New Orleans I get up early. That’s the way it’s always been. Today is one of the three days a week that the more than 175 year old Times-Picayune is actually delivered to our home. The once daily Times-Pic is also a sometimes delivery paper. At 430 am, I found it properly positioned on the steps of my porch. That makes 3 of 6 times …
Month: August 2014
Coffee Rust Worse Problem for Border and Coffee Drinkers than Reported
New Orleans Sometimes you know it’s bad, but you still haven’t wrapped your mind around the full ripple effects of how bad it might be. Focusing on the immigration crisis for children and families at the Mexico-United States border, I have concentrated on the problems we knew were coming from communities organized by ACORN International, …
Too Much Data in Too Many Hands for Both Good and Evil
New Orleans An observation decades ago always stuck with me. It was a comparison of Americans and people who live elsewhere. The point made by the author, whose name fittingly has long ago left me, is that we have too much information at hand and too little ability to process it. Ironically, that was then, …