The Huck Upchuck

I was at a very nice social event recently and was hanging out with some of my buddies from High School. Smart guys. Well-regarded physici...

The long-suffering, yet ever faithful fans of the New Orleans Saints are walking around stunned, but jubilant. It's simply inconceivabl...

BLOG UNDER SURVEILLANCE: Right Wing News Issue: Hawkins AGAIN Plays the Race Card Conservative Blogger John Hawkins once again argues that b...

How anyone can take this farce seriously as the potential leader of the free world is beyond me. Watch the clip below. What's most dis...

The Tulane Undergraduate Conference on Latin America (TUCLAS) is taking place this Saturday. We in the Stone Center for Latin American Stud...

Checkout line scuffle . Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm just being the "pretentious elitist liberal" that conservatives like to say...

In short, I think so. From Kyle Turley, former Saints lineman, in a gripping and disturbing article in The New Yorker magazine: I remember...

I remain absolutely stunned by Ray Nagin's attitude towards the City of New Orleans in his final days. Once again, Nagin is jetsetting ...

On the first weekend of the LHSAA football playoffs , I think it merits noting that every single one of the five Catholic League teams (Dist...

And this is the guy that is now the voice of reason and logic among conservatives and one of the movement's revered leaders? What a jok...

Just for fun, here's a blast from the past from Sesame Street. I don't remember watching this as a kid, but I do have fond memories...

My youngest daughter, now in the the second grade in a local public school, pulled out her "poetry" collection from her kindergart...

Rep. Cao, I sure hope you are paying attention. As a liberal Democrat who almost always votes Party-line, know that I voted for you and I s...

Oyster over at Your Right Hand Thief has a blistering and crushing piece on Republican Rob Couhig's indecisiveness about his running f...

I'm not necessarily one for having religious faith inform decisively one's public policy positions in a system rooted in separation ...

He is the ONLY Republican in the Federal House of Representatives to vote for the House Health Insurance Reform bill. And Louisiana Democr...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has endorsed the recently amended House Health Insurance Reform Legislation . They are con...

To all those conservatives going ape-sh** crazy about the Muslim shooter in the Fort Hood incident, because he's a Muslim , I'd like...

This Korean Band, Eugene of Flower, covers probably the most difficult song from one of my all-time favorite bands. And they're awesome...

A common myth in our political culture is that on the economic front conservatives are fiscally responsible and liberals are fiscally reckle...