The police and firemen, he says, are so traumatized that they can’t function. TWO OF THEM have committed suicide. Nagin is trying to evacuate the police and fire workers OUT of the city. Ideally, he’d like to get...
Read MoreThat’s not a metaphor. In the French Quarter there’s Ride Hamilton, 29. And there’s Joseph Bellomy, 23. Bellomy, a bartender, got a bit of medical training when he served in the Air Force. Hamilton, a...
Read More“Maybe that’s enough death for them.” For days I’ve been haunted by those words that Jeff Wells wrote in his blog, Rigorous Intuition. Maybe you think the worst is over, now Bush has had his photo op as...
Read MoreGood morning, and welcome once again to Sunday Griot! I’m very glad to see you here safe and dry. Today’s story is a short one, and not the one I had hoped to tell today; but then they say that life is what happens...
Read MoreFBC Bulletin Board Kansas announced the launch of the Powell’s/BooTrib Book Club. The first book on the reading list is Bayou Farewell by Mike Tidwell. The Book Club will meet in late October, tentatively October...
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