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submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

“Building a dual state need not end in genocide: Russia and Singapore have followed the same model of the dual state … as the Nazis did. Their deepest similarity, rather, is that both are intolerant of political dissent and leave the overwhelming majority of citizens alone.”

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

New Orleans. Here before the United States — and maybe after too.

submitted 112 days ago • 1 comment

Some happy moments this weekend care of Krewe da Bhan Gras, Buffalo Soldiers, Merry Antoinettes, and L. B. Landry High.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

I picked up this matryoshka from a Ukrainian vendor at a Baltimore art market in 2017. Eight years later, not much has changed. Maybe not even in the 86 years since the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

So MapQuest still exists and is good, but the bigger story is what happens when you search Google for “Chicxulub crater.” I won’t pretend I remembered the spelling.

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

Wait where’d the nice weather go? Oh.

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

Close enough from in here, thanks.

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

Snowing in N’orleans like beignet sugar

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

“The last remnants of the old Republic have been swept away.”

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

L-EAUX-L

submitted 152 days ago • 27 comments

I'm old enough to remember calls for letting New Orleans drown coming from within our own state — even then.

submitted 153 days ago • 1 comment

11.4 Million dollars. For 200 People. For 2 months. You could give that to them in cash and it would be a fucking down payment on a house. But the point is not solving homelessness. The point has always been cruelty

submitted 153 days ago • 4 comments

Operators are standing by. www.nola.com/news/courts/...

submitted 157 days ago • 0 comments

Well, in Whoville they say that the Grinch's small heart grew three sizes that day

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment

Please give the fireworks a break tonight, y’all.

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

To do list: 1) get to work writing a lengthy indictment against our century. 2) make an occasional cheese dip

submitted 221 days ago • 1 comment

Fun with Google Trends: the “learning about things too late” edition

submitted 221 days ago • 0 comments

Five-act play in the nola.com sidebar.

submitted 256 days ago • 0 comments

‘Tis the season. “Labor Day, all the way. Do all your shopping at Wal-Mart.”

submitted 286 days ago • 0 comments

“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”

submitted 473 days ago • 0 comments