The Student Vote Is Surging. So Are Efforts to Suppress It. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/voting-college-suppression.html

See this guy and another hawk around the neighborhood.  Walked right past him, just a few feet away.  Got a good pic of him up close and then flying off.

Found this little guy in the garage.  Probably a rattlesnake.

Better late than never.  I suggest Roberts Circle, after the great New Orleanian Nash Roberts.  We aren’t out of the woods yet.

Oysters, French Quarter.

City Park sculpture garden and Lake Pontchartrain.

Might be time to add Category 6 and 7 Hurricanes to the Saffir-Simpson Scale.  From Scientific American:

Hurricane Dorian Was Worthy of a Category 6 Rating

The Category-1-to-5 Saffir-Simpson scale for rating hurricanes is inadequate

From the Collaborative Fund blog:

Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Shaping the World

This blog is my attempt to separate myself from the abuses of modern commercial Social Media.  Many people seem to take a “cold turkey” approach and ditch all social media all together.  These people seem to see it as a personal addiction problem.  For me it was just a bit  ofa time waster with a big downside (privacy).  A good article by someone who was a bit more involved, but makes some good points.

Well, Freeport McMoRan is admitting damage done to south Louisiana coastline from decades of breaking state laws in their oil drilling operations.  The penalty? $100 million over several years.  Wow.  Pretty light for land loss of about 2,000 square miles (about the size of Delaware).  To say nothing of the pollution, record cancer rates and poverty, in spite of the vast amount of oil and gas removed from the site.   I have always said Louisiana isn’t a state, it is a co!ony.  Again, $100 million.  Sounds like a lot but I bet the houses of the top 5 or so Freeport execs are worth more than that.  An outrage on top of an outrage.

In first for energy industry, Freeport-McMoRan to settle Louisiana lawsuits aimed at restoring coast