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Why I Will Vote For Representative John Bel Edwards (After He Clarified His Position On The War On Drugs)
Yesterday, I published an essay titled, “Why I Can’t Vote For John Bel Edwards (Unless He Changes His Position On The War On Drugs).” Representative Edwards, for those of you who may not know, is a two-term Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and, thus far, the only Democratic candidate in next year’s gubernatorial elections. As I mentioned yesterday, I was troubled by a pre-filed piece of legislation that was co-authored by Representative Edwards, House Bill 103 (or HB 103). HB 103, which is also co-authored by Republican Representative Franklin Foil, as I explained in my previous post, purports…
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Bobby Jindal Definitively Proves That Bobby Jindal Is A Liar
Way back in 2008, Politico columnist and part-time Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed the controversial Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) into law. For those who may be unfamiliar, the LSEA allows public school science teachers the ability to lie to students about science. It’s an insidious, absurd, and likely unconstitutional law that undermines the integrity of Louisiana public education in order to advance and legitimize Christian dominionism. It was written by a creationist “think tank” based out of Seattle. And it was enacted, perhaps ironically, by Bobby Jindal, a Rhodes Scholar with a degree in Biology from an Ivy League school.…
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A Meditation On Origins
I sat in the backseat of my grandfather’s brand-new Lincoln Town Car. At that time, it was, easily, the nicest car I’d ever ridden in: The unlikely marriage of plush and steel, a cream-colored body, seats I sank into like down pillows, and of course, the highlight of the car, the moonroof. It seemed, almost, like a limousine to me I was ten-years-old, and my grandfather was driving, with my grandmother in the passenger seat, back from dinner, at a place called Tunk’s, a wooden compound of a restaurant built atop a peninsula over Kincaid Lake. If it weren’t in…
CenLamar | Est. 2006
