Deconstructing Frank Luntz

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Sunday January 13, 2013 · 6:12 AM PST

2013/01/13 · 06:12

Pollsters and image-consultants like Frank Luntz are the best and most interesting Monday-morning quarterbacks. Luntz's latest advice to Republicans, published in Friday's Washington Post, encourages them to return to the "kinder, gentler" language of St. Ronald of California, while still hitting Dems hard on their philosophy.

Is this a winning formula for the GOP? Let's break it down after the squiggly.

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Sunday December 30, 2012 · 11:59 AM PST

2012/12/30 · 11:59

There are a lot of good appetizers in the NOLA.com recipe database, but many of them are true starter dishes. For Christmas dinner, I needed some true hors d'oeuvres-"finger food"-for folks to pick on as we all arrived for dinner. i came across what looked like a tasty shrimp recipe from the Pelican Club.

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Monday November 19, 2012 · 8:31 AM PST

2012/11/19 · 08:31

Naiome Harris is hot as "Eve" in "SkyFall"

The latest 007 movie, SkyFall, starring Daniel Craig as James Bond and Dame Judi Dench as "M," is an awesome contribution to the Bond franchise. It's also following a couple of interesting Science Fiction trends that have "gone mainstream." Say "Cyberpunk" or "Steampunk" to folks who don't regularly read SF/F, and you'll likely get a blank stare. But they're all over the place, and are very prominent in Skyfall.

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Monday September 10, 2012 · 5:02 PM PDT

2012/09/10 · 17:02

New Orleans Railway and Light #605, on the West End Belt Line, October 8, 1921. This is the first in a series of about ten photos of 605 heading down (riverbound) on Esplanade Avenue. The notations indicate that the photos are from Charles Franck Studios. Franck was the photographer on retainer for a number of law firms in downtown New Orleans. The notes on the photographs indicate that this run was made so the photographer could shoot the streetcar as it passed trees along the line as it approached St. Claude Avenue.

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Friday September 07, 2012 · 8:49 AM PDT

2012/09/07 · 08:49

GO! NOW!

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Thursday June 28, 2012 · 3:12 PM PDT

2012/06/28 · 15:12

Turkey cutlets are great for a light dinner, but turkey alone can be a bit boring--it needs a kick!

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Wednesday June 27, 2012 · 10:36 AM PDT

2012/06/27 · 10:36

We celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary a few weeks back, with an overnight stay at The Roosevelt Hotel and dinner at Domenica, the hotel's restaurant. Domenica, a John Besh restaurant run by Chef Alon Shaya, is an edgy Italian pizza/pasta place that serves some very creative food.

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Tuesday June 26, 2012 · 5:24 AM PDT

2012/06/26 · 05:24

"Girl" Lego sets, in a shop window, Zwolle, Netherlands. I'm all for this. These less-boyish sets are excellent gateway drugs to full-blown Lego addiction, something that should be encouraged in both sexes. What's important is that, when buying Lego sets like these, that you supplement your child's path to addiction with a set of "standard" pieces. Some kids (like my firstborn) will build sets and play with them as-is. Others (like his kid brother) will want to use the set as a jumping-off point for their own imagination. Give them the materials to grow by enhancing the sets with bucket of "regular" pieces. Also, carry this a step further by buying a child of either sex whatever sets they want. Hopefully for the serious geek-parent's sake, they'll get into Star Wars so you can buy that Millenium Falcon kit you've always dreamed about. :-)

Monday Streetcar Blogging - Loyola Avenue in New Orleans

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Monday June 04, 2012 · 8:03 AM PDT

2012/06/04 · 08:03

Hey, if I'm gonna come back after a long hiatus, you know I'm going to kick off with a streetcar post. :-)

The Loyola spur of the Canal Street Line (part of POTUS' economic stimulus package) is plodding forward:

Looking up Loyola Avenue, from Tulane to Poydras. You can see the street has been ripped up. and the work crews are making progress laying down the new roadbed and tracks. Then the street will be put back together. Notice the water puddling up in the foreground. This is one of the regular headaches of road work in New Orleans.

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Friday April 01, 2011 · 7:02 AM PDT

2011/04/01 · 07:02

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

1-April-2011

NEW RESTAURANT OPENING TODAY IN NEW ORLEANS - LONG'S AT THE LIBRARY
CONTACT:
info@fouronegroup.net

NEW ORLEANS-The Four-One Group, who have developed such exciting restaurant concepts as Bonnie's at the Spillway, Clinton's Combat Cafe', Back of the Net, and the Hornet's Nest, have announced their new project, Long's at the Library.

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Thursday March 31, 2011 · 6:38 PM PDT

2011/03/31 · 18:38

Today's Tarot is a bit different because I'm refreshing myself from Kraig's Modern Magick book. In introducing Tarot, Kraig tells the student to use only the Major Arcana (a subset of those, actually). I bought a relatively new Golden Dawn deck, the Initiatory Tarot of the Golden Dawn, from Lo Scarabeo, and I'm using that for work from Kraig's book.

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Wednesday March 30, 2011 · 8:03 AM PDT

2011/03/30 · 08:03

Many firmly believe that religion and politics are a bad combination. It's never stopped the Moral Majority, or its later incarnation, the Christian Coalition. It's never stopped countless numbers of conservative pastors across the US, either. Many on the left, however, have always been reluctant to mix these two. Still, it's inevitable that politics will come up at a "pagan night out" or some other sort of social gathering. With the story of a TSA employee getting fired because she's Wiccan, earth-based religions return to the political limelight.

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