The Tide Rose

The Tide Rose in New Orleans last weekend, and I was still inspired by the NOLA Bloggers. The attendance was greater than previous years, the posters and t-shirts more beautiful, the keynote more riveting and the panels and parties, the participants and reparte, more wonderful than ever. Who thought that possible? The hard part about going to Rising [...]

Rising Tide IV

Rising Tide IV is coming Saturday, August 22, 2009. Harry Shearer is the Keynote Speaker and there are panels planned on New Orleans’ Culture, Health Care & Sports. There will be a cocktail meet and greet on Friday (details later) as well as a catered lunch. This is always a great event, characterized by lively interaction with incredibly interesting folks (and great food and plenty drink).

New Year Dispatches 2009

It’s been a wonderful time in New Orleans. Last New Year here was rushed, a raucous celebration bookmarked by frantic driving, home to back home again in less than three days. This year has been more sanely paced and, therefore, relaxing.
I love how things get stuck in our personal vernacular. I can’t link you to [...]

Live from Rising Tide III

From the Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center! John Barry is getting ready to speak as Oyster, our fearless bivalve leader, provides an introduction. I will continue to update this all day, so check back often. 
Barry tells us that he “was in this space a few weeks after the storm,” so it holds extra meaning to him to be speaking [...]

It depends on how you define “safety”

Gary Hart to Wolf Blitzer on CNN, after having been asked if it’s expected that the Republicans will once again try to get away with characterizing the Democratic Party as being “weak” on defense (emphasis mine):
HART: A lot of us supporting Barack Obama have pretty long history of experience in national security matters. And I [...]

Or, just go to your rooms. Now.

In Full Mom Mode:
Dear Senators Clinton and Obama,
Please promise me you know what you’re doing, that both of you really are present enough to be a good president and neither one of you will do anything that might deliver this election to McCain. It’s not so much that I hate John McCain, because I don’t. He’s a patriot [...]

So much for “Don’t be evil”

So much for “Don’t be evil”, supposedly Google’s “motto”. As described in Wikipedia (emphasis mine):
“Don’t be evil” is the informal corporate motto (or slogan) for Google,[1] established by Gmail inventor Paul Buchheit[2]. Paul, who suggested the slogan in a meeting, said he “wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take [...]

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