"Ain't I a woman?" is Sojourner Truth's most recognized speech. She delivered it at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. There has been some dispute about what she said at the convention. According to Frances D. Gage, who published the speech in 1863, Truth encountered hissing and hostility as she began to…
Didja ever actually listen to the lyrics of the All in the Family theme song? "Those Were The Days" by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse Boy, the way Glenn Miller played. Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days. Didn't need no welfare state. Everybody pulled…
Once upon a time, media folks talked about convergence of media -- and what they meant was TV, newspaper and online working together to produce one portal for local news. We're now seeing a second convergence -- this time it's interactive media converging -- social networking (facebook) with self-publishing (blogs) and personal video (YouTube) with…
Unfortunately, Baton Rouge wasn't ready for my friend, Andy Kopplin. I sincerely hope he'll run for elected office again. "If I understood you well, you are saying: until next time. " - René Lévesque
No - it wasn't me that passed away over the weekend. The girl who died was Kendall Stafford - yes, she was my age. Yes, I knew her (in middle school). I appreciate everyone's concern, emails and phone calls. (as do my mother, father and husband).
See Hazel and Quinn walk the "red carpet" at the Dog-U-Tante Ball put on this weekend by Spay Baton Rouge. [googlevideo= That's Steve saying "Go Hazel! Go Hazel! Go Hazel! Go Hazel! Go Hazel!" in the background. And they have photos for purchase: Thank you for attending the Spay Baton Rouge Dog-U-Tante Ball last weekend.…
1. ontology - (computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relations organization, arrangement, organisation, system - an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the…
Lafayette looks to the state Capitol for a model on how to run a more progressive parks and recreation department.
I’m a little bit of a zealot right now about our upcoming election for Louisiana's 6th District Congressional seat. Since Richard Baker's resignation, Jindal set democratic and republican primaries for March 8th. There will probably be a 2nd closed party primary (runoff) on April 5th. Then, a general election between the Democratic and Republican candidates…