Parts Unknown

Anthony Bordain remains the man I want to be when I grow up.  He’s a grumpy fellow who gets paid to travel around the world, eat amazing food, and make snarky comments about anything that crosses his mind. I feel like I know Tony and I always enjoy time spend following him around. His latest show is on CNN, an odd choice since they are not known for their great takes on food; but a good one, since they are known for traveling the world. Parts Unknown is pretty much No Reservations. A film crew takes amazing location shots while Anthony…

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Hurricane Katrina-The Best Thing That Ever Happened To New Orleans

What if you lived in a city filled with crime, corruption, and crushing poverty?  What if you had a magic wand that would not only remove the crime and poverty from your city, but leave the city in such a condition that the undesirable elements of your population could never return?  Would you wave that wand? What if the magic wand also made the rest of the world feel sorry for you and send you millions of dollars in donations-and millions more in supplies and free labor?  What if you were one of those poor people who got to live in…

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