With Mardi Gras quickly approaching, I thought it might be appropriate to post a piece I wrote last year about an experience I had with a man who come upon hard times and had reluctantly joined the class of poor unfortunates… Read More ›
Hurricane Katrina
Day 27: When The Saints Go Marching In
New Orleans has to go down as a close runner-up to Las Vegas for the title of “City I Would Have Never Wanted To Leave If I Was Still Drinking.” That being said, I’ve very much enjoyed my time in… Read More ›
Day 25: Ain’t Gonna Fool Me Again!
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library is on a public university (UT-Austin), is free with a suggested donation ($10 for an adult, which I gladly gave) and is monitored by friendly elderly people. The George W. Bush Presidential Library is… Read More ›
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›
Hey Sandy, Have You Picked Your Target Yet?
It’s beginning to look like neglecting to mention climate change on the campaign trail is no safeguard against mother nature having a say in how these elections turn out. With only 10 days left before the 2012 presidential election, severe… Read More ›
Climate Change Doesn’t Have To Exist When There’s Central Air
To hear both sides tell it, America would erupt into a pit of molten lava were we to elect the candidate that isn’t them. One man is a Kenyan socialist who wants to take away your guns and shoot you… Read More ›
