David Simon is a mensch

Simon’s commencement tribute to Ashley Morris.

Friday critter blogging: best pony story ever

There’s a lot of recurring talk about ponies in parts of the blog-hood I hang out in, and in this context, ponies usually bring smiles, or at least satisfaction.
Now, via good neighbor thepolitcalcat, comes what has to be the best pony tale I’ve heard in a very long time. Yeah, I had to smile when [...]

Happy birthday Scout Prime!

In the unlikely event someone asked me to describe the progressive blogosphere, I’m not sure what my complete answer would be but I know for a fact that I’d point to Scout Prime and say, “That woman? That one there? She’s a prime example of the very best of it.”
I remember hanging out [...]

Ashley Morris Memorial Fund

The Ashley Morris Memorial Fund has been set up. Ashley is survived by a wife and three small children , a family having to cope with sudden and unexpected loss of a husband and father.
Even his most casual acquaintances know how much Ashley loved community, how much he could made them feel part of [...]

Ashley Morris, gone too fucking soon

I barely knew him, never met him in person, but goddamn, I had so much fun during the little bit we worked together on the NuPac. I figured that when I did meet him, we’d talk for hours over a great meal and some drinks, and I looked forward to enjoying him face to face.
Damn.
Visit [...]

Reason 83, Why we love Willie

Heh:
When they write the history of country music, Willie Nelson will be a chapter and Kenny Chesney will be a sentence.
On his new Moment Of Forever album, produced by Chesney, Willie covers Randy Newman’s classic Lousiana, 1927. But Willie drops the year out of the title and changes the words up a bit:
Prezdent [...]

Olbermann & Maddow: Disaster Capitalism 101, “Incompetence or Intent?”

Last night Keith and Rachel tag-teamed out a “compelling” case that disaster capitalism is alive and well in America. KO set things up beginning with the damning report on the behemoth failure of the Department of Homeland Security, DHS: Five Years of Mismanagement, released yesterday by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington [...]

For NOLA’s unwelcome visitor

Image via Suspect Device 

Chris Matthews is already getting wood just thinking about this

via scout, who’s been down at the Rising Tide conference, I read something that boggles my mind. The Chimperor, aka Miserable Failure, aka Drunky McStagger (™ Sinfonian) is planning on making a visit to New Orleans to mark Katrina’s second anniversary.
Care to join me in a befuddled chorus of “WTF?” ?
According to the [...]

Then and Now

Today is the 37th anniversary of Hurricane Celia’s landfall on the Texas Coast. Despite its small size, Celia was the costliest hurricane in Texas history, due to intense localized wind gusts, tornado-like microbursts, within the storm system that left anything they touched literally reduced to splinters. Infrastructure, commercial structures, homes, boats and automobiles were demolished.
The [...]