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Author: Mark Moseley

About Mark Moseley
Mark Moseley blogs at Your Right Hand Thief. Until mid 2014, Mark Moseley was The Lens' opinion writer, engagement specialist and coordinator for the Charter Schools Reporting Corps. After Katrina and the Federal Flood he helped create the Rising Tide conference, which grew into an annual social media event dedicated to the future of New Orleans.

Climate change makes local flood defense a real crap shoot

February 18, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Are we still waiting for Superman to corrupt our kids and culture?

February 14, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Student takes role of David to creationist’s legislative Goliath

February 8, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Commenter’s mookery is of Biblical proportion

February 2, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

It’s "The Jungle" out there, but we can feast on fresh local food

January 31, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Shepherd needs to pull up his big-boy britches

January 25, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
In August 2007, after City Councilmember Oliver Thomas resigned and admitted to taking bribes, his attorney was asked about the possibility of Thomas providing helpful testimony to Federal prosecutors. Shepherd ultimately confessed, and assumed total responsibility, but

He blew like a warm summer’s eve, but should we have preserved his home?

January 21, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Bermdoggle: The real barrier that Gov. Jindal will have to overcome

January 19, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019

Comparing Detroit to NOLA after Katrina not so far off

January 13, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
I once mocked a pundit for comparing Detroit to “post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans." I'm rethinking that.

Ohio State gets a Boehner; Arkansas gets the bird

January 4, 2011 Updated November 7, 2019
I love to handicap college football games by carefully analyzing the merits of each team’s mascots, and factoring in ominous current events that might foretoken disaster for a particular football squad.

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