Posts from September, 2005
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Sep1Brawl of the Brits: Hitchens vs. Galloway
Countdown: 24 Hours. Hitchens vs. Galloway in NYC, 7:00PM EST George Galloway (Gorgeous? Or Gruesome?) is the British MP famous for “electriying the United States with his appearance at a Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on May 17, when he turned the proceedings into a condemnation of the war in Iraq.” He’s currently on [...]
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Sep0Comments On
Trying again. I turned off comment functionality a while back because spammers used this to promote their casino and porn sites. I may have found a workaround to that problem. Fingers crossed…
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Sep1New Orleans as Galveston
Outside of Texas, Galveston’s history isn’t well known. But for the latter half of the 1800′s, Galveston was the largest and most sophisticated city in the state of Texas. In addition to its major port facilities, it claimed “the state’s first post office, first naval base, first bakery, first gaslights, first opera house, first telephones, [...]
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Sep0Predictable
You knew it was coming: a church sign in East Texas reads, “The big easy is the modern day Sodom and Gomorrah.” I’m guessing that if the sign had space for more letters, it would have finished with, “… and deserved to be destroyed.” But let’s keep some perspective. America’s faithful are doing an extraordinary [...]
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Sep0Trapped at Tulane
Until recently I assumed my friend Brad fled New Orleans before Katrina arrived. I learned that he was just evacuated–via helicopter. I don’t have any details but I think Brad and several others were holed-up at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. He’s taken some photos of New Orleans before and after the flooding. My [...]
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