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“Honest Debate”

July 27, 2011

Juan Williams was on the Bob Edwards show yesterday promoting his new book. He stated again that people in Muslim garb in airports do frighten him (without any caveat this time) and that his saying this is part of Honest Debate. If you’re truly interested in such debate, the first rule is to question the [...]

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Honor Is Not A Parade

November 11, 2010

Called my father-in-law, the loving old coot of a Korean war veteran, today and thanked him for his service. He always gets a kick out of that. Growing up, November 11th was Armistice Day. Say that here and folks will look at you like you’re sprouting a second head. Like a certain person I will [...]

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What The iPad Might Have Done For Me

January 28, 2010

Needless to say, you’ve all heard about Apple’s iPad by now.  I’m certain Steve Jobs’s unveiling speech yesterday was more popular than Obama’s State of the Union address, judging simply from the crazy high TPM (tweets per minute) related to the new gadget’s drop.  (Disclosure: I contributed to said traffic with 9 tweets and around [...]

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Day 872: Curs of the Ravenously Avaricious Pirate Society

January 16, 2008

Kathrine Cargo (of TOKIN) and John Hyman (of my very own subkrewe, C.R.A.P.S.) were on George Ingmire‘s show on WWOZ this morning talking about the Krewe du Vieux parade that rolls this weekend.  This weekend!  Wasn’t it just Christmas and Twelfth Night? The mother krewe theme is Krewe Du Vieux’s Magical Misery Tour and a number [...]

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Day 702: For The Love Of Science

August 1, 2007

Reading a popular LiveScience article called Global Warming: How Do Scientists Know They’re Not Wrong?, with hope filling my heart, this paragraph stopped me in my tracks. Contrary to popular parlance, science can never truly “prove” a theory. Science simply arrives at the best explanation of how the world works. Global warming can no more [...]

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Day 692: Yet Another “Women In The Workplace” Assessment

July 22, 2007

So, what makes us different and better than our male counterparts (this time)? It’s still multitasking and, wait, what is this … emotionalism. [NYTimes article] What intrinsic qualities do women have that give them a competitive edge over men? By an overwhelming margin, the trait they touted most was their multitasking expertise … They even [...]

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Day 664: Some Reassurance

June 24, 2007

This post is a bit of navel-gazing that has nothing to do with New Orleans, politics, geoscience, copyright issues or travel. Ever since VatulBlog went from being a simple stump in my portion of electronic acreage to an über-public space, I’ve thought about starting another blog, a more personal one under an anonymous name that [...]

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Day 396: Love This Life, Though You’ll Never Know Why

September 28, 2006

Ever since Katrina, the death of D’s mother a few months after that, and now with my grandmother’s passing, I’ve pondered the utter lemon that is life followed by death. What do I mean? You’re born, you do so much, make somewhat of a difference in your life, touch the lives of others, become a [...]

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August 10, 2006

August 10, 2006 – Is it horrible that I don’t feel this sad when humans are killed? Tweet

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July 11, 2006

July 11, 2006 – Today is one of those days I wish I weren’t in New Orleans.  One thousand miles north of here, my mother goes into major surgery late this morning and will not emerge until early in the evening.  It bites that I am her only daughter and only child who will not be [...]

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