Library Chronicles

Actually now that there's a Cyndi Lauper shrine I'm coming around to the idea of each washed up or out of place pop act at Jazzfest...

Gov. Bobby Jindal releases his birth certificate Later this week I will be releasing my high school diploma, my cat's vaccination record...

When I learned this morning that Mitch Landrieu was getting ready to make an "important announcement" I was almost certain he was ...

From a press release sent out by the city this afternoon : New Orleans is a city of diversity creating a gumbo of people from all walks of l...

At first glance you might think, wow what crappy year for BP . WASHINGTON — BP will pay $25 million in civil fines to settle charges arising...

This is serious This would be the first time the emergency spillway has been used since 1973, when another record high river threatened to u...

Parts of Armstrong Park will reopen on Monday, Mayor Mitch Landrieu says: A letter to the editor Reminds me a favorite drunken domestic disp...

Slate's Jack Schaefer lays out the wide variance of fact in the early reporting on the Bin Laden raid. The news output will only expand...

There are three moments in this NYT article about the swelling Mississippi that should get everyone's attention. The first is a quote f...

I presume they'll tell us when this changes. Jefferson Parish Public Works Director Kazem Alikhani says the river is clearly on the ris...

Oh happy day . For those eagerly awaiting former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's retrospective on his time at City Hall, the wait apparent...

9/11 Widow Kristen Breitweiser: But more than anything, I cannot seem to remove the optics of the giddy, gleeful throngs of Americans who t...

Just a reminder. Despite the continuous finger shaking at ninth ward "alarmists" and "conspiracy theorists"* this sort o...

What DeShazier said. If a guard had been picked with the notion of taking reps from Jahri Evans or a safety had been snatched up on the beli...

Now begins the phase of the story where bullshit rumors become a permanent part of the narrative. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A woman killed dur...

Dave Zirin on "Sports, bin Laden, and the New Normal" Since 9/11, the sports arena has been an organizer of patriotism, a recruite...

Basically, what Greenwald said . But beyond the emotional fulfillment that comes from vengeance and retributive justice, there are two point...

Okay that joke's a little old by this point in the evening but I wasn't going to give it up. I just watched the President give a spe...

Moseley Seriously, after this non-response to Macondo, what type of “wake up call” would actually make us alter the terms of the state’s abu...

Bobby Jindal will go to the mat for his scheme to privatize the Louisiana Office of Group Benefits. Administration officials say privatizati...

I know, Reggie. I'm pissed off that the Saints didn't draft Heyward too. Since he hasn't done much to clarify this statement or ...

Only difference is here there aren't any decent unions. The mayor also plans to embark on an overhaul of the antiquated civil service s...

First, I have to sit inside all day long on what's surely the last day of nice weather we're going to have until November. Then they...

It's never a good idea to set one's hungover mind upon the absurdities of the political silly season just after a Hornets playoff lo...

I'm too old and too set in my dietary ways to avoid this stuff regardless but here's a green light anyway. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Recrea...

Gleaned from the Tweeter Tube: The Fed can't do anything about inflation because of the gas prices and the Mid-East unrest and stuff. Al...

Bobby Jindal is still going to sign the birther bill, right?

It's a long list. But during 21 minutes at the House podium -- long by this governor's standards -- Jindal steered clear of any men...

How many of you knew that Congo Square had been officially renamed Beauregard Square? According to widely accepted historical tradition, Af...

If you're watching Treme tonight instead of the Hornets, you are precisely what is wrong with New Orleans right now

A lot of people have nostalgic longings for the return of a ground-level N. Claiborne Avenue but I wonder if all of the nostalgic longers u...

Some day Demo Diva will run for office, no doubt. She gets particularly irate when the city does not approve requests to demolish buildings...

NYT ends this article on quantitative easing with a leading question, but seriously I don't know what they're so confused about. A...

BP agrees to $1 billion advance payment for restoration projects I know, it's an impressive headline but look. Louisiana and other stat...

Even in tough times, the lesson here, I guess, is never run your department at a budget surplus. It attracts way too many predators. But cr...

It must suck to be an actual practicing Catholic during Holy Week. While there are zillions of time honored, piously meatless recipes in cir...

Seems like just yesterday we were talking the parallel hazards of deepwater drilling and natural gas hydrofracking . The Pennsylvania Depar...

Ken Feinberg is still an asshole.

Oil still there? Yep, just checking.

The legacy of this century in the Gulf. More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, wi...

Still fucked a year later. Gonna be that way for a while.

What Pat said

Oyster sacks down by 100,000 after oil spill PASS CHRISTIAN, MS (WLOX) -A report from the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources indica...

The oil is, of course, still there .

It's not the attempt to out-Birther the Birtheriest Birthers that makes Bobby Jindal so pathetic. Rather, it's what it reveals abou...

Note: It turns out the HHS "action" banning the use of dispersants was actually a "Yes Men" prank which I fell for. I ...

Brentin Mock, once again, lays out the importance of the Gulf Coast to a wholly uninterested nation. America can't afford to keep the Gu...

BP says it's not responsible for paying to reseed oyster beds

What about this do people not get by this point? Beyond that, are we dealing with children here? Is one of our two major political parties ...

Haven't seen one of these in a while. Which neighborhood? Perhaps both? New Orleans, LA – As required by the Louisiana Supreme Court, th...

Central City houses featured by HBO's 'Treme' meet the wrecking ball Update: This is interesting . David Simon tells us the Tre...

Perhaps then I can resume my panhandling in peace. New Orleans City Council to discuss redistricting at 6 p.m. meeting

Makes more sense than any of the "buzz" to this point, anyway. Also nice to see yet another bank branch is going up across the st...

We are nearing the end of Food For Fines week at the library. For those of you who are not familiar with this event, each year, in conjuncti...

I've got some context to add later to this Glenn Greenwald post but no time right now. So just go read it. Greenwald has been more righ...

Obama In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on m...