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Trying to keep the bigmouth gene under control

Posted in Characters, Nola Nuts on July 9th, 2008 No Comments »

Alison’s off in DC attending the Presidential Classroom, her chosen topic being Global Heath & Environment. In one week she’ll have met many more official honchos than I have in my life.
And she’ll handle it just fine- that’s not my concern. She was even elected Executive Director of her class, and will [...]

Political palpitations

Posted in Characters, Nola Nuts on June 13th, 2008 No Comments »

So there have been two stories I can’t stop thinking about in the last 24 hours, and both make my chair involuntarily slide further left.

Fox news headline: ‘Outraged liberals: Stop picking on Obama’s baby mama’

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Haven’t we heard this song before?

Posted in Nola Nuts on March 12th, 2008 No Comments »

Detroit is taking a page from Nagin’s songbook.
 In Mayor Kilpatrick’s state of the city address:
DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lashed out at his opponents and the news media at the end of his 70-minute State of the City Address on Tuesday. He accused them of creating a “lynch mob mentality” in the scandal over [...]