Serpas takes hard stance against lying in plan for NOPD A question I wanted to ask Chief Serpas on Saturday at Rising Tide was in reference to his “You Lie, You Die” policy toward the department. Just wondering if the end result will be more firings or less lying? I think it depends a lot…
Month: August 2010
More Reading on Mac Mac McClelland’s Keynote Speech at RT5
For anyone who heard Mac McClelland’s Rising Tide 5 Keynote speech on Saturday and was wanting to do anymore reading on what she said, links and audio are below. Also, see this post from the Rising Tide blog. At :28 the story below is referenced… Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil? At…
8/29/2010: The Chaos of a Storm
After witnessing the effects of hurricanes over the years of living on the Gulf Coast, one of the most amazing things about them is the chaos they create, and what comes out of it. You take a group of variables and apply the same stimulus to them, after a period of time, patterns form. You…
Jeffrey Worshipping Mac
Grenade-tatooed suspect and feds settle with black farmers top Louisiana links
So, based on the hed here, I am assuming there are some black farmers on golf courses and they have for one reason or another entered into a dispute with the Federal Government. I am not sure how long the dispute went on but the African American agriculturists finally agreed on some sort of settlement…
What Are Your Rising Tide 5 Panelists Doing Right Now?
Rising Tide 5 Aug. 28 at the Howlin’ Wolf … See below… Keynote speaker Mac Mclleland … “The goal is not to let it blow up”: A tour of BP’s relief rig Treme panelist Eric Overmyer… Treme News: Eric Overmyer Looks Back on Season One Treme panelist Dave Walker … ‘Witness: Katrina’ tells storm’s story…
Treme Season 2 To Be Set in 2007
Perhaps in time for this? Also… Rising Tide 5 Treme panelist Eric Overmyer recently spoke at the Clinton School in Arkansas and offered some glimpses into next season… ‘Treme’ to get more ‘Wire-y’ next season Overmyer revealed that next season of “Treme” will jump a year in the future from where last season left off…
Casket Cartel
God and the State are embroiled in a debate concerning the nature of casket sales… Benedictine monks suing Louisiana regulators over casket sales The monks of the 121-year-old St. Joseph Abbey, in St. Tammany Parish north of New Orleans, charge the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors is attempting to maintain a casket cartel,…
Red Dress Runners: Spartans of Spirits
On Jackson Square I have been witness time and time again to large groups of runners, gay people, pirates, African Americans, running bulls, Lutherans and many more. So I can say with a certain bit of authority that none of them get wasted like the red dress runners. Maybe it’s the swampy heat or maybe…
Rising Tide Conference Program
There may be a few late additions but this is our most complete program for the Aug. 28 new media conference… Keynote Speaker: Mac McClelland – Mother Jones.com Mac is Mother Jones‘ human rights reporter, writer of The Rights Stuff, and the author of For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question: A Story…