The Rising Tide Conference was the best crash course for a new resident on the current politics in New Orleans, which deserves its own show. Excellent panels included new chief of police Ronal Serpas, human rights reporter Mac McClelland, and Gambit Weekly owner Clancy DuBos. Now the first seven pages of my happy cloud journal include quotes like you lie you die, rate of murders cleared (solved) going down since 1960, when radio system crashed 1500 police went in own direction, why do cops keep scary blue siren lights on while patrolling neighborhoods, Coast Guard disseminated BP’s numbers and weren’t even fact-checking that shit, you are the first line of defense against misinformation, I blame my former boss Governor Jindal on an anti-science approach, experts on the Mississippi Delta were/are not being tapped, there are two types of levees: levees that have failed and levees that are going to fail, we have a lot to learn from the Dutch, it is extremely uncommon for women to hang themselves, everyone is grossed out by David Vitter and yet he’ll probably win because he has an (R) behind his name, Joseph Cao has integrity, Bobby Jindal is a douchebag.