I was talking to Howie and he shared this passage with me: Education is now prized not because the culture values truth and wisdom, or…
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I was talking to Howie and he shared this passage with me: Education is now prized not because the culture values truth and wisdom, or…
I’m quoted in an AP article about Ed Blakeley: Mid-City resident Bart Everson said that after Blakely started work in January, he saw him as…
“The media… is where democracies conduct their civil wars.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, 2004
For the last century, almost all top political appointments [on the planet Earth] had been made by random computer selection from the pool of individuals…
“I want to make sure that when you’re firing your bullets because you’re dissatisfied you fire them at the right folks.” — The Honorable C.…
Back in September of 2005, I wondered if Katrina would become an campaign issue in 2008. Now pollster John Zogby says it just might: 73…
I was just getting ready to post about how sick I am of living amidst piles of garbage, when I came across the latest from…
I’m quoted in an article by Roy Bragg for the San Antonio Express News.
I’m famous at last, quoted in an article on the Village Voice website by Anya Kamenetz, a former New Orleanian. “I’ve lost all sense of…
I’m not the praying type, but all the same I thought I’d pass on this prayer, written by Sr. Loretta McCarthy, SBS. Spirit of the…
So you are tired of your life, young man! All the more reason have you to live. Anyone can die. A murderer has moral force…
An architect/planner from Baltimore gave me the following advice at the AIA dinner I attended last nite: “Don’t let a bunch of architects and planners…
I recently got an update to our homeowner’s policy. It’s something like a hundred pages long. Past updates were only a few pages. I’m supposed…
And in a wild and sudden dance We mocked at Time and Fate and Chance — William Butler Yeats, The Wanderings of Oisin
When I moved to New Orleans back in 1999 I didn’t really know what to expect. Certainly I didn’t anticipate that at age 32 I’d…
I was wondering how long it would be before someone proposed this: The time has come to blockade the Mississippi. It might sound crazy, but…
I thought this was a joke at first, but apparently it’s for real. New Orleans is seeking foreign aid. The mayor says: France can take…
I watched Bush’s State of the Union address last night. It was the first time I’ve watched this political spectacle in years, I think. I…
I’m pained by what I read on a couple local blogs this morning. Jim Louis writes: I have been more or less geographically rejected by…
An oddly-titled article, “Katrina sweeps us pride” by Tushar Charan, has been published in the Asian Tribune. The “pride,” I gather, is in regard to…