President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on Monday as that state and others along the Gulf Coast prepared for Tropical Storm Isaac.

The White House said Obama informed Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal of the emergency declaration in a phone call.

‘Where can I put it?’ can be a big question in a small living space like a dorm room. This year, due to a record number of incoming freshman, the question becomes ‘Where can we put them?’

What has Michael Moore and digital technology wrought?

Now anyone with a political agenda and low-cost digital camera can make a movie and call it a documentary. Even enterprises that at best are vanity projects and at worst badly disguised and overly long attack ads are taken seriously by audiences— and box-office observers.

When Creedence Clearwater Revival called it quits in 1972, that looked like the end for the rock band that gave us “Proud Mary,” “Bad Moon Rising,” “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?” and “Susie Q.” And if lead singer-songwriter John Fogerty had his way, the end might have been more permanent.