New Orleans When I woke before dawn this morning there was the same acrid smell of burning fires that greets you in Delhi, but I was home. It means there was a fire that our low water pressure could not handle and another abandoned building still standing in the wake of Katrina, had now fallen. …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Civil Rights Paperwork
Los Angeles David Garrow, the Pulitzer Prize winning biographer of Rev. Martin Luther King, made some important points that are worth worry about the King papers in an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times on Friday. If you’ve missed the backstory on this, King’s family has swirled in controversy for years based on their …
Chairman Warren
New Orleans It’s hard not to read the business pages of the daily papers and not know who Warren E. Buffet is. They fawn on his investment strategy. Sometimes they call him the “Oracle of Omaha,” which I guess passes for a complement and high praise. Put wild, crazy money in someone’s hands, especially if …