Round trip from Maringouin is 122 miles, and a total of 3 hours driving time. In my car, on those roads, that is about 4 gallons of gasoline, at about $4 each, for a total of $16 plus cost of maintaining the car and so on, so let us call this $25 plus time. Lunch … More Cost of a trip to the state prison
Ya se ven, ya se ven, ya se ven. Axé.
In my favorite jobs it has been possible to do research and writing during the day, on weekdays. That is when I have worked the least and gotten the most done. Most jobs I have had have had me in workshops, meetings, student activities, and classes 9-5, when not 8-5 or 11-8, so I have … More Research during the day, weekdays
It is time to plan the semester so I am starting with festivals. I have never been to the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, which we see here, and I believe I shall attend. On Mardi Gras Day I may find Indians, and I will go to the Indian parade in March. Axé.
I had expected to eat clam chowder and drink bad beer in some dive in old Eureka, California, but found that the entire place is now an elegant shopping zone with a gourmet culture. You can have a glass of fine wine while listening to a live singer and surfing the web on wi-fi. On … More Intrepid
The closest declaration to this section of the NDAA 2012 bill is the German Enabling Act of 1933, the Ermächtigungsgesetz or Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich and you know where that led. Axé.
These days, it’s hard to recognize that America. The wage stagnation that began in the late ’70s has since bestowed on us the kind of income inequality more typical of a third-world oligarchy. The real minimum wage is less than it was in 1968, and the richest 1 percent of Americans take home nearly 25 … More That America
Axé.
I unexpectedly saw the inauguration of the live Nativity at 4:30 PM, 23 December 2011, at the shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at Columbus and Vallejo in San Francisco. There were four angels, three shepherds, two goats, two lambs, one llama, one donkey, and one Holy Family with a live baby. Outside was an … More St. Francis of Assisi
I ended up in Granada, Nicaragua in December of 2005, because it was so inexpensive to get there and I wanted to get away from Katrina’s New Orleans. Had I been thinking more clearly I would have remembered what I usually explain: that Louisiana is like Honduras, El Salvador or Nicaragua, so to go to … More Granada, Nicaragua as seen by our narrator
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