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Well the Saints' season is over. That's a good thing because now we can seriously start talking about getting rid of this gimmicky ...

Surreal is one way to describe it .

This morning on WWL radio Bob and Monica ran down a list of three "significant" buildings in lower Mid-City. On their list were t...

Let's set aside the fact that Obama's newly announced economic team is comprised of Clintonites and co-conspirators in the financial...

Another year of successfully keeping it out there.

The logic of voting for a candidate whose party I intensely dislike escapes me. It's also impractical, even if Cao could somehow pull of...

What I don't like about these stories is that they continue pushing the wrong-headed idea that we'll somehow recover our city by di...

Saints To Maintain Same Season Ticket Price For 2009 Since... you know... Sean Payton really really wanted Poochie on the team and we have n...

It's kind of cool and sunny outside. WWLTV.com responds with a big red Breaking News box.

Yes, I have been critical of this project ... and continue to wonder how long it will last given the current economic environment. Yes, I wi...

Wouldn't want to give teachers a mechanism for fighting against being cheated or anything.

One reason we can't build anything in this town is because we spend so much time hating ourselves and one another. Today's NOLA.com...

The problem is that we are now in year 4 after the flood and all we talk about is demolishing or selling what remains of the affordable hou...

City Council proceedings will now be modeled after the Bill O'Reilly radio program. That should fix everything.

"This is like a half off sale at Nordstrom ... it is still overpriced!"

Despite the fact that the team (and the defense in particular) is poorly managed, staffed, and coached far too many fans will give those res...

He don't need no stinkin' Deuce Technically, McAllister has four years remaining on his contract with the Saints, but the reality is...

Wow what a grandstanding asshole . If he expects his staff to forfeit their dignity to sadistic first-day random drug testing and to be held...

Senator Byron Dorgan just a few minutes ago on C-SPAN: "Economics is not a science. Economics is psychology pumped up with helium....

As a longtime fan of D-BB's trademark blue and haphazardly spelled writing style, I can promise you that is indeed saying something. But...

This afternoon, I was making my way back accross the Quarter from the NOLA Bookfair on Frenchmen street when I happened upon a remarkably l...

Saints could end up owing the Giants a first round pick for Poochie. Remember. Sean Payton really really really wanted Poochie on this team.

Uptown New Orleans on election day (Oct 4 and Nov 4)

Joy and fun

Bush picks a bailout watchdog By Mike Soraghan Posted: 11/14/08 12:27 PM [ET] President Bush has picked a watchdog to monitor the Wall Stree...

If you're following the latest municipal melodrama , you may want to check out Schroeder's quick rundown of the interested parties f...

The other day Clancy Dubos told me over the WWL radio airwaves that whether or not Governor Bobby Jindal actually runs for President in 2012...

As a service to you, kids, I will once again highlight some important bits from a recent edition of Bill Moyers Journal first, as a means o...

It's all there

Nagin is using Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine as a how-to mannual.

Everything in the universe both causes and cures cancer in one way or another.

Faith and Family Night Featuring a postgame concert by Christian rock band New Method. "Who?" you ask. That would be these guys...

NOLA peeps, You have been warned. We'll let you know when it's okay to start up again. In the meantime, try not to turn blue holdi...

Poochie Lest we forget, Sean Payton really really really wanted Poochie on the team this year.

On the one hand: New Orleans's political and law enforcement community operates in such an incompetent and/or corrupt fashion that an e...

Gonna try to stop obsessing over every new rumor about possible Obama Administration policy directions or cabinet hires at least until Dece...

Dean Baker: While the Bush administration must take responsibility for the current crisis (they have been in power the last eight years), th...

Since the Flood, this once no-nonsense middle-class enclave is fast on its way to becoming the center of the new NOLA Yuppie-ism. Not sayin...

Friday night, on Informed Sources, Erroll Laborde beamed over the passage of a change to the city charter giving the as-yet-to-be-written ci...

Are there any awards from 2006 still buried in the backyard at Saints camp? Would it help to dig them up?

Can the 4-4 Saints get it together today against the hated Atlanta Falcons and set themselves up for a serious playoff run? Yes. They. Can. ...

Who is the one football coach in America so anti-capable that he can spend 2 timeouts on 1 unsuccessful replay challenge? Answer: Les Miles

Matthew Syed in the Times of London The Sarah Palin of American football is blazing a trail across London in her Jimmy Choo shoes and loving...

Skip Bertman: "He made a career move, " said former LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman, who worked with Saban for four years. ...

Memory jogged this morning by Jude who writes Remember when Barack Obama's poor bowling skills doomed him forever to the political hinte...

I didn't say anything about it at the time, but I actually thought this was a really good ad.

Please do not hire any gross sexist pals of Ken Lay to run your treasury department . That would not be believable change. links via ATR ...

Losing a chairmanship isn't good enough. We wants blood

At least now we know Rahm Emanuel will never be Speaker of the House

Mitt. What a douche.

Keep those checks coming! Before the election, the party leadership in Congress discussed a lame-duck session to take up a bill that would p...

There are websites dedicated to having them fired the very same week that they are hired.

I had Missouri for Obama and Indian for McCain. I was wrong in each of those states. Each of those states cost 11 EVs which means my predi...

Harry Reid specifically tells us we don't even get to hope.

I have a thought about a particular change I can believe in

WTF was that anyway?

Mary Todd Lincoln

That Jeremy Shockey is an asshole Despite the fact that it seemed like a subversive political statement (as opposed to Jeremy Shockey’s over...

No post-election day is complete without one of Schroeder's results maps

Jesus, we may as well have just elected Hillary.

I'm trying to get ready to join the movement in time for Inauguration Day. Where do I find the books on Marxist Godless Islam?

We wait for Sy Hersh to write the really interesting stuff.

The Gambit's annual guide to NOLA douchebaggery is out this week. On the one hand, it's a testament to Gambit's journalistic...

George Bush is still the president. Obama should have signed up for the Cannizzaro deal Cannizzaro's transition period will be unusually...

MSNBC just reported that Rahm Emmanuel will be Obama's Chief of Staff. This administration already sucks.

Out of Iraq? Universal Health Care? Fair taxation? Job growth? FLOOD PROTECTION? A RESTORED NOLA? NOW PLZE? Get to work, Mr. Preznit Obama

CO, FLA, West Coast It's done. I want to hug as many people as I can tonight. I love you. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is s...

Didn't John McCain guarantee a victory?

NPR and FOX calling VA for Obama. Excepting Ohio... this is the first major Red State poach of the night. FLA and IN could be next.

WWL calls DA race for Cannizzaro. We've said all along that he ran a tighter and more organized race. Should make a decent DA but... w...

Rocky Mountain News calling CO for Obama

Clancy sez Landrieu showing well in JEFF PARISH. John Neely Kennedy is the FAIL of all FAILS.

The network calls in Ohio and New Mexico seem to point to an Obama victory. But right now it's dissappointing to see LA and GA go red s...

CBS calls New Mexico for Obama

CBS calls LA for McCain

Fox calls Ohio for Obama

Guess what... TOO CLOSE TOO CALL, Bitches

McCain takes Georgia. I thought maybe that might be in play for a sec

ABC sez Obama wins Pennsylvania

CBS calls NC Senate seat for Hagan

Exit Polls: North Carolina: Obama 51%, McCain 48% Ohio: Obama 53%, McCain 45%

Dems like what they see in Indiana

Here comes the landslide

Palin doesn't want to say who she voted for.

It's a mystery to me why any state would close its polls before 8PM at the earliest . I guess they can't all be as progressive and r...

Cannizzaro is clearly more organized today. Spotted these clever signs on Louisiana Ave.

1) I voted. Line was about 20 people deep. Took 15 minutes. 2) Leon Cannizzaro appears to have the most visible street organization in Upt...

At BWI yesterday morning I picked up the new Rolling Stone in which Matt Taibbi makes the following observation about the previous 2 years...

Just wanted to pop in and point out that for the second time in as many weeks, a dumb joke of mine has been repeated elsewhere. I'm stil...

My Friends, I wish I could spend this last weekend before the glorious socialist revolution with you but, regrettably, I will be out of tow...

Advance release of tonight's Obama "closing argument" infomercial Update: This evening I just watched Jon Stewart make exactl...

http://maps.google.com/vote It's what you think it is

Yglesias argues that the McCain campaign is doing as much as anyone else to provide Obama with a claim to a substantially progressive manda...

Here's a pretty good Wa-Po table based on the Tax Policy Center 's analysis of Obama and McCain's tax proposals. Note that whe...

No kicker is ever safe.

Despite what this poll says, I think Obama will get better than 17 percent of the white vote in Louisiana. Maybe not much better but if th...

Since we're not sure of Rose's status , we'll contribute a small nugget of local celebrity gossip. Trusted sources confirm that ...

Nothing more to say, really

I continue to have difficulty understanding why certain people in this city are so in love with the Whore-nets franchise. Convinced that the...

In a moment of actual brilliance the Mayor offers up the only plausible explanation for Ed Blakely's 1) saying he may think about leavi...