January 2009

January 26, 2009

We pass the Morial Convention Center on the way to work everyday. This week, the National Automobile Dealers’ Assocation conference is in town. D made two observations: 1) The Eye In The Sky is perched very visibly at the corner of Julia St. and Convention Center Blvd. and 2) We’ve never seen so many limousines at [...]

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Day 1248: This Has Gotten To Us

January 26, 2009

NOLA.com | New Orleans breeds bold killers: half of murders occur in daytime NOLA.com | As the murder scenes move ever closer to his front door, a father weighs love for the city against responsibility to family I live on a beautiful, oak-lined avenue in Mid-City that my wife and I love. Neighbors are acquainted [...]

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Day 1248: 12 Monkeys? Try 50!

January 26, 2009

Thanks to D for the link and title of this post. LA Times | 50 is magic monkey number at Santa Ana Zoo (emphasis on the monkey quotes): For decades, the family that gave the city the land for its small but popular zoo has kept tabs on the primate population. The deal was 50 monkeys. [...]

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Day 1245: Pro-Life-Before-Birth

January 23, 2009

On a break from cutting costume parts at Ye Olde Krewe du Vieux/C.R.A.P.S. Sweatshoppe last evening, I skimmed the feedreader and came across this exchange between The Washington Independent’s David Weigel and a group of anti-abortion protestors at the recent instance of the annual Roe v. Wade rally on the National Mall. Emphasis is mine. [...]

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links for 2009-01-22

January 22, 2009

Slashdot | Obama Looking At Open Source? "…Scott McNealy, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems [has] revealed he has been asked to prepare a paper on the subject for the new administration" (tags: opensource barackobama computing linux government) The New York Times | Past Graft Is Tainting New India I'm just going to stop saying that [...]

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Day 1243: Secretary Hillary

January 21, 2009

From The Washington Independent: Details to come, but the Senate just confirmed Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next secretary of state by a 94-2 vote. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) put a hold on her nomination yesterday but didn’t vote against her. The dissenters were Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). Too much [...]

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Day 1243: It Just Had To Be Done

January 21, 2009

The Best Of Thunder The Ferret Tweet

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Day 1243: Inaugural Afterglow

January 21, 2009

Folks continue to ask me if President Obama’s mention of Hindus and Science Funding in his inaugural speech didn’t make me swoon in delight. Trust me, when he said those things, I almost jumped out of my chair to yell “Represent!” and do the Badger dance. (I also almost texted Liprap with, “Duuuuude, he said Jews [...]

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Day 1243: New Orleans, Obama And American Complexity

January 21, 2009

A few days ago, Open Source‘s Christopher Lydon spoke with Ned Sublette, musician, historian and author of The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square. The conversation here, on the eve of the great deliverance at noon on Tuesday, dwells on one of the signature scars of the Bush era, the [...]

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Day 1242: Hail To The Chief!

January 20, 2009

If you are interested in a transcript of Barack Obama’s inaugural speech, as it was actually given, you can get a copy at Project Gutenberg. It is Project Gutenberg eBook number 28000. You should also be able to get these files at the PG Preprint Reading Room. As the last two posts here indicate, the [...]

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