New Orleans is a city of retired transients. A home for those with a someplace else, but no desire to return. We are tired socialites who abandoned the minty repose of Georgia afternoons. We are carpenters with gnarled knuckles who now spend our days building plaster replicas of the furnishings from a kingdom that lost […]
I just won two beers off bets with my French coworkers about whether Earth or Mars is closer to the sun. I gave them fair warning that we had that drilled into us in elementary school in the US, but they were CERTAIN I was wrong. Probably the only “geography†bet I’ll ever win. It […]
“…the sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character.” – Zach Wahls This speech was given during the public forum on House Joint Resolution 6 in the Iowa House of Representatives. FWIW, the resolution passed the House, but it is unlikely to even make it to the floor […]
On this, the 9th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center and the assassination of 2,977 civilians, I pause to reflect on what got us to that point and why we have only moved backward from that day. Suffering is a human condition; it is not the domain of any one country or […]
I LOVE World Cup! I’m watching my third match so far…first was Mexico (w) v. Iran, second was Angola v. Portugal (w), and now is USA v. Czech Republic. Four years ago, six months into our relationship, N. and I watched the WC on an outrageous big screen TV at a friend’s house, with the […]