December 11, 2020 New Orleans      Ok, fair enough. Maybe I spoke too soon when I suggested that some grassroots Republican officeholders at the state and local level deserved our thanks for standing in front of the Trump bully-dozers to protect some of the last vestiges of American democracy.         I wasn’t …

December 10, 2020 New Orleans      Just in case there are small children, hermits in caves, and others in America outside the borders of normal communication and news channels, it is important to understand that being a state attorney general is not really a legal job, though most all of them claim to be lawyers. …

December 9, 2020 New York Times New Orleans   Recently, I sat for my annual physical. I’m not sure, but I’ve probably seen my doctor annually now for the last twenty years. Eventually, you work out a pattern to these things. After all this time, she knows to call me by my middle name  In times …