Bubba The Asst. Manager

  Long, long ago, back when all this was bayou and marsh, and pirogues passed for speedboats, the government men built a bridge over the Calcasieu from one end to the other and then, immediately, shut it down for repairs. It became a kind of demonstration project for bridge work, a place where contractors and engineers and transportation planners gathered each morning in hard hats, coffee cups in

Everybody thinks the Denver Broncos gave Peyton Manning $95,000,000 for five years of work, as if playing quarterback in the NFL is actual work.  Not that it isn’t hard but, compared to you and me, it isn’t work.

War!  No one I know likes war.  But, as we used to say in the Marines, somebody needs to know how to fight wars. Rather than debate the issues of whether or not we should have been in any war … say Iraq or Nam, my issue is that once the president, the Congress or my uncle Elmon decides we’re  going in, then all bets are off!

The I-10 bridge is under construction -- but are we doing more damage to an already terrifying structure?