February 2011
48 posts
January 2011
50 posts
“I haven’t had a po-boy since they burned, I didn’t want to disrespect Sam,” said neighborhood resident Bud Moore referencing Verti Marte manager Sam Hatfield.”
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Verti Marte reopening has French Quarter locals waiting in line | NOLA.com (via brianoberkirch)
Pableaux (aka @pableauxNO) texted me this weekend to remind me that Verti Marte would be re-opening soon. Strutter introduced me to VM back in 2007 (?), I took my wife there for the first time the year following, and I probably ate there three times per visit to New Orleans since. Last visit wasn’t the best (there was a 3 am po-boy run that involved helping a kid inside the shop who had been assaulted a couple blocks away), and then there was the fire… I’m delighted that they are re-opening.
“The Overton window, in political theory, describes a “window” in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on a particular issue.”
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Overton window - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heard about this in reference to the eventual pressure on Justice Kennedy to rule against the constitutionality of Health Care Reform - the more lower court decisions against (a la today’s Florida ruling) the wider the Overton window for his potential swing vote. Apparently, overwhelmingly liberal Commerce Clause jurisprudence doesn’t matter for much these days.
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Egypt Blocking Al Jazeera Broadcasts to Much of Middle East →
fastcompany.com
tedr:
Via: Fast Company
BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER
aka: Negev Rock City >
The Egyptian government isn’t just attempting to censor Al Jazeera within Egypt itself. The news station was just kicked off one of the Middle East’s main satellite providers—which happens to be based in Egypt.
The Egyptian government shut down Al Jazeera’s Cairo offices, withdrew the accreditation of their reporters and forced the network off an Egyptian-owned satellite that supplies television to much of the Middle East.
Al Jazeera’s signal on Nilesat was disrupted on order of government authorities. Nilesat has more than 10 million viewers throughout the Middle East, with the primary subscriber base residing in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Mubarak’s information war is is exceeding Egypt’s sovereignty
This, more so than Al-Ikhwān’s (rather pathetic) agitation in Jordan and The Kingdom, has the potential to worsen the situation quickly. The Arab Street will no more allow Mubarak to remove a vital resource of information for the region than the Israelis will allow a radicalized Egypt to emerge from the current crisis.
None of this ends well.
The New Arab World Order - By Robert D. Kaplan | Foreign Policy →
foreignpolicy.com
“Don’t mistake the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt for 1978 Iran. But that doesn’t mean that U.S. diplomacy in the Arab world is going to be any less complicated going forward.”
“MDPV has no history of FDA approved medical use.[3] Reportedly, it has four times the potency of methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta).”
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Methylenedioxypyrovalerone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
People are calling this “the new meth.” Like we’ve figured out how to handle the crisis of the old meth.
SUSANNAH BRESLIN: Hire me →
susannahbreslin.blogspot.com
Seriously, amazingly talented. Someone should hire her immediately.
