…today, in New Orleans, I took these pictures, among others. I should crop and center them, I know. Many of the pictures I took are even less professional than this because with the glare, I really couldn’t see through the lens and was just clicking randomly. Axé.
I’d love to have a mellifluous and victorious name like this, to have victory against all machinations. But I can see I am going into an opera phase and I need it, to keep up spirits now that the Legislature and more entities are working at near full speed against all of our best interests. … More Ildebrando D’Arcangelo
The legislative session is being unleashed upon us today and it is easy to see why people are anti-government — what the Pelican State is going to do, apparently, is pass bills to better soak the public. Naturally, this will be done “without taxes.” From the LFT: The governor’s supporters say they want to pass … More Louisiana Legislature
It seems I am bypassing Lent entirely, as I have not stopped playing Carnival songs. Today, though, I visited the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where I am accompanying a prisoner on death row for as long as it takes. I have been doing this since 1992 and that is twenty years. In prison we … More Angola Road
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Orson Welles filmed an ambitious film of Brazil, much of which has been lost. This is a piece of it, on raft fishermen in the north, set to music by the immortal Dorival Caymmi. I have always been captivated by the look of these jangadas, with their sails. Axé.
In the brave new world we inhabit I do not allow graduate students to simply make their research presentation toward the end of the term. If I did, I would get the quality of presentation I now call a “first presentation.” Some comments on one were like this: Professor Zero: …although the “negative” poem is … More On analytical powers
This is arguably my best find ever in the archives of YouTube. Axé.
“By implementing more intensive screenings before prescribing the medication and requiring outpatient educational services, we can do more to prevent the potential side effects linked to PDE-5 inhibitors,” Senator Turner explained. “We must advocate for the traditional family, protect the sanctity of procreation, and ensure that all men using PDE-5 inhibitors are healthy, stable, and … More Nina Turner
Mysteriously, women nationwide are out spending piles of taxpayers’ money on sex paraphernalia – namely birth control – and men are not getting a single piece of all this fun. The Reclusive Leftist has offered us a refresher course on these matters, which I am adapting here. Taxpayers aren’t paying for Sandra Fluke’s healthcare or … More How insurance, and contraception work
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