June 2007

Day 663: Dambala Interviewed By CitizenReporter.org

June 23, 2007

Bicyclemark of CitizenReporter.org, whom I missed talking with when he was here last, interviews The American Zombie on the topic of New Orleans, “one of the most under-reported issues in global media today,” in bm208: Blogging New Orleans Till The Very End. The entire dialogue is very compelling, but this is a portion so important [...]

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Day 663: On Lessig’s Makeover

June 23, 2007

Stanford University law professor, Lawrence Lessig, officially departs from the intellectual property debate. His new area of study is corruption. I can’t honestly say it’s a big loss. Whomever wrote CopyCense: On Lessig ought to be the new “torchbearer.” They get it. Lessig has proclaimed before that he was retiring from focusing on intellectual property, [...]

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Day 662: The Vatican, Now Known As The Pope Hall Of Fame

June 22, 2007

“I am a gold coin … the unfortunate world revolves around, not God, but me, and there’s nothing I can’t buy … as my actual value drops, however, my metaphorical value increases – proof that poetry is consolation to life’s miseries. But despite all such heartless comparison and thoughtless slander, I’ve realized that a large [...]

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Day 661: Just Like A Pirate Movie

June 21, 2007

Thanks, Greg a.k.a. Mr. NC-17. P.S. You get the post title, right? Tweet

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Day 661: Thursday Grab Bag

June 21, 2007

grab bag n. A container filled with articles, such as party gifts, to be drawn unseen. Was I supposed to write about Rome, Florence and Venice before my immediate impressions wane? Let me mention these important New Orleans news items first and then pen things less dire. * My thoughts are with friends, Mominem, Dambala, [...]

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Day 660: Of Houston, Embryos And The Road Home

June 20, 2007

As soon as I returned from the much-needed Italian vacation, my work feet hit the ground running. Today was spent entirely on a business trip to Houston – my head is filled with so much geophysics and related questions, I’m surprised anything else can issue from it. On the bumper-to-bumper-traffic-ridden drive back to Bush Intercontinental [...]

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Day 659: Sinking Cities Tour: Dénouement

June 19, 2007

I’m back from Italy. Did you miss me? The post title refers to New Orleans -> (Rome, Florence and) Venice -> Amsterdam -> New Orleans, in a span of ten days. Water, subsidence, human intervention, canals, varying levels of competence and civic pride, culture, the cost of living where nature didn’t intend for us to – you know, the [...]

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Day 647: VatulBlog Goes On Vacation

June 7, 2007

Just as Michael and Kalypso Homan leave for six weeks in Israel, D and I board a plane today for La Bella Italia. After almost three years sans a real vacation, the ten days in Rome, Florence and Venice is a much-needed break and treat. Europe must be in the air this year what with [...]

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Day 645: New Orleans Private School Voucher Bill Killed

June 5, 2007

Whatever the political hue of the legislators involved, this is just wrong. Orleans Parish needs better representation in state government and must fight for decisionmaking by people who care about education. Does the state think “the problem of New Orleans” will disappear by worsening our schools system? And, how can we blame our kids for turning to [...]

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Day 645: American Society of Civil Engineers Report on New Orleans Hurricane Protection Systems

June 5, 2007

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released the results of an eighteen-month-long study on what went wrong with the New Orleans hurricane protection system in the days following Hurricane Katrina and why. According to Science Daily, “the 84-page report, The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: What Went Wrong and Why, targets the public and [...]

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