“I’ve already been through something very similar.” That’s apparently what New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said during last night’s mayoral debate, after he was asked how he would prepare for a Category 4 storm.

From LonelyPlanet.com’s description of Ndjamena, the capital of the African nation Chad (emphasis mine): The Chadian capital’s very good reputation before the civil war is slowly returning. Though expensive, Ndjamena has friendly people, great markets, interesting artisan goods and a…

Ulica Jozefa in the Kazimierz district of Krakow, Poland. For 500 years, Kazimierz was home to a large and thriving Jewish community. Within four years of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, however, the 60,000 Jews who lived in Kazimierz were murdered.…

I’m not gonna spend my vacation blogging, but since I’m already sitting here at an Internet cafe on the Rynek Glowny in Krakow, Poland, what the heck! Here’s a photo of my second favorite sign in Poland. My favorite sign,…

Dear Republicans Who Believe In Small Government Or That Government Should Get Off Our Backs Or That Government Shouldn’t Be A Nanny, etc.: According to the AJC, last Friday night a woman named Denise Grier was pulled over in Dekalb…

UPDATE: Thank you again to all of the people who have offered help. We (meaning me, my girlfriend several other neighbors) have been able to collect a good amount on clothing, household goods and money to help our friends get…

The current war has been as lethal to Iraqi civilians as the Second World War was to American soldiers. Really? Yeah, really. Read my latest column here.

The other day I said to myself, “Andy, I bet you’d enjoy hearing some German comedy records made between 1904-1909.” I was right, so I sent myself this link.

From Saturday’s New York Times: Corrections Published: March 18, 2006 For the Record A brief art review in Weekend on March 3 about photographs by Anthony Lepore at the Marvelli Gallery in Chelsea described one work incorrectly. It shows a…

Earlier today while reading the paper in a coffee shop, a woman walked up to me, squeezed my hand, and said smiling, “I didn’t recognize you without your glasses on.” I don’t wear glasses. I’d never met the woman before…