deck Chairs on the Titanic? Something About a Troop Surge?
I’ve got a bad feeling about Riley’s latest response to New Orleans’ crime problem. In case you haven’t heard, he plans to add another 20 hours of work to an average NOPD patrol officer’s work week in the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th districts. The plan would cost the city 5.7 million and only last…
Liens du Moment: 9/12
Whoa! Hey! San Fran’s putting up some Nawlins’ numbers! Bay Area Rocked By Night Of Deadly Violence Bayinsider.com ‘God bless CC and its vanilla suburbs’ New Orleans Keeps Narrow Black Majority AP Blanchard’s requiem for New Orleans Mending the Levees Village Voice
This Just In…
A crippled pornographer has sponsored a polygraph test administered by a lie detector to the stars and in that test a prostitute has said that even though she has lied all her life, this time she is telling the truth and the test proves it. The test is in reference to a sexual relationship the…
A Good Sign
I am actually taking it as a good sign that far right leaning ahem, wingnuts, are the among the only people taking a stand against New Orleans recovery these days, theirs being the perishing and irrelevant philosophy that it is. Anti-recovery pundits living in the tiny margins must be a sign that the sentiment to…
Madness~!
When I first moved here, I searched for years to find a job either writing or in design. That was where my skills were and that was my career. What I went through in that search is a post for another day. But I recently got the hankering to venture back to my old career…
Cassy Fiano: Bitter Ignorant
I hate to be mean spirited after such a relaxing weekend on the beautiful Gulf Coast but, after Ashley beckoned me to make some new additions to my Enemies of the State list, and after reading a few of the links in this post, I feel compelled. The additions he requested will be up shortly,…