Library Chronicles

It's not quite the techno-feudal state we're headed toward just yet but it is beginning to take on some of those characteristics.   ...

Yes, there is another election date coming up December 5.  There are runoffs in a couple of the judicial races from November, a very importa...

Here is reform candidate for District Atttorney Jason Williams during the city budget hearings this month rejecting calls to defund polic...

This is from a few weeks ago but I'm still thinking about it for some reason. Bill Cassidy says here that a half-hearted Joe Biden pro...

Louisiana's inclusion in Hurricane Eta's "cone of uncertainty" marks the eighth (Eta-ghth?) time we've been there thi...

 Somebody wrote that five years ago. Or something to that effect Again, Irvin Mayfield, himself, isn't the actual problem. He is a sym...

It's only November but already the matter of Carnival 2021 has fallen into chaos . The city has apparently outsourced its authority to m...

Maybe this format isn't for everybody, but, for me at least, Christman's Twitch streams have been helpful in keeping things in persp...

Did we talk about the Democratic convention on here yet?  It's been such a weird year in so many ways. Too often I find myself falling b...

Once upon a time, in a city we used to live in, Halloween marked the beginning of the "fun" or, at least, the more socially sign...

  Yeah it's gonna bleak either way .  If a return to “normalcy” means having the same old politicians that are responsible for endless ...

I do hope to have some time to elaborate on this over the weekend but my expectations for the coming elections are significantly different f...

Yesterday I got out on the bike for a little while to see how bad it was around us.  It wasn't all that bad, really. A lot of tree debr...

Let's dance. Man, I don't know about y'all but I haven't felt this giddy since February. Finally, something different is hap...

It is city budget season.  Happy Holidays. There will be quite a few of those in the future for these folk s.  Unpaid, of course.  Chief Adm...

Look, we all knew there would have to be a Hurricane Zeta because there was just no way that the year 2020 A.D. was going out with the secon...

We're almost past the point of abandoning pretense.  At the same time that New Orleans administrators find themselves begging for help ...

Everyone's pretty much had all the fun to be had with this today.  But we do like to note predictions about the future whenever we fin...

Hey look at that. They did the thing . House Speaker Clay Schexnayder and the House Republican delegation have thrown their support behind ...

The legislature already has the power to rescind the governor's emergency declaration.  This was the case at the beginning of the specia...

You may not think you want to read a medium-length essay about the 1998 Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan vehicle "You've Got Mail" but you ...

I know we've talked previously about how the Bruno vs. Medley race is really all about Sidney Torres's "bloody" feud with...

Now seems like a terrific time to place more capital into the no-doubt soon to be booming indoor golf arcade business.  After construction d...

Here comes that third wave.    The rise since mid-September has been especially profound in the Midwest and Mountain West, where hospitals...

It's been a busy couple of days with little time to do much yellow blogging but we would be seriously derelict in our responsibilities i...

The emergency special session the legislature called supposedly to deal with governing and budgetary issues emanating from  the COVID pandem...