Dick Cheney

Read this closely, including the comments. It is important to watch Cheney and then figure out what to do. I am particularly startled by this comment: Cheney, whatever he may say, wants to be president. He figures that no one else will want to run against Obama and that he will have the full support … More Dick Cheney

Response to E: On Having Three or Four Degrees From UC-Berkeley

1. E’s original supposition was that I do not appreciate our great state enough, because I am “a snob from California” [sic] who looks down on Louisiana because it is not moneyed enough for me. I pointed out that I am a state worker, not a tourist, that I have been a state worker here … More Response to E: On Having Three or Four Degrees From UC-Berkeley

In Which Mary Ann Sternberg Correctly Exhorts Us To Help Save LSU Press

[She asks:] Did you know that the LSU administration has listed LSU Press as a unit targeted for deep budget cuts or perhaps even closure? Here is the important paragraph, from p. 12 of the budget draft: Cut general fund support to academic support units This cut will require certain academic support entities to implement … More In Which Mary Ann Sternberg Correctly Exhorts Us To Help Save LSU Press

Levees Not War

The following letter has been faxed and mailed to LSU Chancellor Mike Martin, with copies to engineering dean David Constant, vice chancellors Chuck Wilson, Brooks Keel, and Robert Twilley (“the O’Keefe gang”); Governor Bobby Jindal, senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter; Garret Graves, Governor’s Office of Coastal Activities; and R. King Milling, Chairman, America’s Wetland … More Levees Not War

Eve Ensler

We now continue our May Day activities this really brilliant video with Eve Ensler. Watch it through to the very end and you will be truly glad. It comes from this very interesting site, TED.com — a bank of talks containing “ideas worth spreading.” Axé.

Clément Janequin

I dedicate this May Day to the workers of course, to Janequin, to Flora, and to children. It is the weekend, and I am singing that our camping trip is tomorrow. I am  so excited, I can hardly wait! Axé.

Jeffrey Davidow

Read this on Davidow, from the Huffington Post. Look at his background, and observe his rhetoric. Yes, this is an ideologue, not an objectively informed person or an ethical speaker. Axé.