New Orleans Sometimes they simply protest too much, and sometimes strange bedfellows are simply bedfellows caught strangely. This would be my summary on the team being put together to in Washington to whine about some of the new mortgage lending rules that the Mortgage Bankers Association, never a group that I would pick for the …
Author: wade
$300 House Might be a Disaster Solution, Not a Social Solution
New Orleans I read all of these stories about cheap, modular construction in various designs from assorted materials. I find them fascinating and quaint. Mainly, I read them to give me ideas for how to rebuild our fishing camp across Lake Pontchartrain or to plant in the mountains or woods as a retreat somewhere. It …
Post-Disaster “Cleansing” in Alabama
New Orleans Once you start looking, it’s hard to avoid the patterns, even in the worst of tragic disasters caused by hurricanes, floods, and tornadoes. The American version of “ethnic cleansing” where such devastations are used to rationalize the elimination or, as they would call it, the “rebalancing” of racial and class constituencies, is perhaps …