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What City Has Given The World More In Terms Of American Culture Than New Orleans? There Is None. Not New York. Not L.a. Not Chicago. Not Anywhere, In The Sense That African American Music Has Gone Around The World Twenty Times Over, And It's Continuing To Evolve. It Is Our Greatest Cultural Export.

For A Detective Or Street Police, The Only Real Satisfaction Is The Work Itself; When A Cop Spends More And More Time Getting Aggravated With The Details, He's Finished. The Attitude Of Co-workers, The Indifference Of Superiors, The Poor Quality Of The Equipment - All Of It Pales If You Still Love The Job; All Of It Matters If You Don't.

The Why Is What Makes Journalism An Adult Game. The Why Is What Makes Policy Coherent And Useful. The Why Is What Transforms Bureaucrats And Foot Soldiers And Political Leaders Into Viable Instruments Of Rational And Affirmative Change. The Why Is Everything And Without It, The Very Suggestion Of Human Progress Becomes A Cosmic Joke.

The Best I Can Hope For Is That I Might Provoke A Water Cooler Argument Between You And Somebody Else. But It Is Not Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Rigor Of Journalism. It Doesn't Have The Proof Positive That Facts Provide. So It Can Be Readily Dismissed As Mere Propaganda. But I Can Certainly Reach More People.

There Were A Lot Of Video Store Owners And Managers Out Of Work, Once Pornography Became More About Streaming And Downloads. But The Other Thing Is That There Are A Lot Of People Who Make Money By Finding A Place To Stand And Add Almost Nothing. It's Particularly Ironic If Your Job Title Is Pimp. On Some Level, In A Healthier World Where Sex Work Could Be Rationalized And The Risk Reduced, Your Whole Job Title Would Be Extraneous Anyway. It's Not Exactly A Point Of Great Grievance If You're A Pimp That Suddenly Your Prostitutes Don't Require The Same Level Of Reliance.