- Louisiana education department shielding voucher records
- New Orleans TE Jimmy Graham injures himself during Wednesday's practice
I hate fake football season. - Economists to Romney campaign: That’s not what our research says
I guess it's no big surprise that candidates make up shit all the time. But sometimes it's fun to see precisely how they're doing that. In this article Ezra Klein contacts the economists cited by a Mitt campaign policy paper and asks them about its assertions. They all say Mitt is misrepresenting their research. This, by the way, is precisely the sort of thing all political reporters should be doing. But gets drowned out by a sea of much easier stories which simply parrot the candidate's claims qualified only by a "Romeny campaign says.." - Public Transit Tuesdays: Lake Forest
Quote of the Day:"Now you know why dem two St. Claudes passed, huh?"
"No...why?"
"Because all dem white people movin' out there!"
"Ohhh. Mmmm hmmm."
"Yeah! And that's all the time! Wasn't like that before all the white people moved over in the 9th Ward after Katrina."
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Busy day. Here are some links
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That city planner terrorized me for a summer. 20 years is too little
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