Just like New Orleanians need to repeat that it was LEVEES, not Katrina, that devastated New Orleans, we need to keep repeating that the public school system was shattered, not “rebuilt”… 
We are still not OK, six years later.
I like snakes. I like worms. I like to look at all the creatures my cat Penny kills.
Congratulations to B2L2 contributor G Bitch for winning the 2011 Ashley Award at the Rising Tide Conference in New Orleans yesterday.
I said goodbye to the varmints, hugged the folks and tried not to think about all the crap I’d probably forgotten to pack.
Bob Johnson followed me down to the end of the driveway. I rolled down the window of the truck.
“You be good, Bob,” I said. “I’m gone to Texas.”
I didn’t bother trying to explain to Bob Johnson I’d be back in a week or so. How Bob Johnson apprehends time, no one knows. But surely Texas was a concept he could grasp.
Luckily for me, Texas is a large state and hard to miss. I knew if I pointed the truck west and pressed the accelerator, I shouldn’t have too many problems.
We were on our way out of Cabos. After a week of fast-food abstinence, the airport is the first outpost of food-court civilization. The airport in is full of the normal, strip mall fare: Cinnabun, Burger King, Filet-O-Chicken, and Pizza Hut: calories, carbs, fat and…
By Alton Reece During the minor scandal that attended the publication of my biography/memoir, I Was Howard Hughes, I went underground for a few months. I won’t make it sound like I went on a grand spiritual quest, the way the people who book Oprah…
I can’t figure out time. When did a cave man live? Way before grandma and grandpa?
Amendment 6 – Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses. Ratified 12/15/1791. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which…
For those of you who read my last experimental post, and apparently many of you did despite its length if SiteMeter is right (I rarely check it but did for this one), I applaud your patience and curiousity. I had posted a rather long, albeit…
“Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ~ Hans Christian Anderson “Your life passes before your eyes.” That thought occurred to him when, soon after he took the above picture in Munich and then boarded a luxury ICE…