New Orleans Maybe I’m still in post-hurricane mode, so have lost my perspective, but for the life of me the Romney/Republican “We Built It” line seems the coup de grace of labor and our unions’ demise. Now “capital” in the face of Romney and the outrageousness of something like Bain, can not only claim they …
Month: September 2012
Landing from the Moon into America
New Orleans After four days with no power, which of course means no internet, erratic to infrequent newspaper delivery, and it turns out no working radio in the house and only weather and disaster news on the truck radio, it is somewhat wild to be thrust from the light of the full moon into modern day …
No News, No Power, No Way
New Orleans This is the way pre-industrial societies and social networks operate. Somehow I opened in the darkness with the generator roaring, doors flung wide open, and by the light of a flashlight at 630 AM telling folks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse that I had lots of choices. I had “hot coffee” and I had “hot …