CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Yay! I just bought my first tank of $4/gal Gas! :)

    OK, so it was actually $4.09 but still. I visited the ‘cheap’ gas station here in downtown New Orleans. And to be fair to the owner, I did buy 89 octane. The 87 was $3.99 but when you play the percentages of overall cost per gallon the added 10 cents for better performance seemed like a steal. Actually higher octane gas in general is much more of a value now than it has been in previous years. Compare say 8 years ago when regular gas was around $1.29 per gallon. With 89 being 1.39 and 93 being 1.49 — that…

  • A Personal Essay on Alexandria (Part 4a of 4)

    When I first started blogging, I had little concept of the implications and repercussions of the enterprise, which is one of the reasons I have struggled to cement this blog’s mission statement. I write about the things of which I am most passionate, and while this often means I am obsessing over political news, I sometimes have a tendency to write about the banal occurrences of everyday life. But before I get into blog theory, if you will, I would like to apologize. I apologize for sometimes taking seriously the opinions and statements of the disconnected, anonymous, and lunatic fringe.…

  • Erick Erickson’s Ridiculous Comments About Barack Obama (And Other Observations)

    Earlier tonight, Erick Erickson of RedState.com- the guy who apparently organized a “blogger’s” meeting with our Governor a couple of months ago– was invited to appear on national television and discuss Hillary Clinton’s reference to Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination in June of 1968. If, for some reason, you haven’t heard of this yet, this is what she said to a South Dakota newspaper’s editorial board: “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June,” Clinton told the newspaper Friday. “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in…