New Orleans When I used to call up Charlie Andersen, my home-garage, auto mechanic, about whether one or another of my beat up trucks was ready to be picked up, he’d always warn me by saying, “Don’t bring twenty; bring plenty!” There was rarely a better expression that could stand for one of the central …
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What Goes Around, Comes Around, Even for Presidents like Wilson
New Orleans A saying with common currency in recent years has been, “haters gonna hate.” An old one that seems almost timeless from the later part of the last century is, “what goes around, comes around.” As a matter of long standing record, I’m rooting for campus protestors these days on the issues of race and …
Public Racism is now a Hope for Voters’ Rights
New Orleans Maybe in a weird, crazy way we are going to end up being able to find a silver lining in the dark cloud of the stark racism expressed recently by the Nevada rancher’s slavery bear hug and the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner’s snarling slurs to his mistress. How could progressives have picked more …