October 2007

Day 789: Kindly Recycle This Saturday

October 25, 2007

Day 789: Things Heating Up?

October 25, 2007

A reliable source tells me that a) Oliver Thomas wore a wire for his last few months in office and has good dirt on a number of folks higher up in the food chain and b) the DoJ is investigating our esteemed mayor for the purchase and sale of local property while using insider knowledge he wasn’t supposed [...]

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Day 789: Looked Over Jordan And What Did I See

October 25, 2007

The City Stupidity Meter is now permanently stuck at 11. New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan Harbored Fugitive And Let Said Suspect Leave The 20-year-old man stopped by Jordan’s house minutes after he allegedly fled after an armed robbery outside a nearby Shell gas station. He arrived at Jordan’s house on foot, having run away after [...]

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October 24, 2007

Question: White people often dress up in black or brown face, tastelessly and/or sarcastically so, to imitate blacks and Indians. How does someone non-white similarly mimic a white person to achieve the same effect? And can they make the same impression? Edit: This is not a Halloween-costume-related but a socio-cultural thought query. Tweet

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Day 787: “It Won’t Ever Look Like Home”

October 23, 2007

This afternoon, I was on a Xavier University panel on blogging, courtesy of Editor B. More about that short yet sweet session soon. One of the repeat questions is “What do you blog about and why?” A very striking answer to that question is in today’s post by Ray: Cora Foster’s house fourteen months on Back [...]

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Day 786: Governor Jindal – Awesome For The Browns?

October 22, 2007

It’s raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock, as they say in Montana, and our streets are flooded after less than 24 hours of downpour. There’s also a saying in Tamil that if it’s raining something unusual must have occurred. Well, someone of Indian descent was elected the youngest governor of an American [...]

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Day 784: The New Adventures Of Bobby And Mitch

October 20, 2007

What do you know? It’s bipartisan time in Louisiana as Bobby Jindal (R) becomes the first Indian-American to enter a governor’s mansion and Mitch Landrieu (D) retains his position as first lieutenant. Go Mitch, go Mitch, go Mitch! The results are in. Closer to home, 86% of precincts have reported in the City Council At [...]

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Day 783: A Unified Front

October 19, 2007

When discussing the bomb blasts that rocked Karachi during Benazir Bhutto’s return from exile, a friend wrote me what has to be the most depressing thing I’ve read in the last 2+ years: “Katrina was a natural disaster — albeit one likely forced by climate change — and the bombing in Pakistan was a human act. The two [...]

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Day 782: Screw Thy Neighbor

October 18, 2007

On some days, I want to leave New Orleans and the South and, on others, I want to flee the United States altogether. What would you want to do when the president vetoes a health insurance program for children touted by a majority of Americans, our elected representatives do not overturn his decision and instead spend inordinate amounts of time obsessing [...]

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Day 781: Another Brick In The Crumbling Wall

October 18, 2007

NYTimes: A Post-Katrina Charter School in New Orleans Gets a Second Chance By April, the foundation ended Mosaica’s five-year contract. Last month, the arbitrator’s binding decision found that Mosaica had “materially breached the management agreement” and awarded Choice $350,000. Michael J. Connelly, a lawyer who is Mosaica’s chief executive, rejected blame for the complaints, arguing [...]

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