My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.
Without an advocate for the poor, without a new state of mind in America, the country lies on the brink of anarchy.