Today is the third anniversary of Barataria. I have written at least three times a week, MWF, without a single miss, and with a few extras have over 500 posts. This is as good of a time as any to stop and mark what we’ve accomplished over the last year and answer the eternal question: What is this blog about? Please allow me a little indulgence as I look back at the last few years to find some coherence.
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Elián
One month before Christmas at the dawn of the millennium, a child came to us. Having come from an atheistic nation, his baptism probably came in the salt water on that day when his mother gave her life trying to raise her son in a free land. That child was Elián González, and ten years ago this week he was returned to live with his father in Cuba. It seems so simple at a glance. The convolutions of his story may not make any sense to most people, but that winds up being the point of it after all.
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Journalism, Past and Future
Journalism isn’t broken, but the way this public art pays has fallen down almost completely. Given that a free people need good information to make good individual decisions this struggle is now something at the core of where a lot of things are going in the future.
Big Issues, Smaller Words
Less than a week after the passage of a landmark health care bill into law, the pundits appear to be sure of one thing: this will be used heavily by republicans in the November elections. The most interesting thing about this prognostication isn’t how universal it is, but how very likely it is completely wrong.
Sweaty and Tired
As political sports, the passage of a Health Care bill was something we haven’t seen in a long time. All day there were updates on the radio relaying the status of the debate and what the latest deals were in Washingtoon. It came down to a pair of speeches in the well between Bonoir and Pelosi, with shouts and applause breaking and highlighting their pace like the UK House of Commons. Then, there was the vote.
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