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,…
On the Second Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
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…
Written Shortly After The Storm
Written shortly after returning home from Katrina evacuation … So many people forget that the Friday before Aug. 29, 2005 Katrina’s forecast led her to Apalachicola, Fl. Then suddenly, they drew her path a few hundred miles west, right at us. I finished refinishing the floors to our dining room and living room and we…
Liens Geante! Katrina Anniversaire!
This is why I have ventured further left from my cup of coffee with moderacy a while back. Candidates Call Anew for Rebuilding of New Orleans NY Times By Douglas Brinkley’ If we want New Orleans to die, we should say so Washington Post On the state of the art The day the music died?…
Author’s Night at the Hubbell
Fresh of his appearance at Rising Tide, Joshua Clark will be in Algiers on Tuesday… From the Hubbell… This Tuesday evening, August 28th, is a very special Author Night at the Hubbell Library in Algiers Point. To mark the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we are having Joshua Clark and his memoir, Heart Like Water:…