This week, we say goodbye to the shortest month of the year — the necessary Black History Month.
The month receives much grief, most notably from Morgan Freeman, who said in a 2005 interview that...
When a movie starring The Rock starts looking like a documentary, you know we’re beyond the pale.
The People’s Champion’s new movie, “Snitch,” released this weekend, has the...
Scientists have conducted some pretty wacky experiments in the pursuit of knowledge — and sometimes fun. For example, Louis Joylon West once gave an elephant 3,000 times the human dosage of LSD.
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I woke up at 5:30 in the morning on Oct. 22, 2011, with the express purpose of driving to the Baton Rouge Fire Department Station on Brightside Drive to cast a defiant ballot against Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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You hate Nick Saban.
If you don’t, you’re in the minority on this campus.
As you all know, Nick Saban left LSU to coach the Miami Dolphins and, eventually, the Alabama Crimson Tide.
You...
The recent Carnival Cruise Lines engine fire that left 4,200 passengers and crew members drifting in the Gulf spurred me to a realization: I never, ever want to set foot on a cruise ship.
I’ve...
Money — sweet, beautiful, hunger-staving, rub-it-all-over-my-body money.
Obama promised to raise minimum wage to $9.50 by 2011, and although it’s a too little too late, it looks like...
Welcome to America, where we’ll take anything to get high.
From heroin and crack cocaine to PCP and crystal meth — if it’s made in a bathtub, it’s gotta be good.
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I’m no hunter, nor much of a fisherman, but it didn’t take long for me to figure out how central those activities are to Louisiana’s identity.
You don’t put something on your...
Earlier this month, New Iberia native Pierre C. Shadeaux, the Cajun Groundhog, did see his shadow, thus forecasting a rapid return of summer.
And though our indecisive weather has not quite warmed to...
Gone are the days of walking across the stage with a law degree and crossing over into the corporate world with certainty that a six-figure job will be waiting for you.
That’s right, one of America’s...
Kids are great at a lot of things, like being naive, innocent and murdering entire villages full of people.
It has been a while since we’ve talked about Joseph Kony and his child army and understandably...
