Day 990: On The Brain Of Late
Posted on May 14, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, government, science & technology | Leave a Comment
* In another display of his infinite wisdom, our president recently stated that food prices are going up because … wait for it … India’s growing middle class is getting richer and eating too much. First our jobs, now our food? How dare those incorrigible browns! In response, Indians folded up their collective lungi and […]
Read More..>>Day 988: They Take Away Yet They Give …
Posted on May 12, 2008 - Filed Under government, movies/tv | 3 Comments
NOT FUNNY: I’ve got your “education and training” right here, John McCain, you awful, misogynistic douchebag. Now make employers pay me what they pay a guy for doing the same work! And thanks for setting women’s rights back about half a century in the minds of your supporters. Ugh.
FUNNY (Thanks, Slate!):
This […]
Day 986: Cyclone Nargis Flood Maps
Posted on May 10, 2008 - Filed Under aid, global, mapping, weather | Leave a Comment
IFRC: Aid moving out but more needed
[As of May 9th,] over 220,000 people have received some form of aid from government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), other organizations and the general public. Over 80,000 of them have been served by Myanmar Red Cross … “Food, hygiene kits, water purification tablets, mosquito nets, sanitary supplies and most importantly […]
Day 985: Barack Obollywood
Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under desi / india, funny, government, music | 4 Comments
This one’s for Alli:
Read More..>>Posted on May 9, 2008 - Filed Under blurbs, global, government, travel | Leave a Comment
In my last post, I mentioned the possibility of travelling to Myanmar later this year to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis rebuild. Thanks to the latest actions of the military “leadership” there, Americans may not be let in until then.
Read More..>>Day 984: The Victims Of Cyclone Nargis
Posted on May 8, 2008 - Filed Under global, government | 8 Comments
Last week, D and I watched a Discovery Channel program which traced the Ganges all the way from its Himalayan headwaters to the Brahmaputra delta of southern Bangladesh. While talking about the Sundarbans, the fertile estuarine environment where the river meets the sea, much like Southern Louisiana and the Mississippi delta, the narrator mentioned a […]
Read More..>>Day 983: Yes, But Is Our Children Learning?*
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under education, new orleans | 1 Comment
NYTimes: Changes at New Orleans Schools Bring Gains in Test Scores
… Nonetheless, more than half the students who took the test in those grades did not pass, and 60 percent of high school students got an unsatisfactory ranking in standardized English and math tests, a figure three to four times higher than the percentage throughout […]
Day 983: The New Orleans Bingo! Show
Posted on May 7, 2008 - Filed Under music, new orleans, pictures | 3 Comments
Never a dull moment during this mix of makeup, theatre, beats, friends and bliss. D saw them two times in the last ten days, once at One Eyed Jack’s and then at Jazzfest with me, lucky dog.
Read More..>>Day 982: Renard Poché’s 4U/4ME
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under family & friends, music, new orleans | 1 Comment
D and I turn into hermits after Mardi Gras and Jazzfest, so we did not make it out to Renard Poché’s debut as a solo artist at the Maple Leaf last night. I love telling people that, aside from being the boyfriend of the beautiful LisaPal, Renard played with the Meters and Professor Longhair […]
Read More..>>Day 982: Laura Bush Should Know All About “Inept” Responses
Posted on May 6, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, global, government | Leave a Comment
On our way to and from Jazzfest, many of us have the opportunity to walk through formerly-flood-ravaged portions of MidCity. Do you notice in the spraypainted Xs that many houses were not visited by boat until September 11th, 2005, almost two weeks after much of New Orleans was submerged? How would you rate the disaster response of […]
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