CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Get Well Soon, Teddy Kennedy

    I’m in Dallas for my sister’s graduation, and the only cable news channel at the hotel here is Fox. Less than an hour after the story broke, Fox correspondents were referring to Senator Kennedy in the past tense, discussing his weight, and digging up Chappaquiddick.  Kennedy is a giant in American history and given the nature of this story (and the fact that, at the time, Fox had absolutely no idea what was going on), I’d hope they would confer a little more respect. Certainly, he deserves it.  My late father always liked telling a story about bumping into the…

  • Not So Fast, WeSawThat…

    I’ve never met the blogger who refers to himself as WeSawThat (yes, news alert, it’s actually HeSawThat), but I do know his name. And during the past couple of years, we’ve shared various observations with one another via e-mail. He sends me blog traffic every single day, and I send him traffic every day as well. Sometimes, his blog is highly entertaining, and sometimes, it is incredibly (almost hyperbolically) offensive. I understand he thinks that he has developed a persona. I don’t like to get involved with blog wars, but his latest rant about the Tulane Legislative Scholarship is beyond…

  • Backfired

    Despite the Republican Party’s best efforts, including the recruitment of Dick Cheney (who apparently spoke to a noticeably underwhelming crowd at a small convention center in Northern Mississippi), Democrat Travis Childers beat Republican Greg Davis in yet another race the Republicans were supposed to win. Anyone notice a pattern? From The New York Times: “[T[he Republican strategy of trying to link Mr. Childers to more liberal national Democratic figures fell short, as it did in Louisiana. Indeed, voters here were bombarded by advertisements equating Mr. Childers with Senator Barack Obama, a tactic intended to turn conservative whites away from Mr.…