Make this stop

Far be it for me to say anything against the ongoing Jindal-bashing party in the mainstream press, the liberal blogosphere, the conservative blogosphere, the streets, townhalls, schoolyards, and volcano monitoring stations of Everytown USA.

But for chrissakes, so-called liberal Americans, equating "post-Katrina aid" with "suck(ing) up most federal dollars" is utter bullshit and I really wish you would "make it stop."

Consumer Alert

The following information is from the "Guidelines for Customization" section of the Jersey store on the NFL Shop website.

Language deemed inappropriate, derogatory, or profane will not be accepted

In other words, if you are attempting to order a New Orleans Saints #00 replica jersey with the name Fuckmook on the back, you are basically shit out of luck.

Also of note from the NFL Shop site:

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Who knew?

Update: Leigh has inspired me to seek graphical representation of the concept.

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The closest thing to adequate words I have I'll reproduce from an email I sent a few minutes ago.

Ashley was a remarkable human being with an awe-inspiring wealth of experience, an amazing sense of humor, and the kind of anger that is only born of a deep deep sense of humanity. I only knew him from the RT community and a few parties I went to. But he was a person I looked forward to conversing with through his internet presence nearly every day for the past few years. I wish there were something I could do or say that could make this any better for his friends and family.

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More from Shelley Midura here

Video of Ash Mo and Oyster here

Oh my goodness

My most sincere sympathies for the family of Dr. Ashley Morris.

Wow.. things happen so fast when actual Americans are involved

House panel OKs $250M for Twin Cities

Related: The other day, Josh Marshall wrote the following about the budding Ted Stevens scandal.

Perhaps it's the old story of political systems built on economies with a heavy reliance on relatively primitive extractive industries -- a pattern that one sees again and again around the world.

As someone who makes his living covering the corruption endemic to the entire system in Washington D.C. Marshall should know better than to engage in this sort of snobbery... but I think it says something about how the proper Americans tend to view their backwards colonies.

Buffoons

N.Y. blast raises questions about aging infrastructure

I blame the backward locals in NYC. Or to borrow a paragraph from Varg:

Well, I’m blaming it on the backwards political process whose responsibility it was to oversee those levees city infrastructure. And that process starts at the voters and moves on up through Washington. They are ALL to blame. And the longer you lived (t)here and did nothing during the years leading up to Katrina this dangerous manifestation of urban decay, the more you are to blame for sitting back and lamenting that “things are never going to change” and not doing a enough to protect your homes from Lake Ponchartrain public from exploding streets.