New Orleans: We’re viole...

Jul 3, 2014 by lunanola

New Orleans: We’re violent, but no longer lethal

(Post title credit: Alex Rawls of My Spilt Milk) Earlier today, some friends and I were contemplating the following story, which...

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Hard truths

Jul 11, 2013 by lunanola

Hard truths

Yesterday evening, I posted the following somewhere in the realm of the ether and pixels: “What I’ve not been saying...

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Her James

May 14, 2013 by liprap

Her James

Nearly four years ago, a young boy by the name of Jeremy Galmon was shot and killed after a second line had passed by, a casualty of...

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Random Flotsam 5: Bad, Bad Bre...

Mar 3, 2012 by liprap

No, the title of this post isn’t ’cause anything else happened to my 97% healed ankle, although it looks like one of my...

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Occupation Chess

Dec 12, 2011 by liprap

Occupation Chess

Straight from folksinger and New Orleans resident Ani DiFranco: Did you visit Occupy NOLA? Yeah, I did go down there, two or three...

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