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6000-Year-Old Texas

January 22, 2013

Alas, the horrible creationist Louisiana Science & Education Act (SB70) wasn’t repealed, but the Orleans Parish School Board doesn’t want anything to do with it. On December 18, 2012, the board voted unanimously  to prohibit the use of any textbooks that include revisionist history (as in Texas) or creationism, including intelligent design (ID). They also [...]

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Katrina +7, The More Things Change Edition

August 29, 2012
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August 29th, 2005 – In Houston, awaiting the Mayor Nagin “all clear” to return. Hoping for very little wind damage to home and the rig; reports of levees and pumps failing all over the city. August 29th, 2012 – In Houston, awaiting the Mayor Landrieu “all clear” to head in for the long weekend. Hoping [...]

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We Deserve The Newspaper We Get

June 13, 2012

Feel my blinding anger at Brett Anderson being let go from The Times-Picayune when braying donkeys continue to pass for food writers and collect paychecks elsewhere. Because New Orleans isn’t a fraking mecca of food or anything. *** Three articles to consider. Put them together and draw your own conclusions. 1) The Gambit: After the [...]

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Acadian 1

May 30, 2012

“A mountain-building event that affected an area from present-day New York to Newfoundland during the Devonian Period (416 to 359.2 million years ago).” – Encyclopedia Britannica *** “The son of Hermes and a nymph, Pan was half goat, half man who lived in the forests of Arcadia [in Peloponnese) surrounded by satyrs and maenads." - [...]

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A (Call And) Response To “White Savior Industrial Complex”

March 21, 2012

While appraising items made in, say, Sri Lanka, the Dominican Republic or China for purchase, I wonder who made it, under what conditions, how they live everyday and, almost concurrently, how this purse will look against a pair of slacks in my closet back at home or that hard drive will satisfy my space requirements, [...]

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Halloween 2011: Coastline Retreat Is Scary, Kids!

October 29, 2011

It started with me walking across the family room in a nude bathing suit and D looking up from his laptop with a “What the …” “I’ll be right back,” I said, putting on flip flops before walking into the frigid-by-Texas-drought-standards garage. “There’s some makeup in the car that I need.” And D got that [...]

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Québec City Was Founded On A High Cape Of Utica Shale

July 18, 2011

Québec City sits between the Laurentian highlands of the southeastern Grenville Province of the Canadian Shield and the Appalachian Mountains that were formed during the Taconic and Acadian orogenies. Bedrock here is the Upper Ordovician Utica shale that “overlies the predominantly shallow marine carbonate facies of the Cambrian-Ordovician St. Lawrence Platform” (or St. Lawrence lowlands).The [...]

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The Morganza Spillway Is Now Open

May 14, 2011

Morganza Floodway Travel Times, a photo by Team New Orleans, US Army Corps of Engineers on Flickr. The Pointe Coupee Banner | Corps directed to open Morganza Spillway The Morganza Spillway has been opened to protect Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the Mississippi River potentially overflowing its carefully-carved banks in these cities. According to [...]

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