The ‘Big Uneasy’ — Harry Shearer’s Film About New Orleans and Katrina
Shearer employed shoe-leather video journalism, mixed with sleek computer graphics and cameos, to convey the city's vulnerability to the erosion of coastal wetlands, once a buffer to hurricanes. Permalink | Email this | Linking...
Richard Scruggs: A Big-Time Lawyer’s Fall From Grace
Filed under: Crime, CultureIn his new book, journalist Curtis Wilkie tells the story of Richard Scruggs, who was at the top of his profession until he pleaded guilty in a bribery scheme. Permalink | Email this | Linking Bl...
BP Storm: Tulane Prof Oliver Houck Warned for Decades of Peril of Lax Energy Regulation
Filed under: Environment, Energy, Oil SpillHouck, an environmental law professor, says that as bad as the BP spill is, it doesn't compared to what the oil and gas industry was allowed to do to the region's coast and wetlands. Permalink | ...
Sorrow and Joy at a Funeral Fit for a Brass Band King
Music is the balm for heartache in Louisiana, and Richard "King" Matthews helped supply plenty of it over the years. This past weekend, it was his time to receive.
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Filed under: Religion, Pope Benedict XVIVatican’s Point Man on Abuse Was Sucessfully Sued by Whistleblowing Priest
With Pope Benedict XVI in a stance of passive silence on the clergy sex abuse crisis, the Vatican strategy of attacking the news media has made the pope more vulnerable to criticism. Loyal Catholics, and even political leaders inclined to...
What Pope Benedict Must Do
Pope Benedict faces an epic scandal as victims of clerical sex abuse in Ireland, Western Europe and America raise the issue of justice denied by secret tribunals that allowed predators to remain priests. Yet an editorial in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, scored the media for "an ignoble attempt...Follow seriouslypolitics on Twitter!
