Tag Archives: 'new orleans'

• Levee Protection

  Me, not drunk, a month after returning from my trip to New Orleans which included a study and tour of the Katrina levees (emphasis added)… Brad Pitt is an idiot. [...] I just don’t think he realizes what it is he is exactly doing. (Pitt is re-building homes in the Lower Ninth Ward, directly beneath [...]

• Debunking the Obama Election

  This post is not going to make readers happy (well, most of them anyway), and it is not supposed to. It is time for some real honest truths in response to the truly historic election that we have witnessed. Well, most of us. I was flat-out drunk-and-stupid that evening. Obama won — in record fashion, [...]

• Afterthoughts on New Orleans

  It’s been awhile — almost a month — since I returned from New Orleans, but some closing thoughts on the Crescent City is more than appropriate… – As long-time readers know, I prefer to drink local brews when I travel, and in New Orleans, that meant drinking Abita, since there really wasn’t any competition. Good [...]

• Blogging Live from New Orleans

  At first I thought New Orleans, or New New Orleans, whatever, was a lot like Saint Louis, but I was greatly mistaken. I foolishly made my way to the waterfront, and just like Saint Louis, there really is none, except for a walkway (which was nice, although nothing special), but what more could you ask [...]