New Orleans Coming and going in New Orleans, five will get you ten, someone will say something or ask about what you think of Treme, the new David Simon show on HBO. Long local reference and reality check articles are written in the days after the broadcast by Keith Spera of the Times-Picayune who is …
Category: Personal Writings
Karen, Kenya Stalemate & Nairobi Return
Nairobi Flying to Nairobi takes forever. Seems to be no way around that fact, and despite email, Skype, digital pictures, and ubiquitous cell phones, anything nearly 5000 miles away is hard to hold firm in the hands. The work is slippery, no matter how hard applied, and there’s still nothing better than going out and …
O’Keefe Never Dressed as Pimp, Breitbart Cover-up
Dallas James O’Keefe never dressed in his racist, caricature pimp suit in an ACORN or ACORN Housing office. This has been an under-the-radar dispute for more than six months, largely because it fades in importance compared to the errors a small number of workers were trapped into making. But, with the new attention on O’Keefe …