What a week for Mayor elect  Mitch Landrieu!  How could anyone create a better scenario to begin rebuilding and renewal in New Orleans?  An overwhelming first primary victory, the saints win the Super bowl, and Mardi Gras just days away.  The new Mayor is on an unbelievable roll right now with accolades raining down on...Read More

  Thursday, February 11, 2010 New Orleans, Louisiana WHEN THE CHEERING STOPS IN NEW ORLEANS, WHAT WILL THE NEW MAYOR DO?  What a week for Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu!  How could anyone create a better scenario to begin rebuilding and renewal in New Orleans?  An overwhelming first primary victory, the saints win the Super bowl, and...Read More

Former LSU basketball great Rudy Macklin is a class act, and well honored this week.   His No. 40 jersey was retired at 5the LSU-Kentucky game last Saturday, and was unfurled from the rafters, along with other basketball greats Bob Petit, Pete Maravich and Shaquille O’Neal.  Rudy was the first great LSU player I followed back...Read More

Well as you can well imagine, no matter where you might live, things were really crazy in New Orleans this week.  Can you believe that the New Orleans Saints win the Super Bowl in the same week as Mardi Gras?  Just couldn’t happen any place else.  The voice of the Saints is former NFL quarterback...Read More

Well we are just a few weeks from taking that trip down the rabbit hole.  I’m an unabashed Lewis Carroll fan, and read and re read “Alice in Wonderland” on a number of occasions.  And Tim Burton, that macabre eccentric film director, who I also really enjoy, has made a new version of Alice’s adventur3es...Read More

We have all heard how wild and wooly politics are out in California.  But things have really gotten strange in the race for US Senator.  The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina, is trying to unseat incumbent Barbara Boxer.  But she has a tough primary fight against fellow republican Tim Campbell.  So she has gone...Read More