July 2008

Day 1061: Slick Missy

July 23, 2008

No snanas or smoking by the riverside for any of you this week. The stink outside is 419,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil in the Mississippi River as a result of a tanker ramming into an American Commercial Lines Inc. oil barge near the Crescent City Connection at 1:30AM today. From the T-P: … State [...]

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Day 1061: Links For 2008-07-23

July 23, 2008

* Favre Allegedly Used Packer Cellphone To Call Vikings Nothing but forthcoming and cooperative with us, huh, Brett? You’re still under contract with the Packers and it is dimwit moves like this that make a whopping 200 people desire your return and relegate you to a simple link and not a whole post on this [...]

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Day 1060: WWL TV Investigates NOAH

July 22, 2008

Back at the beginning of July, this blog lamented numerous inconsistencies and the lack of transparency in the City-sponsored New Orleans Affordable Housing program, as investigated by Karen Gadbois of Squandered Heritage. Last night, Lee Zurik of WWL TV presented the results of his own investigation into the matter. Interviewees include Karen and Recovery Czar, [...]

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Day 1057: Campaigning xkcd Style!

July 19, 2008

Sean Tevis is running for State Representative in 6000-year-old Kansas. This is his campaign story and manifesto, a la xkcd. Nerds rule! Passionate nerds running for office rule kick all available ass! If you live in District 15 in Kansas, please vote for Sean. From Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum [...]

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July 18, 2008

Temporarily trying out a banner which reflects what I see a lot of in New Orleans these days – graffiti over Radtke GreyTM and dragonflies. Many dragonflies. Tweet

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Day 1056: My Membership Dollars At Work

July 18, 2008

Racy liveblogs from Netroots Nation. Check out the sign that graced the coffee bar this morning. Tweet

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Day 1056: New Orleans Represented At NetRoots 08

July 18, 2008

Tomorrow, at 3PM Central Time, the New Orleans Resurgence panel will stream live from the NetRoots Nation 2008 conference in Austin, TX. Along with esteemed others, our very own Karen Gadbois is on the panel and will talk about the city’s housing challenge and the birth and growth of Squandered Heritage. Tweet

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Day 1055: A Superhero For New Orleans

July 17, 2008

From Batman, City Of Crime Batman is my kind of superhero – dark, reclusive and inherently good. Forget Superman and Spiderman, who are goody, britches-wearing Archie Bunkers when compared to The Dark Knight. Last night, I watched Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight on the History Channel. What I thought was going to be a [...]

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Day 1054: Charlie Rose Interview With RMI’s Amory Lovins

July 16, 2008

Charlie Rose talks with co-founder and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Amory Lovins, about renewable energy and energy policy. I don’t completely buy Lovins’s arguments against nuclear energy (topic for a separate post after more thought), but urge you to pay attention to Rose’s on-point questions and Lovins’s eloquent and far-sighted answers. We [...]

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Day 1053: My Cousin, The NYTimes Science Columnist

July 15, 2008

This blog is only one expression of my family’s long-held desire to write. Having “perfected the art of bullshit,” as my brother puts it, we long to inflict it on others. I kid, I kid. Serious writing in my immediate family includes that of my mother’s, with her amassing tomes on Vedanta and Hinduism, and [...]

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