Library Chronicles

The really insidious thing about the DOGE phenomenon, wherein a team of hooligans under the direction of a hostile plutocrat wreak havoc on ...

The villains are pretty much monologing their evil plans here .  Maybe someone will hear it?  Would that matter?  An internal Social Securi...

It's getting more difficult to hide the truth about this place .   New Orleans and its suburbs have lost population at a faster rate tha...

  We live under a terror regime .  The Ali family had been on ICE’s radar, facing removal, for some time. They had a pending application fo...

 Every day I die a little bit As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pr...

There are a lot of reasons why elected office holders behave the way they do. But one fundamental razor for understanding them I find useful...

A stressful Carnival season, the collapse of the Republic, and a few bits of personal news have gotten us behind schedule in our endeavors t...

  I'm sure it was just like this .  Hammond Police said they pulled over a vehicle on the evening of Feb. 10 near Magazine and Apple S...

 Pass it on .  The Public Service Commission on Wednesday removed commissioner Davante Lewis as its vice chairman after he called Gov. Jeff ...

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 15, 2025 There are four constitutional am...

One thing I think this article does a good job of doing is providing the context for understanding the AI takeover of government. Rather tha...

 Always a scam proposition.  It's been modernized .  In an essay dated April 2022, Yarvin updated RAGE to something he described as a “...

It says something that, in a moment of crisis like this one, when people are trying to figure out if they have to march or if they have to s...

The only thing worse than what Elon is doing to the federal government right now are his pathetic emulators sprinkled across the states... i...

 what's happening now The former executive did point to a meaningful difference between X and DOGE, however: The government is big and ...

 Ghassan Korban is talking about his legacy today .   In May, Korban will leave behind an agency that is still challenged but in better con...

I've got my attention divided in several directions at the moment. Some personal dealings, also the city is getting ready to experience ...

Seems bad The U.S. Department of Justice issued a report Thursday evening finding that Louisiana State Police employs practices that viola...

This isn't really a post in that there are more notes to share about both of these figures which we'll get to later. But we really n...

I've had less time to be annoying online lately. That should change soon. But 2025 has been a monster already. Not only because the worl...

 A few months ago I posted some notes on a couple of semi-recent books , one of which was Ages of American Capitalism by Jonathan Levy.  On...

They're going to have to tell us what this NOLA Public Schools "accouting error" actually is eventually, right?  Last month th...

 The thing I am always saying Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson who is facing ...

Oh no! A Bywater hotel project ran into some minor pushback from the neighborhood. What will we do when all the real estate vampires good e...

NOLA.com: Auditor warned New Orleans RTA that paratransit issues could lead to federal oversight An estimated 1,200 residents in New Orleans...

They say you can't fight City Hall. In New Orleans, that has been especially true. For a long time, the city was notorious for refusing ...

The plot of the 1993 New Orleans shot Jean Claude Van Damme vehicle, Hard Target (1993) is kind of a "Most Dangerous Game" knock o...

That's one way of putting it.   Gov. Jeff Landry’s ambitious plan to overhaul Louisiana’s tax structure has largely been pared down to a...

By now everyone probably knows he got out again.  MacCash certainly knows, anyway.  As usual, though, Doug is not thinking his clever bits a...