I have to backtrack on something I wrote in an earlier post about the term “thug”. Evidently, racists are using the term to refer to black people, and while I still think it’s more likely than not that Mayor Bloomberg was using the word the way I do (in the “classic” sense), I’m far less […]
Sometimes, things are just not what they seem (nor what one may want them to be). From the LA Times (subscription required):
When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and New Orleans levee officials joined forces in July 1985 to protect the city from a long-feared hurricane, the two agencies could not agree on how to […]
Ah! Woe is me!
I think I’ve not only been discovered, I’m being humored!
By a 9-year-old!
I saw an email earlier that she wrote to a friend, in which she said,
can’t wait until tommorow when I get to sneak downstairs and see what “santa” brought me.
“Santa”?
I hope she plays along, so I can […]
My favorite personal holiday is New Year’s, but as a parent, Christmas is the holiday. It has been one of my greatest joys - listening to my daughter’s high-pitched young chatter about the reindeer, reading her letters to Santa Claus, hearing her slightly off-key Christmas Carols … it’s unbelievably endearing and innocent. Every […]
This is a test. There’s only one right answer.
Grades will be posted publicly.
Study guides here:
.pdf of FEMA trailer sites
Nagin approves list of 98 trailer sites
Update: Results from the pre-test do not look good.
You know something? Even if they (the powers that be) decide tomorrow that they’re not going to allow a single soul to rebuild in NOLA’s 9th Ward, the very least they could do is get some debris clearing, removal, and clean-up going in there.
Four months later - 2 days before Christmas - they should NOT […]
There are a number of very vocal folks (including me) who support the total rebuilding of New Orleans. It strikes me as incredibly discriminatory to tell one group of people they can rebuild, while discouraging another.
I am speaking with emotions rooted in my love for the city. It has never been clear to me, though, […]
Of course, of course! I should have known the mayor of New York was only mad about the transit strike because he’s a racist! Thankfully, this open letter helped me understand.
I’d have figured it out sooner, except that somewhere, somehow, I clearly missed some important linguistic expansion. No doubt everybody but me knows that “thug” […]
Just to pull things into perspective about evacuations and the recent information about Katrina’s strength:
How many people do you think would have heeded the calls to leave the city, if they’d known the storm was going to hit Buras as a Cat 3, and come across NOLA with Cat 1 (or low 2) winds? I […]
Funny how quickly people try to obfuscate what happened today in the Senate. From the Bayou Buzz:
What today’s Senate vote proved by a small margin is that the distaste for ANWR drilling and the dislike for the method in the way that Senator Stevens allegedly attached the controversial legislation to the Defense Appropriations was greater […]
The National Public Radio (NPR) has a story about violence in the days immediately following Katrina. Specifically, they are talking about sexual assaults.
Rape.
Unfortunately, I’m not surprised to hear what they say. You should listen to it. At the end, you’ll hear why, perhaps, the Neville’s aren’t coming back.
(You can read the story here.)
Alaska’s Senator Stevens is a sneaky piece of work, eh? Thanks to his underhanded maneuvering, the Gulf Coast is faced (yet again) with tainted “help�.
This guy continues to tick me off. Remember the hissy fit he threw over the “Bridge to Nowhere? (They should’ve let him quit.)
Unlike the Bayou Buzz, I’m not willing to passively […]