Not Our Problem, Dude...

In New Orleans, we are used to referring to our illustrious police force by that snarky little acronym. But I never realized, until last night, that the slogan would refer to not only us civilians that NOPD swore to "Serve and Protect", but to their own as well.
Apparently, NOPD has cut Special Detail from most of the 8th ( Read more... )

BBC accused of neglecting Christianity as it devotes air time to pagan festival
Because everybody knows, Christians don't get nearly enough press coverage any other time of year. Oh, and the quote,  "...yet another example of marginalising Christianity and giving undue airtime to other beliefs..." Yes, how dare we expect that Christians share the ( Read more... )

So sometime early this morning I had this dream. There was a huge flood. Not in New Orleans, don't worry ;} It was in some city like Dallas or DC, someplace with lots of governmental-looking buildings but not much nature. I was there with a team of people, ostensibly doing animal rescue. I kept running into trouble with people (mostly groups of ( Read more... )

So appropriate it should be storming today ( Read more... )

Friday night, the square was just a tad bit more uh, tolerable, relatively speaking. Least it didn't look like a Quentin Tarantino movie, like it did Thursday.
Thursday was when the same two people got into three knock-down fights, throwing each other into set-ups and other people, getting all the bench people all riled up and screaming, and ( Read more... )

Thee article:
Judge Dismisses Part Of Suit Over Post-hurricane Bridge Blockade

NEW ORLEANS - Jefferson Parish authorities did not violate the constitutional right to travel of people who were not allowed to cross the Mississippi River Bridge as they tried to escape New Orleans in the days following Hurricane Katrina, a federal judge ruled in a ( Read more... )