Library Chronicles

A month later, they're easier to find here.

Yesterday's T-P: A report by scientists aboard the Arctic Sunrise, including Texas A&M University researcher Ranier Amon, on Sept. 3...

And other shocking facts rarely discussed above basement level. Note : Moseley's posts are always so freaking dense that they're har...

Making it less likely that someone gets locked up for minor offenses is an encouraging step in that direction .

I'm kind of a pessimist about these things so I think e-voting is coming sooner or later regardless of whether it can be demonstrated to...

October is National Corporate Leeching of People's Goodwill Toward Breast Cancer Victims' Month. Please be careful where you direct ...

There are several points of incompetence to pick through according to the early reporting on these Oil Spill Commission reports but the big...

Carinival aristocrats convene to smack the Kerns before they embarrass everybody. Wonder if any of them were worried about what might have ...

In my haste to bang out the Falcons notes Saturday night I linked to Ricky's pants stats graphic but should have linked the accompanying...

Much of your local criminal justice system amounts to a crude, cruel and inefficient collections racket . High court costs and fines imposed...

I had a long post planned out in my head about last week's game where I started by talking about our surprise bus ride to the Superdome ...

What the hell is wrong with this guy?

Radical militia groups Angry white people Media fascination with "young conservative activists" An ineffectual corporatist Democra...

Eventually every neighborhood will have its own expensive but useless faux-po squad empowered to walk around texting each other and frownin...

With budget exhausted, SPCA to muzzle service

According to Cao's billboard it would take 11 Caos to pay for one .

Also I pay for most of my bills by check. Maybe I'm an old man but I'm not comfortable granting some utility or telecom permission ...

CBS - Drew Brees has a strained MCL in his left knee, according to WIST-AM in New Orleans, which is citing a source familiar with the situ...

This is a cute post about the state of LSU football which begins with a trip into the "Heart of Darkness" so Ignatius Reilly like...

New Orleans LA,-As required by the Louisiana Supreme Court, the New Orleans Police Department is issuing a public advisory regarding a sobri...

More or less anyway You can talk all you want about what happened earlier in the game, and why "it never should have come to that in t...

Sherriff Gusman is circumventing the permitting process and beginning construction on a "temporary" facility on the site of his co...

Newly Declassified Documents Show Bush Administration Looked For Excuse To Start War In Iraq In Nov. 2001

Going on the road can be a harrowing experience for anybody. Any given trip is fraught with hidden hazards, surprises, unanticipated foes l...

Very tired of watching this movie over and over and over

Pat asks, perhaps, the most crucial question regarding Cynthia Lee Sheng's real estate extortion/land grab redevelopment in Fat City. ...

It would have been so easy to let the Bush tax cuts on upper income earners expire, extend the tax cuts, on middle and lower income earners,...

But hey Casamento's is open so that's something, right? "One of the great untold stories is that we've really ravaged our o...

Good to know our representatives are fighting BP tooth and nail for more marketing money . Because the problem here really is all image-rela...

Ladies and gentlemen, the 111th Congress. They did the absolute least they could with the most we could give them. One would think that ex...

We promise to bang out the long form post sooner this week than last. In the meantime, Saints fans, quit squirming. There will be plenty sit...

QOTD: Times Picayune reporter Bob Marshall relating something he was forced to ask a BP representative in a phone conversation. “Do the fis...

I'm guessing, the next election cycle could produce a showdown between the exorcism wing vs the witchcraft wing. Maybe there should be...

2 hours before kickoff. I have to cook and then get everything across town in time to see the game. I'm busting out this recipe again m...

I'm sure this is all perfectly normal. Lately, what is keeping the parish on its collective toes are fish kills: at least four major on...

Yes, this is the long overdue Saints-Vikings game recap. I wasn't sure if I was going to get it in or not but Brad Childress put three ...

BP refuses to pay Alabama's oil spill claim, citing lawsuit; state education budget cut BP PLC told Gov. Bob Riley today that it wouldn...

I thought the Good Gubmint REformers like Jindal were supposed to value education because it was the future and, um, think about the childre...

The NFL’s Next Evolution The NFL became a passing league during the Brady-Manning decade, a period that ushered in rules changes that made ...

Sometimes a person will come in and check out a stack of travel guides pertaining to some faraway country or region. I never know how to fee...

Oil washing ashore now back-page news

Not if you mean New Orleans in late summer, you better freaking not.

The worst thing about right wing conspiracy shills is that they actually are many of the things they accuse others of being .

NOLA.com: The typical resident of the New Orleans metropolitan area pays 33percent more in housing costs than before Hurricane Katrina stru...

Billy Southern in yesterday's T-P : If Abraham Lincoln, the president of a fractured country at war with itself, didn't have the co...

Where's the oil? On the Gulf floor, scientists say

Huge fish kill reported in Plaquemines Parish

January 24, 2010 was a hell of a day. Prior to a few sentences in the post below this one, the sum total of my remarks on this event to date...