Library Chronicles

The Times-Picayune is a freaking tabloid

Nagin says the "list that counts" is no longer the "list that counts" About halfway through we get this: Zurik: Have you...

You'd think this report would include the cost of the contract . In keeping with the "recovery" strategy of the past three yea...

If you haven't done so yet, please take time to check out all of the excellent work being done by G-Bitch , Oyster , Eli , and Dangerblo...

PBJ appoints major campaign contributor to head LRA

Guess they're still waiting for a Morial connection.

Stacey Jackson is getting nailed ... but Nagin has been too useful an idiot to the current Federal administration. Their ( highly politiciz...

This morning I was all set to write something blasting Stacy Head as, "the Peggy Wilson of her generation" since she is the counci...

Houston doctors say they may have found a way to destroy HIV

In the wake of last week's catastrophic oil spill on the Mississippi River, gas prices in New Orleans have declined steadily . I'm ...

Oyster gets a little too into the established idiom in this guest post at Rude Pundit. The result is a masterful distillation of Louisiana...

In the NOAH post title pun sweepstakes

It's tragic since I have no other possible way to communicate with Dangerblond.

I hate to say it but I seriously doubt that Fred Radtke is doing this . We know he's got boundary issues with regard to whose property ...

The NOAH story has officially made the crossing from the ridiculous to the sublime. That crossing being a bridge made of "environmenta...

Such as why John Edwards was the most NOLA-friendly Dem candidate this go-round .

Les Miles is an unsportsmanlike cocky asshole of Spurrieresque proportions

Now that there will be no DisneyJazz Park ... and the talk is that City Hall is moving out of Duncan Plaza anyway ... Loyola and Perdido can...

That's about the only way I can think to describe this.

National Affairs Edition

They give your newspaper that extra-pasty consistency necessary for stuffing floodwalls.

That was an early version of a nickname for John McCain I floated. Eventually I decided to go more often with Cranky Old Man on account of t...

We're two days into this oil spill on the river thing and not one of us thought to post one of these. Actually something tells me this ...

Please explain this to me. I fucking dare you to explain this shit to me . (first event on the list)

Woodchuck Cider. Red label Amber. Mmmmmm. Previously on "Beer in the Bookdrop"

Update: This update exists ostensibly to link once again to WCBF where E promises a post-Council meeting clearinghouse for scuttlebutt. B...

Following all the NOAH stuff has drawn most of my attention over the past couple of days. (The latest post at WCBF is particularly fun, bt...

WWLTV: BREAKING NEWS: Sen. John McCain has cancelled his trip to New Orleans this evening, according to Gov. Jindal's press secretary.

Taibbi: The Obama camp, playing with a big halftime lead as the cliché goes, is going to play this one close to the vest, sticking to a stra...

Jimmy Fahrenholtz has been disqualified from the District 2 Congressional race for being a big stupid liar ... or something like that. Actu...

Wait... they were actually planning a Republican Primary ? They must have had trouble managing the crowds. John Neely Kennedy Campaign Kicko...

McCain To Meet With Jindal Maybe they'll talk geography .

And training camp hasn't even opened yet. Update: Karen graciously sends us this can't-miss Deadspin post . Shockey leaves behind...

Channel 4 tonight ( preview here ): 4 investigates at 10: Money doesn't add up for housing program July 21st, 2008 Tonight at 10pm, 4 In...

Something like this .... only add an average daily allowance of three crazies, one wino, and fifty screaming babies.

"If (the team) plays lousy, if it doesn't do very good, then it ought to be called down, and we ought to be the first ones to do it...

A cadre of us unsavory folk managed to sneak into last night's Ringside Politics with a Punch at the Cricket Club just so that we could...

As Karen says , in Naginland, collapsing houses are really just an opportunity for more lying. "Streamlining" the historic review...

I dunno, Maitri . I think what is needed is less not more hero worship. The Dragonslaying mentality is part of what gets us into this mess...

Oh goodie it's another Ozone Action Alert . Everybody prepare to take action according to the following recommendations. The Air Qualit...

What a tease! For a minute there I thought that Ricky was going to go ahead and read the whole Details profile of Gov. PBJ for me but it ...

Our recent post comparing news articles from Jan Moller and Clancy Dubos has spawned a tangential language dispute in the comments section. ...

In the comment thread to an earlier post , Daisy the professional librarian (and most prolific reader I've ever met) writes, "I hat...

Sportswriters, stop it. Stop lighting the questions on fire .

LA-Sen: Updated 2Q Fundraising Totals

Does the State charge its own agencies rent for office space ? Before the LSED can even contemplate the sports and entertainment district, h...

Below, I have reproduced long passages from the text of T-P reporter Jan Moller's 4th grade Social Studies "current events" as...

Kara Nelson is really the most dangerous kind of journalist there is.

Damn. My early 30s were by far the weirdest bit yet. Just unbelievable shit followed by more unbelievable shit. And now it only gets more...

Can someone explain to me the benefits of the "lot next door" program ? Does it merely expedite the process of turning the land b...

The incredible shrinking T-P opinion page. Bringing less and less content to fewer and fewer readers. Update: The T-P, of course, is far f...

Clancy Dubos takes a skeptical look at the rumor that Bill Jefferson will withdraw from the Democratic primary and run for reelection as an...

Since this is the weekend prior to my birthday, I feel obligated to run about the town and act like an idiot in celebration. I suppose I...

I know this will make a lot of people happy but I can't bring myself to get excited. Keep in mind, I am an extreme case who hates any ...

This Salon piece on the only Federal lawsuit left with any chance of holding anyone accountable for violating the 4th Amendment is frighten...

It's the web site that proves if there is a God, all he/she/it does is say "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" all day long.

Your Crappy Democratic Senator hates the U.S. Constitution. For reasons unknown to me I was telephoned last week and invited to attend Your ...

What he actually believes is that the fundamental way in which the system has always operated is "an absolute disgrace" "Amer...

Anyone who volunteers to go around wielding the legal authority to tell people what to do or not do on a day-to-day basis obviously gets off...

It's just sort of where I was at the time . And since that day, I have continued to put little or no thought into everything else that a...

Oh my. Won't these just be the most awesome political ads ever .

BSJD has some interesting comments following yesterday's T-P article on JNE Enterprises. JNE is the company hired by the City to do ...

What Ian said

Governor PBJ's courageous decision to be pressured into deciding something about the CRITICAL issue of legislative pay raises has earned...

Following the journalistic example provided by the Pullitzer-winning Times-Picayune the Yellow Blog will apply that paper's principle t...

Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution Woody Holton (2007) Everything you're looking for this holiday. Constitutional la...

It was "rightsized" into a "Viewpoint" . I think this is my favorite passage from the story Athenae links to . Michaels...

That online Scabble game I was "kicking ass" in.... Yeah Daisy won.

How many times will we have to endure the uncomfortable term "The Itch" in our sports journalism between now and August?

We found this lying around the library the other day. The kids have got jokes. And no I don't think this is the same person who passed ...

Come on, man, not today. If it doesn't come back and you really gotta say something, just email.

Dammned liberal media will never tell us about the freshly painted liquor stores . Today, Saif's family stores are running full tilt aft...

You can help the Gambit readership get everything wrong once again by voting in the annual "Best of New Orleans" poll here. I...

With a cheap and funny joke Nagin said he reimbursed the city after The Times-Picayune reported recently that he used his city credit card t...

At $390,000 you'd almost call it a steal... or you'd say something is being stolen. Update: The story has been picked up by Gambit...

Apparently there are "no shortcuts to quality" stickups. I mean it seems the guy actually stood in line to do this. You guys sho...

Get names of countries wrong... but still be unassailably awesome at foreign policy

That would be one way to describe the so-called "New Democrat" Actually this is a funny article which features Al From unhelpful...

I've always thought Thomas Schaller was kind of an asshole anyway . I'm not even sure that's a real school he's associated ...

N.O. named 'America's Most Sparkling City'

Bingo! blog

Or IIIE. Something is brewing over at WCBF . Go encourage or help the little fella if you can.

The Obama campaign gives me a headache . And no, I don't see this as an example of Obama "moving to the center" on a superfic...

At the end of this post , Schroeder finds the one guy mucking up all of Ed Blakely's "progress."

Now watch all the public outrage and indignant editorials magically disappear. Oyster spent a lot of time talking about the politics of th...

Whatever they say, there really isn't any excuse for this. If you're a city's flagship (or lone) daily, and your Monday opinio...

A Cranky Old Man running for President was briefly interrupted during a speech today by a trio of protesters concerned with the ongoing ex...

Sure sure blame it on the font but we all know the City Council is just as sick of the bullshit as the rest of us.

Not this weekend but... fill this in on your calendar anyway .

This morning on the Gambit blog: Early in the session — very early in the session — several key lawmakers met face-to-face with Jindal to d...

I dunno... what are we doing this weekend?

douche.mook icanhaz.cheezburger wearenot.ok who.dat Get to work on it

But then labor really never has an actual choice in these matters anymore . Like the rest of us, they're expected to fall in line behin...

Come and get it, Fred.

Not sure how to sum up this gem of a post by Oyster . Maybe this quote is a start. I know that flip-flopping on legislative pay raises madde...

And if Hillary takes this opportunity to stab him in the back a bit... as is suggested here ... he deserves what he gets. Of course the clot...

Appalling behavior in which the diplomatic head of state insults people on the whole nation's behalf is now just kind of boring.

Here is your Medievalist State checklist so far Governor rejects science: check Governor performs exorcism: check Governor signs bizarre pur...

Has the all-sports radio station (1280 AM) decided to suddenly switch to all-gospel? Who makes these kinds of decisions? Hilariously, the ne...