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Anti-Depressions
2009-09-18 02:41:00 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="342" caption="photo courtesy of cLaudue, used under this Creative Commons license"][/caption] Several more recent writers have described how their desire to write disappeared as their depressions lifted, but blame the antidepressant--not the loss of their depression--for their decreased creativity. ... The biochemistry of this side effect, if it ... More About: Anti
Wheat v. Chaff
2009-09-15 02:39:00 Bank screwed you over? Sick of golden parachutes and multimillion dollar bonuses and BMW SUVs cutting you off? Avoid checking account/debit card overdraft fees: This year alone, banks are expected to bring in $27 billion by covering overdrafts on checking accounts, typically on debit card purchases or checks that exceed a ... More About: Wheat
Did TX Execute an Innocent Man?
2009-09-15 02:39:00 Looks like a Yes to me. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="by paPisc, Creative Commons/Flickr"][/caption] More About: Innocent
Fidelity
2009-09-13 02:38:00 Full disclosure: I am married but not necessarily a monogamy True Believer. I don't think that men-can't-control-themselves or that monogamy is counter to human "nature." I don't think monogamy is impossible, though it can be hard like any other long-term absolute or commitment. I think people talk monogamy and present ... More About: Fidelity
The Embarrasment Continues
2009-09-13 02:38:00 First, Gov. Bobby Jindal robot-walks his way through a response to Pres. Obama. Then Rep. Charles Boustany gives a lame response to Pres. Obama. And Vitter has sent out a fundraising letter that lies like the motherfucker he is. [From TPM, 6 pages. HT: Doing a Vitter---you got to have ...
Tonight on the Shit Box
2009-09-13 02:38:00 "Idiot box" offers too much intellectual heft, as if idiots got themselves together inside a box or box-like structure. I've been so down on TV lately, and print and nonprint news, especially of the MSM type that never, ever, ever stops, that TiVo is my bestest girlfriend. And tonight, we girls ... More About: Shit , Tonight
Memorial Hospital, Take Two
2009-09-13 02:38:00 Orleans DA: Inquiry into Memorial deaths is not an investigation: nola.com There seems to be tension about it already. Why? Visitors who had come to the hospital for safety felt so desperate that they cheered when two airboats driven by volunteers from the Louisiana swamplands roared up to the flooded emergency-room ramp. ... More About: Hospital
When You Live in a Cracker State?
2009-09-06 02:36:00 ...Sales tax holiday for guns, ammunition starts today ...Obama's upcoming speech to schoolchildren has some parents worried More About: Live , State , Cracker
Another Chance to Tell Rep. Cao About Health Care
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Join Congressman Anh "Joseph" Cao and WBOK for a public health forum. With Special Guests: Nancy Cassagne, West Jefferson Medical Center Mary Joseph, The Children's Defense Fund Judge Calvin Johnson, Director of the Metropolitan Human Services District Congressman Cao will take YOUR opinions to President Obama and Congress in Washington, D.C. Moderated by WBOK's Gerod Stevens Thursday September ... More About: Health , Health Care , Chance , Care , Another Chance
G Bitch Ducks Then Talks to NO Cops
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Both Mister and I had unsettled sleep last night, me as usual, him as usual, I said, after a neighborhood shooting. Mister and I were in the back yard, chatting at the grill, The Girl inside with a cat or 2, when we heard gunfire, close, more than 1 gun, ... More About: Cops , Bitch
Uh-Oh, The Bloggers Are Coming Were Here for Years
2009-09-04 02:35:00 The Times-Pic again discovers the local blogosphere and has the joy of printing the real name of Ashe Dambala. [Along with a picture.] As if the most dangerous thing going on politically in NOLA is Dambala's question about Ellis and the conflict of interest his wife's clients may pose. Conflict ... More About: Bloggers , Years
Four Years and Two Days Later
2009-09-04 02:35:00 Saturday was the first slightly normal August 29 I've had since 2005. I cleaned the kitchen. I went to a meeting. I went to a birthday party. I read no news or comments. I didn't post that We Are Still Not OK. Unlike many others, especially those in the blogpocheh ... More About: Days , Years
Women?s Equality Day
2009-08-27 08:30:00 No, it's not a joke or oxymoron. Though it does sound like a pipe 10-foot-water-bong dream... In no society are women treated equally yet. I believe strongly that if women are not full participants in society, the society does not advance the way that it could. And if women are denied ... More About: Women , Equality
Save Charity Second Line: August 31
2009-08-27 08:30:00 from Save Charity Hospital.com: The second line will start at Charity Hospital, 1532 Tulane Street, at 6:00p.m. sharp. The Rebirth Brass Band and the Hot 8 Brass Band will lead the second line for about one hour around the footprint of the proposed LSU medical center in Lower Mid-City, marching up Tulane Avenue, ... More About: Line , August
Vitter and Cao Heartfelt Invitations
2009-08-26 20:30:00 To me from Vitty-Cent, whose office I once hung up on cold and still feel no regret or shame: Dear Friend, Please join me at a Doctors Town Hall Meeting this Friday, August 28th. WeŽll be joined by two Senators who are also doctors ? U.S. Senators Tom Coburn and John Barrasso - ... More About: Vitter , Invitations
Sex + Toy + Green = Recycling!
2009-08-25 02:27:00 Got some aging sex toys you hate to throw away? Tired of that 11-inch electric-purple double dildo but it's not the kind of thing Goodwill will take? Been wishing for a Cash for Clunkers program for your Miracle Ball-Grip Massager? Want a $10 gift certificate for each butt plug, vibrator, ... More About: Recycling , Green
The Risen Tide
2009-08-24 14:26:00 Highlights of The Tide for me: Getting $2.50 from liprap. The culture panel---I've resolved in fall and winter to cook red beans every Monday. And to veganize the foods I remember and make sure The Girl eats them regularly. And if I can find a freaks-and-geeks social aid and pleasure club, well... And ...
Rising Tide 4: Aug 22
2009-08-23 14:25:00 The 4th disasterversary of The Floods approaches us. Schedule below. More details at Rising Tide 4 9 - 9:30AM arrival and breakfast 9:30 - 10:30 AM culture panel 10:30 -10:40 AM break 10:40 - 10:55 AM Net2NO presentation 10:55 - 11 AM break 11:00 AM - 12 PM Harry Shearer! 12 PM - 1 PM Lunch 1 - 1:50 PM ...
Rep. Barney Frank Talks Back
2009-08-21 14:24:00 Hold on---Larry King isn't on long. At the end, he finishes her off. Note the crowd muttering, complaining and grumbling when she asserts that health care reform is a "Nazi" policy and questions why Rep. Frank keeps supporting this idea of "Obama's," as if that name indicates the depths of evil. ... More About: Back , Barney
Less Than Failure
2009-08-21 14:24:00 A grade I could've used: the FD: Located in British Columbia, Simon Fraser University has just upped the ante, or lowered the bar, or whatever metaphor you have handy when it comes to establishing a new milestone for failure. Not satisfied with handing out ?F?s? to their worst-performing students, the school ... More About: Failure
Obama?s and Duncan?s ?Education? ?Policy?
2009-08-21 14:24:00 In education, Obama sucks. [Do not delight and send me any altered pictures to show your true feelings. This is about policy, not about Obama being black or Duncan being white. Though I do think it is weird that R. Kelly is listed as a friend of Duncan's on Wikipedia. ... More About: Education , Policy
Did We Really Not Know? Headlines
2009-08-21 14:24:00 1. Seth MacFarlane: Baby Stewie From 'Family Guy' Is Gay [Huffington Post] 2. On being Mayor Pitt: 'I don't have a chance.' [NY Daily News] 3. Octomom: "I Screwed Myself." [Huff Po---along with scary trailers from the coming reality show] 4. Email Reveals Rove's Key Role in '06 Dismissals [NY Times] Others I missed? UPDATES: 5. ... More About: Headlines
Push Befriends Shove
2009-08-21 14:24:00 Peggy Wilson supports Paul Pastorek's being "difficult"---as if Pastorek didn't have enough problems. More About: Push
The Contrary Truth of the Season
2009-08-09 12:56:00 If it weren't for obesity and general laziness, the US would have football hooligans like Britain has soccer hooligans. More About: Truth , Season , Contrary
Consider
2009-08-09 12:56:00 from the trailer for Becoming Barack: Evolution of a Leader [from Huff Po]: [unidentified male speaker at 2:27] I think Barack loved community organizing, respects community organizing but also saw its limitations. It does not eliminate racism, it doesn't eliminate poverty. There isn't enough money, there isn't enough power that community ...
11 out of 16
2009-08-06 00:53:00 William Jefferson verdict: Guilty on 11 of 16 counts Jefferson, 62, who represented the New Orleans-based 2nd Congressional District for nine terms, will now face sentencing by Judge T.S. Ellis III, who earlier meted out stiff sentences for lesser figures in the case. According to the U.S. attorney's office, Jefferson faced ...
The Experiment Continues: Teacher Edition 2009-2010
2009-08-04 12:51:00 The story doesn't appear on the front of nola.com but is on the front of today's paper: RSD to lay off dozens of teachers today. With intense competition the new norm, even at some of the city's historically hard-to-staff schools, the Recovery School District, which opens most of its schools this ... More About: Experiment , Teacher , Edition
urck
2009-08-03 12:50:00 I just read Paul Pastorek ruffles feathers as state schools superintendent with the intent of doing a little textual analysis and commentary. But when I finished the last sentence "Maybe they don't like it to be said out loud," a tidal wave of nausea hit me. Excuse me---I need to ...
A Title I Want to Steal
2009-07-31 00:48:00 Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around by Mid-City-ite Cheryl Wagner is featured on TPM Cafe in its book club. Check out TPM Cafe and buy her book and read her book. Why? Visiting the Suck by Paul Tough [great name]: I loved Cheryl's book. It's strange and sad and depressing and hilarious, ... More About: Steal , Title , Title I
If It?s Hot as a Fundamentalist Christian?s Hell?
More articles from this author:2009-07-31 00:48:00 ...it must be time for Satchmo Summerfest. [As much as I love Louis Armstrong, I think he'd tell us we were crazy to be outside the first weekend in August for anybody's sake.] Map/Music/Seminars/Menus What do you think of this year's poster? More About: Christian , Hell , Fundamentalist 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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