In the second installment of the author's story of two childhood girlfriends we hear from Betty's prodigious son Buick Roadmaster, who begins to inhabit the voices of the Lost Generation in Paris. (Read the first chapter)
As Betty Daniels and Matty Sue Franklin grew older, the childhood friends braved each their own hardships and tribulations. The first part of Jim Gabour's fictional offering tells about the pains and joys of life's unexpected occurrences
As our author - clad in detritus - prepares himself for tomorrow's Mardis Gras and the forecast of huge lightning storms, he remembers striking a blow against a less than divine intervention predicting the Carnival's demise.
Following the Sandy Hook shooting, our Sunday Comics author remembers how his family were the victims of random gun violence and calls for the guns, the NRA lobbyists and the politicans who listen to them to go
The author takes us into the heart of a vivid and authentic-looking antebellum scene that may be coming to your screens soon
Our New Orleans columnist, queuing at the voting booth, opens himself up to taking the full measure of the moral and political bluster around him
As the Republican National Convention struggles to make Todd Akin disappear, the Vatican is trying do the same to the "radical feminist" nuns of America.
After what should have been a trip to the vet turns into a trip to the doctor, Jim Gabour ponders a strange concatenation of human and feline ailments, and describes the succession of stray cats who have called his home their own.
In which our author feels good about being ancient and avoiding the municipal vultures making plunder out of public office
Jim Gabour takes a plunge into the murky world of America's firearms industry, and recalls one childhood misadventure that has shaped his view of the gun control debate.
As the financial sector queues to attend Mitt Romney's presidential fundraiser, the misery on the merry-go-round of the banks continues
Our author wonders whether he'll be punished for his 4th of July gustatory transgression
