New Orleans The old saying is that “pride cometh before a fall,” and sometimes pure arrogance continues to be glaringly obvious even after a fall. It will be interesting to see if Facebook learns anything from its disastrous mishandling of internet access and politics in India or the whipping that India just gave them. The …
Month: February 2016
Finally Some Steps to Stop Seafood Slavery
New Orleans When we’re shopping for dog and cat food, most of us think we are ahead of the game if we make sure we’re not buying something that fills up the bowl, but is really mostly pelleted grain of one sort or another. We read the labels and make sure there’s real protein in …
Can Hospitals Afford NOT to Be Ready for Disaster?
Baton Rouge The headline caught my eye. Sheri Fink, author of what has to be the definitive case study of a hospital in crisis post-Katrina, the award-winning Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital, had written an op-ed piece in the Times entitled, “Can Hospitals Afford to Be Ready for Disaster.” …