CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • David Vitter Tweets About Tea Parties

    Apparently, David Vitter caught the Twitter bug, and today, he proudly announced tweeted  (Can we call him Sinator David “Twitter” Vitter?) that he has introduced a resolution (which will surely fail miserably) to make April 15th National Tea Party Day, which, in addition to honoring Earl Grey, Jasmine, Green, and Chai, will also provide an opportunity for a small contingency of far-right-wingers to put on their sunglasses and head to the nearby City Park armed with hastily-made and tragically unfunny signs (most of which will either call Obama’s citizenship into question or warn against the impending apocalypse). Someone hasn’t yet…

  • Dimtwitted

    So I caved in and added my Twitter feed to the right corner of the blog. Andrea may be right about the inanity of Twittering, but I’ve been trying my hand at it for a few months now… and there are some advantages. We’ll see how it pans out. In other news: – The SPARC Commission website (constructed on a WordPress platform) was launched a couple of weeks ago. Check it out. – Chronos recently wrote me to recommend this awesome financial blog: Baseline Scenario. – Oyster points out that the New Orleans population is now estimated at 311,000, which,…

  • Back From DC

    A few observations (I hadn’t been there in 13 years): – I know some people weren’t happy about all the new memorials and museums they’ve constructed around the National Mall, but I think they are all appropriate, conforming, and, well, awesome. – The new Visitors Center at the Capitol is incredible. I only had one free day (the other day was spent in a seminar, on my own time and my own dime, by the way), and I thought we’d have time to hit up both the Capitol and the Smithsonian. But by the time we were finished with the…