September 2008

Day 1110: Sex, Drugs & Rock Oil – MMS Shenanigans

September 10, 2008

Sounds like a party, paid for with your natural resources. NYTimes | Wide-Ranging Ethics Scandal Emerges at Interior Dept As Congress prepares to debate expansion of drilling in taxpayer-owned coastal waters, the Interior Department agency that collects oil and gas royalties has been caught up in a wide-ranging ethics scandal — including allegations of financial self-dealing, accepting [...]

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Day 1110: Earth Not Ripped Apart By Black Hole, Film At 11 [Updated]

September 10, 2008

Damn, remind me to fire my bookie. See, nothing happened to us after the Large Hadron Collider experiment.  Now look at these pretty pictures and then read NolaDishu’s important post (someone also tell him he can come out of hiding now).  I have read and second Adam Savage’s insightful analysis of and solutions for the state of modern [...]

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Day 1109: Survey Says: Quit Your Job

September 9, 2008

Or chill out. Every once in a while, LiveScience publishes these part psychological, part cultural-anthropological studies that I find highly amusing and then ignore.  This one has to be shared. LiveScience: Boss’ Gender Can Affect Workers’ Stress Researchers at the University of Toronto used data from a 2005 national telephone survey of working adults in [...]

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Day 1109: Democrats, Don’t Back Down From Yourselves

September 9, 2008

Mark Folse wrote this partly in response to my previous post on the dismal conditions down in Louisiana’s coastal parishes after Hurricane Gustav.  He understands that America desperately needs a culture of acknowledgement and community, not apathy and isolation.  We are our brother’s keepers. … People in the nation to the north frequently whine and complain [...]

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Day 1107: Lafourche & Terrebonne Parishes After Gustav

September 7, 2008

We’re tired from Hurricane Gustav.  So tired that we ask, beg, bargain with Hurricane Ike to give us a whole damned minute before possibly pushing us out of our city again for his turn at the Big Easy.  We have the luxury, however, of looking forward to and preparing for Ike, while some badly hit [...]

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Day 1105: Please Donate To The United Houma Nation!

September 5, 2008

Donation information for the United Houma Nation.  After sustaining massive wind and flood damage, they need supplies as well as monetary donations.  Brenda Dardar Robichaux is the Principal Chief of the Houma Nation and a friend of Karen Gadbois. She is also a Jazzfest regular. Please, big media, take your eyes off us and put [...]

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Day 1105: Eyeing The Forecast

September 5, 2008

What else can one do now but go on with life?  If we stay, we stay and deal with it.  If we leave again (which I will have to this month for business and fun), we deal with it when we get back.  Wonder how many hurricanes Hindu and Buddhist philosophers went through before they [...]

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Day 1104: Driving Around Town After Gustav

September 4, 2008

D and I drove out to St. Charles Parish this afternoon to run some errands.  I-10W was pretty clear traffic- and weather-wise until the tail of Gustav unleashed some localized rain on us.  On our way back home, we took River Road back all the way to the Carrollton neighborhood and then through Uptown back [...]

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Day 1103: We’re Home!

September 3, 2008

It took D seven hours to drive from Birmingham, AL to New Orleans, LA.  We took I-20W to Mississippi Highway 35 south to Louisiana 21 to the Causeway to the southshore.  The beautiful country highways of this nation rock, folks, forget the interstate!  And we’re home, we’re home, we’re home, YIPPEE SKIPPEE!  In all honesty, [...]

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Day 1103: Heading Back To New Orleans

September 3, 2008

NOTE: This is my last blog post from on the road until I can find a solid internet connection in New Orleans.  Please follow me on Twitter. === After a good night’s rest, we are packing up to drive back to New Orleans. Gambit Weekly’s online presence, The Blog Of New Orleans, is doing a [...]

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