My local community became national news this week as CNN picked up the local beaver must die story~ and if you do not already know the beaver family has been given a reprieve. Just in time for Christmas. They can continue their beaver doings, though as I write this we do not know if it [...]

Courtesy of CREW, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington has released their year end report. They note at the top of the page that despite the Democrat’s election vow to institute more checks and balances on Congressional ethics, not a damn thing has changed in that regard. No new enforcement regulations were put [...]

Your Demon had the great fortune to live in New Orleans for several years pre-hurricane, so the way that a great & wholly unique American city was allowed to disintegrate right before our very eyes is a continuing outrage, & a personal one, to me. It was, to me, a magic place, a [...]

A flag is many things to many people. In the aftermath of Katrina this blanket of the American flag is her comfort. Little did she know that help wasn’t on the way. An old woman now…probably worked hard all of her life as someone’s maid or housekeeper. She had old age to look forward to [...]

I sort of paraphrased the title of this article in the NYT this morning. I have family of a sort that lives there, my son’s best friend Fernie and his wife and young baby. Their house survived the floods and for over a year was used as a Urgent Care Facility of sorts by the [...]