New Orleans Bleary eyed from an 18-hour trip to Chicago, I opened the Times-Picayune early and glancing at the Metro section saw that a conservative, Republican-leaning, New Orleans City Councilwoman was trying to cut off funding to someone because of what she was saying was a “racist threat.” Something like that attracts the …
Category: Personal Writings
India Shift
Chicago Prime Minister Singh took a big political chance on a confidence vote, essentially substituting the left parties that formed with his Congress Party, the UPA coalition, with a collection of right parties, sufficiently to win the right to continue bargaining a treaty for nuclear assistance from the USA. Had he lost the vote, …
Dreams of Fidel
New Orleans Woke up this morning rubbing my eyes and scratching my head. The only dream I could remember featured Fidel Castro as a major player. Huh? Doctor! Doctor! Somehow he was sitting in the corner on the floor of a room I didn’t recognize, but felt comfortably like home. My whole family …