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There may be things more important than the Super Bowl.

On the other hand…waiting for, watching and celebrating The Game in the French Quarter.

Yes, I know. It’s sacrilege.

But the Question of the Age - for New Orleans at least - is this:

Is the perpetuation of the inept and corrupt criminal enterprise known as the US Army Corps of Engineers more important than the physical survival of New Orleans?

The issue really is that stark.

I’ve never been prouder to stand by someone: Dr. Ivor Van Heerden.

Van Heerden continues, at great personal expense, to insist that the Corps (and their enablers at LSU) tell the truth about why New Orleans flooded in 2005.

For the full story: Ivor Van Heerden, the Corps, and LSU

Note: If you question my categorization of the Corps as a criminal enterprise, they crossed that line when they applied pressure on LSU to censor and ultimately fire Professor Van Heerden for telling the scientific and engineering truth about the New Orleans levee failures.

The real reason behind Chuck Perkins and Ken McCarthy’s trip to Manchester, UK this past fall?

The two wanted to learn first hand what it’s like to have a championship football team to help prepare New Orleaneans for the shock.

All kidding aside, the epic rallying of Manchester United, once a less-than-stellar team (hard to believe), has had a definite positive impact on the psyche of Manchester over the years and has clearly been an important part of its rebuilding process.

Yet another link between these two great cities.

Earl Barth, a sixth generation master of the plastering art, has passed away.

Mr. Barth is representative of one of the little know aspects of New Orleans art and creativity.

Known for its music and food, New Orleans was and remains one of the bastions of high level craftsmanship in the building trades. New Orleans craftsmen were in demand around the country and their work can be seen in places as far flung as Chicago and Washington DC.

In 2008, scholars and music lovers gathered at the Sound Cafe in New Orleans for to hear some of these men talk about their dual lives and craftsmen and musicians - and to hear them play.

Here’s some video from the event:

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