Back on the Boat, again Around ten o’clock we packed ourselves up and headed down to the marina in Cabo San Lucas. If San José is peaceful, calm and relaxing, Cabo San Lucas is its evil twin. The place is a haven to tax-dodging rock-n-rollers…
I take trash to the street
like shift change
Two young skinny kids stood behind the table facing the judge. They were close in age, but little else. One was tall, skinny and dressed in a light blue J.C. Penny suit. The other was in orange coveralls. One was short and black with close-cropped…
I like to change how I say things because I’m older now.
“This sends a powerful, powerful message, and that is that public officials, especially law enforcement officers will be held accountable for their acts. The citizens of this country should not have to fear the people called upon to protect them.”
~US Attorney Jim Letten, 8.5.11 addressing the verdicts in the Danziger Bridge trial
Dear Reader: See the world by atomic train! (and by “world” I mean world in the sense of the World Series, the World Wide Wrestling associating, or any of a number of world championships and organizations which in actuality mean only the United States,…
crossposted at The G Bitch Spot State education department asks board to yank Abramson’s charter–nola.com/Times-Pic In a written recommendation to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, or BESE, acting state Superintendent Ollie Tyler said an investigation launched last month has uncovered evidence that…
“I don’t want to bother you much with what happened to me personally,” he began, showing in his remark the weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what the audience would best like to hear…” Where did that come from?…
It was the last day of jury duty for this particular cattle call. No one wanted to be chosen – especially for the murder case requiring a voir dire that day. Maybe an additional month! Maybe sequestered in an Airline Highway motel! Oh, god, how bad could this semiannual nightmare get?
My mom asked me what I like about taking violin lessons.
A student documentary about the history of New Orleans jazz.
41 signs your school district might be infected by a privatization virus (2 are joke-y so really 39 but still)