Day 610: “Empty By The Time It Hit The Rocks”
Posted on April 30, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, education, government, new orleans, recovery | 2 Comments
From Celsus’s most recent post:
We have let New Orleans go. This is what leaving a city to die looks like. It’s just that the nation has chosen the most painful, anguishing, sadistic way to do it. A death by a thousand cuts method, certain to bankrupt and destroy the lives of as many hardworking Americans as […]
Day 610: Survived Jazzfest Weekend 1
Posted on April 30, 2007 - Filed Under music, new orleans, pictures | Leave a Comment
Friday:
- T-Bone Burnett
- Lucinda Williams (mostly to see if she was pasted and forgot most of her lyrics; she was fine this time, played a lot of for-Louisiana music and ended the main set with Joy as predicted)
- crawfish
- Fahy’s
Saturday:
- Calexico (yay!)
- Norah Jones (meh - I napped until Trombone Shorty was invited onstage for […]
Day 608: Hart Article In Global Politician
Posted on April 28, 2007 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history, media, project gutenberg, public domain | Leave a Comment
Michael has a great article in the Global Politician entitled Web2.0 - Erudition, Not Hoarding: Response to Sam Vaknin. With computing and electronic media, as with any medium including book, newspaper, television, radio, its value depends on the user. For the person who really doesn’t want to learn, the argument over medium is immaterial.
… Sam Vaknin […]
Day 607: Banning Discrimination
Posted on April 27, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government | 5 Comments
So many laws, so little enforcement.
US House of Representatives Votes 420-3 To Ban Genetic Discrimination
In the 1960s, the United States created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, to “bring suit on behalf of alleged victims of discrimination against private employers” and enacted the Fair Housing Act, which “prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and […]
Day 607: “Moral Poverty” In Black New Orleanians
Posted on April 27, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, government, katrina, new orleans | Leave a Comment
So, yeah, I should send this article to Athenae because it’s most popular in the Free Republic forums (and we all know about A’s obsession with the Freepi), but I’ll put it up here anyway.
Moral Poverty Cost Blacks In New Orleans (HT, Joel)
… When 75 percent of New Orleans residents had left the city, it was primarily immoral, […]
Day 606: Epidemic Or Short-Lived Virus?
Posted on April 26, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, education, global, government | 3 Comments
Creation Museum (HT, txyankee)
When the Gallup Poll asked people about their views on the subject in March, 47 percent of Americans polled said that God created humans pretty much in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. That belief was strongest among those with less education, regular churchgoers, people 65 and older, and […]
Day 606: Link Grab Bag
Posted on April 26, 2007 - Filed Under books, culture-society-history, environment, football, movies/tv, music, new orleans, wisconsin | Leave a Comment
* 2007 Report Of the American Library Association: “Predicted demise due to Internet fails to materialize.”
Umm, ALA, the success of libraries would require people to read. Hart’s analysis: “Yes, people are coming to the libraries, but not for reading materials, they are coming for movies more than anything else, and other electronic items, including free Internet access […]
Day 605: American Idle
Posted on April 25, 2007 - Filed Under movies/tv, music, new orleans, recovery | 4 Comments
Flipping channels on TV a few minutes ago, I accidentally caught a little bit of Idol Gives Back in which Randy Jackson returned to Louisiana and made me cry by interviewing poor mothers and children in the Lower Ninth Ward. This is horribly ironic given that it was my first time watching the infernal […]
Read More..>>Day 605: WordPress Wrangling
Posted on April 25, 2007 - Filed Under computing & internet, wordpress | Leave a Comment
The wp-post function in Wordpress 2.1.2 frustrates, educates and motivates the user, mostly in the desire to pull out hair and sulk. In my third attempt to publish the last post, I narrowed down the problem to the ping function in Options –> Writing –> Update Services and not my server. The short answer: Problem […]
Read More..>>Day 605: A Gross Lack Of Understanding
Posted on April 25, 2007 - Filed Under culture-society-history, desi / india, family & friends, global, new orleans | 5 Comments
At Alexis’s invitation, I attended the opening reception of Newcomb Art Gallery’s Drawn from New Orleans: Twentieth-Century Works from Private Collections. While all of us ooh-aahed at the quantity and quality of beautiful drawings and paintings to come out of this town over the centuries, I also marvelled at the organization and placement of the works […]
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