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Summer Doldrums

I have the summer doldrums. I don’t think I ever want to skip teaching in the summer again if possible. I have too much unstructured time. I don’t do well with unstructured time. I have spent my summer thus far focused on eating and going to the… Read more

“They are so poor and they are so black”

You simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals, as Jack Cafferty just pointed out, so tragically, so many of these people, almost all of them that we see, are so poor and they are so black, and this is going to raise lots of… Read more

Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?

A poignant quote from Anne Rice in the NY Times:But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our… Read more

More on Katrina

From the Diane Sawyer interview: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached. And as a result, much of New Orleans is flooded. And now we are having to deal with it… Read more

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