Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting. Plane loads of lawyers …
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Qualifying Parties via Internet
New Orleans In a piece about the feinting being done by billionaire NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Matt Bai in the New York Times correctly pointed out that not only money but “ballot access” was a huge impediment to alternative political parties and candidacies. A throwaway comment though got me thinking when he mentioned that qualifying …
Parties of Me Pretending to Be Parties of Thee
New Orleans Are you thinking and talking about the recent elections still? Well, yes, I am because now is the time to prepare for the coming elections in 2 years. In writing recently about the Tea Party and Me Party dominance in various elections, friends raised the new “top 2” primary system in California which …