Members of the Florida National Guard (FLNG) gather with local hospital staff to collaborate on donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE) during Task Force – Medicals’ response to the […]
Category: Op-Ed/Lagniappe
A Democratic Hoax Gone Viral
March 15, 2020 Donald Trump. These two simple words evoke quite a number of strong reactions from most Americans. Some react with passionate disgust for the man while others react with blind […]
First Amendment Gives You A Right To Be A Jerk, But With A Price
March 6, 2020Years ago, at the now defunct Warehouse Grille (since rebranded Flamingo A Go Go) on Magazine & St. Joseph and hours before the Saints were scheduled to play the Carolina […]
The Raso Report: Mice Rejoice as Trump Claims Cures for AIDS and Cancer “Very Shortly”
January 14, 2020Today is a glorious day for mankind and lab mice everywhere, as Trump announced that his administration has nearly defeated AIDS and child cancer. “We will achieve new breakthroughs in […]
The Raso Report: Breaking News! New Hard Rock Hotel to be Built on Top of Old Hard Rock Hotel and Other Brilliant Ideas
January 11, 2020The City Planning Commission, in association with the Hard Rock Hotel committee, has come up with several possibilities for what to do with the current disaster that has building innards […]
Trump’s Assassination of Top Iranian General is an Act of War Reversing Years of Progress
January 4, 2020Trump’s decision to carry out the assassination of Iran’s top general is a very poorly calculated and dangerous action against a country that posed no imminent threat to our national […]
Troy is Burning: Cassandra-esque Warnings to Salvage SWB Fall on Deaf Ears
January 1, 2020Once again the New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board is in the news with another systemic failure: its engines are literally burning and SWB did not pay its federal payroll […]
On leaving Green New Deal event at Mahalia Jackson Theatre for the Performing Arts, and finding myself exiting through Armstrong Park’s main entrance
December 20, 2019On May 7th, 2019, going to Mahalia Jackson Theatre for The Performing Arts (for the Green New Deal gathering and rally) was a very nice 2-block walk down a side […]
Hate Trump? He’s done so much for us!
December 6, 2019“Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” ― Mark Twain The entirety of the Trump era is despised by 55% of […]
Dying of Indifference: How Officials, Media, and Police Trivialize the Epidemic of Reckless Driving in New Orleans
December 4, 2019In the dark, early hours one summer in 2016, two people killed a man. We don’t know his name, because the journalists who reported his death never bothered to […]
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