New Orleans Grabbing the mantle of a movement often seems like a first impulse for many protests and campaigns but reaching for it is not the same as being a movement. At the same time there are signs that can’t be missed when a real movement is stirring. I found delightful evidence in what many …
Month: June 2018
Cameras, Churches and Crime
New Orleans Recently, two kids managed to grab-and-run with a couple of hundred bucks at Fair Grinds Coffeehouse as one created a distraction and other jumped the counter. The neighboring grocery store cameras had great pictures of them scouting their location. We spent a lot of time trying to give the footage to the police. …
Bet on the Players Not the President
New Orleans President Trump could have, and in fact should have, just declared victory over the cowering and hapless National Football League billionaire owners and called it a day, case closed. He had proven that a poorer man could successfully bully a whole gaggle of richer men. For once in his life, he should have …