When non-violence in speech, thought and action is established, one’s aggressive nature is relinquished and others abandon hostility in one’s presence. ~Yoga Sūtra II.35 of Patañjali. On the evening of September 11, 2001, I had a yoga class scheduled. Knowing yoga always cleared my mind, I decided not to skip it. It was a small [...]
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned; they therefore do as they like. ~ Baron Thurlow of England (1731-1806). Have we learned nothing in 250 years? I put the likelihood of a BP executive going to jail over the Gulf Coast oil spill at 0%. Why? Well, for starters Obama has [...]
If I hear the analogy of “we don’t shut down the entire airline industry because one plane crashed” again in reference to the deepwater drilling moratorium, I will scream. Or maybe poke someone’s eye out. Or scream WHILE I poke someone’s eye out. First, it’s not “one plane crashed.” It’s THOUSANDS of planes crashing: one [...]
See my new little piece of flare? Look to the right, down, more, more. There! My counter showing how many days BP has been spewing oil into the Gulf. We are on Day 43. Gah. I’d like to say I’m settling in with it, like the proverbial “pebble in the shoe.” But that is not [...]
Affairs have reached such a crisis that men living in an organized and civilized community, finding their laws fruitless and ineffective, are forced to protect themselves; when courts fail, the people must act! That’s from Who Killa Da Chief? in “Gumbo Ya-Ya.” It was part of a speech given to an angry mob after a [...]
Here we are at Day 40. It’s hard to even find new words to describe the utter frustration and disbelief of us down in the Gulf area, and hopefully throughout the United States, and maybe the world. Obama flew down yesterday. It was anti-climactic to say the least. I am never sure what people expect [...]
“There’s nobody in charge who has any passion for doing the right thing.” 0 I Like This
Day 32. BP’s oil spill is a cancer we have all been watching. And each day IT. JUST. GETS. WORSE. My stress levels are out of control. I TRY not to get too consumed, not to read EVERY report, to skip a day of any coverage. But even what little I allow in is too [...]
That question stops me in my tracks. It makes the blood in my veins turn to ice. It is the single most thing I have worried about, revisited, decided, started over, anon since Sun was born: Where will she attend grammar school? For over a year, the decision has been at a smallish Catholic school [...]
If you are a New Orleanian, or a ‘Near Orleanian,’ and you watch HBO’s new series, “Treme,” you WILL have an opinion. Here’s mine, having read no others yet. Knowing it was set three months after Katrina had me going into it with an expectation of not liking it. We, the citizens of the City, [...]