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The sound you here is millions of jaws dropping to the floor.
Posted on September 05, 2008The Hill reports:Georgia Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland used the racially-tinged term ?uppity? to describe Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama Thursday. Westmoreland was discussing vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin?s speech with reporters outside the House chamber and was asked to compare...
Lemonade
Posted on September 05, 2008I?m happy to report that sometime this afternoon, the Ward household finally got some electricity from Entergy. What a relief! Nevertheless, a lengthy power failure isn?t all bad. For one thing, it prompted us to recover a New Orleans tradition:...
All is well here.
Posted on September 02, 2008This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C90D03.8E347E34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable New Orleans weathered the storm well. We have no electricity, but water = and gas utilities are okay...
The saints
Posted on August 31, 2008?The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, scolded God, were egotistical or testy of impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven.??Phyllis McGinley...
Please read this.
Posted on August 31, 2008Athenae has written a beautiful essay and posted it on First Draft. Please read it.
Primary sources of hurricane information
Posted on August 31, 2008Here are some Web sites that New Orleans bloggers rely on for trustworthy information about hurricanes: The National Hurricane Center. This is where the TV weathercasters get their information. If you like your information unfiltered by TV announcers, then bookmark...
A third-year checkup
Posted on August 30, 2008I am blessed?or have the disadvantage of?living on what?s been called ?the sliver by the river,? or ?the isle of denial,? the part of town that didn?t flood in 2005. Where I live, it looks like New Orleans has recovered...
The Guard has arrived
Posted on August 30, 2008Just now I saw a sight I hadn?t seen since late 2005 and early 2006: a small military convoy of Humvees (the real ones, not the wuss ones with A/C) full of troops dressed in fatigues and army boots, driving...
Gustav
Posted on August 30, 2008As everyone knows, we?re expecting Hurricane Gustav to hit the Louisiana gulf coast sometime Monday. People have always been a bit anxious around here when a hurricane is threatening. But this time it?s been a little different. I?ve notice a...
Shelter from the Storm
Posted on August 30, 2008This one is for the hundreds of thousands of people who, three years ago, opened their homes for people they barely knew. It?s also for those who, right now, are doing the same thing. This is Bob Dylan singing Shelter...
August 29, 2005
Posted on August 29, 2008If you like this video, then you?ll like this record too. (For the search engines: this is Irma Thomas.)
Friedman?s fearless football forecast
Posted on August 28, 2008In late August, Orleanians keep an eye out for hurricanes and their tidal surges. We also keep an eye out for Reuben Friedman?s annual in-depth predictions about the Tulane Green Wave?s football fortunes. Reuben knows a lot about college football,...
NPR?s Top 100
Posted on August 25, 2008What are the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century, in any genre? Here is NPR?s list, including audio downloads of NPR?s story on each one. Some entries I agree with: ?Ain?t That a Shame,? by Fats...
A parable
Posted on August 23, 2008From The Heart of the Enlightened, by Anthony de Mello:A woman complained to a visiting friend that her neighbor was a poor housekeeper. ?You should see how dirty her children are?and her house. It is almost a disgrace to be...
Junion Walker, ?What Does It Take?
Posted on August 23, 2008I remember the late summer of 1969, right after the first Apollo moon landing, when I first started becoming aware of popular music?the stuff they used to play on WTIX, the Mighty 690 on you AM dial. One of the...
Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity
Posted on August 20, 2008Law Professor Peter Friedman has started a new blog that?s worth a look: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity. The title alone is enough reason to check it out.
Random thought on the presidential race
Posted on August 18, 2008Senator Obama?s lack of foreign-policy experience is a legitimate subject for debate. But no one who voted for George Bush in 2000 is allowed to raise it.
Thomas Merton on Christian humility
Posted on August 17, 2008From The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton, via Thomas Merton: Essential Writings: One of the great tragedies of the Christian West is the fact that for all the good will of the missionaries and colonizers (they certainly meant well, and...
Dave Sherman
Posted on August 16, 2008What will it take to fix everything that?s broken in New Orleans, or in the rest of the world? Dave Sherman has the simple answer:
Post-Katrina Progress Report
Posted on August 11, 2008The Kaiser Family Foundation has released the results of its second post-Katrina survey, this one focused on Orleans Parish. The bottom line: We are not okay. (Hat tip to beSpacific.)
Pink Floyd, ?Money?
Posted on August 09, 2008Most music in the 1970s sucked. But not all. Among the un-sucky music was Pink Floyd?s classic album, Dark Side of the Moon, owned by everyone who fancied himself a ?serious? music fan. The biggest hit from that album was...
Just another absurdity
Posted on August 08, 2008Improbable Research appropriately refers to this as the Rube Goldberg approach to tanning. From the Sun Lounge Studio tanning salon: First, and most importantly, we are a SOLAR POWERED tanning studio. Sun Lounge Tanning Studio is the first of its...
I have just two things to say about Dr. John?s latest album, ?City That Care Forgot?
Posted on August 07, 2008Get it. Then listen until you get it. Got it?
Live for today
Posted on August 06, 2008Here?s a sure-fire recipe for misery; see if it sounds familiar. You endure an existence that makes you miserable, thinking that at some date off in the future (e.g. retirement), you will commence real living. James Dolan calls this Preparing...
Dr. John and Johnny Winter: ?Love, Life & Money?
Posted on August 02, 2008Here?s something special: Dr. John and Johnny Winter sharing a stage and playing Love, Life & Money. One of the commenters on YouTube says it?s from a video called Bits & Pieces. Watch carefully between 5:07 and 5:10 to see...
Family photo
Posted on August 01, 2008This picture is labeled ?Family Picture Fail.? I must disagree. I think it?s a smashing success.
Get up; stand up.
Posted on July 30, 2008?We are going to render an account to God, not only for our idle words, but also for our ill-considered silence.? ?John Trithemius. (Source: God?s Politics.)
Bail me out
Posted on July 29, 2008Some wise guy swore out a warrant for my arrest. As a result, I?m to be arrested on August 7 and taken to a temporary lockup at Galatoire?s. Getting out of jail won?t be free: it?ll cost $2,000. In the...
The silence of the woods
Posted on July 27, 2008?There are so many words that one cannot get to God as long as He is thought to be on the other side of the words.... That is where the silence of the woods comes in. Not that there is...
Stevie covers Stevie: ?Superstition?
Posted on July 26, 2008Here is Stevie Ray Vaughan?s cover of Stevie Wonder?s hit ?Superstition.?
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