Polimom is so glad New Orleans held Mardi Gras this year. If ever a town and its population deserved a break from unrelenting bad news, it’s NOLA – and get a break they did.
Is it smaller? Of course. Were there mixed feelings toward having it? Certainly. Is it wild, crazy, decadent, flamboyant? You bet! And […]
Happy Mardi Gras!!!!!!
(Wish I was there…. )
It looks as if America’s religious right is gonna try to cash in their political chips, starting with South Dakota. Clearly it’s a test of Roe v. Wade, and the new composition of the Supreme Court:
PIERRE, South Dakota (AP) — State lawmakers voted Friday to ban nearly all abortions in South Dakota and sent the […]
Houston is confusing Polimom half to death lately.
Between the Chronicle’s myopic editorial and Eric Berger’s provocative article yesterday (and reactions to them), one would think that Houston had unlimited choices when they finally started evacuating people from New Orleans last September.
But nearly half of the hospital district’s budget comes directly from local taxpayers, a fact […]
Six months of unrelenting images and stories of New Orleans evacuees as black, poor, and helpless has created the oddest impression of the city. One would think that the black community has achieved nothing positive – that everyone lived in the Ninth Ward, that all the people in NOLA who were not white were poor, […]
In spite of ample reading and debate, Polimom hasn’t been able to find a position to take on the UAE / DP ports issue - primarily because I can see all sides of the issue (and there are many).
Starling Hunter at America’s Business is Business has posted a nice summary of the blogosphere’s reasons for […]
Have you ever dreamed an event, and then had it happen? Do you believe people do?
I never remember my dreams, and so I have absolutely no idea whether this happens to me. However, I often know that the phone is about to ring (before it does), and who will be calling. Is that a […]
Polimom’s shocked - just shocked to discover the White House thinks the Katrina response was inadequate:
Townsend’s review cites failures at a half-dozen federal agencies, and singles out Homeland Security in particular for lacking fast communication with emergency responders and the public, and an inadequate system for stockpiling supplies before a disaster hits.
Nope. Nothing new there. […]
There’s been great fuss and bother in the Houston blogosphere / media about HPD’s proposed installation of surveillance cameras to help “fight crime” in the city. Is it the beginning of the Orwellian End to freedom and privacy, or is it simply another tool commonly used elsewhere?
Polimom’s been trying to sort out what has been […]