Library Chronicles

On December 31 of last year, Dr. Morris wrote a short post wishing 2007 a not-so-fond farewell. That post concluded, "Oh, and next ye...

In his local politics year-in-review column for this week's Gambit , Clancy Dubos writes the following in regard to Bill Jefferson's...

At the risk of being savaged once more for neglecting to photograph the pepper mill, I'm re-posting last year's New Year's Day b...

The term has more depth of meaning than one would expect.

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria. Zakaria marvels at the Chinese government's ability to squelch dissent and level entire neig...

Remember back when we all made a big stink about Louisiana's "fair share" of oil and gas royalties? A larger share of that p...

It's basically a self-righteous scapegoating movement that almost always does more to intrude on the lives of regular people rather than...

Because I just saw it here. But I wanted to share all the same.

I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense for the representative of a majority black district to seek inclusi...

Busy busy all the time lately. I actually took a vacation day yesterday just to get caught up a bit. Since I was out during the afternoon, ...

Pick your dream Jazzfest lineup. My suggestions: Jon Bon Jovi Michael Bolton Clay Aiken New Method And, of course, these people . Cyril Nevi...

Are we still "bucking the trend"?

Joe Cocker isn't dead yet?

This afternoon on WIST radio, Kaare Johnson was attempting to reach out to the "Bush haters" who "might be cheering this guy ...

What does it say about this town that Arnie Fielkow is somehow considered an "acceptable" white candidate for mayor , but Mitch La...

You can tell because of the steady drop in the quality of greeting materials that is only now beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel. ...

CSPAN today (repeat footage from Thursday) is a steady stream of Senators congratulating one another for their hard work on an auto industry...

Ooooh I want to say it's Ed Blakely soooo much... but he doesn't really live here so we go with David Vitter.

I think my councilperson is an annoying yuppie who is generally hostile to poor people like me who live in her district but don't own pr...

And possesses other such charms.

Where does he "hear" these things? "She (Stacy Head) needs to do something," Nagin said. "What I hear on the street...

Edit: In the original version of this post, I mention my continuing difficulty completing the trademark Yellow Blog game posts this year. ...

Last week, we very confidently nominated the Gret Stet in TPM's tounge-in-cheek "Most Corrupt State" contest . If you're ...

Snowing in New Orleans this morning Update: More pics NOLA snowfalls in my lifetime: 1989, 2004, 2008. And that's it. Three in my life...

We at the Yellow Blog are feeling very much like the 2008 New Orleans Saints when it comes to this year's Christmas video war. We'r...

Jammal Brown won't play Thursday for the New Orleans Saints against Chicago

It's happening much more quickly than... anybody could have predicted . So we're responding appropriately.

This was suggested by Menckles What the fuck is that on her head?

Too much. Too soon . I'm still just easing into it. Here's another sad and pathetic Saints-emblemed holiday item.

Back in October, e published a quickly-googled list of nine incidences of criminal activity by NOPD over the past five years. Today we find...

The annual NOLA blogosphere War On Christmas is back and bad as ever. The way this works is it's sort of a race to the bottom where ever...

Let's do this thing, bitches!

This Gambit review of the new Guns n Roses album begins with the line, Whew, the new Guns-n-Roses album is officially not bad! And then goe...

How many local Obama supporters agree with the argument that "the executive's appointments don't matter" and yet have sig...

The Governor of Illinois tried to sell a Senate seat to the highest bidder. Surely the local punditry will remember this before it makes the...

Yes, they are freaking nuts. Adding.. In addition to David's criticism, this deal allows the (current) President to appoint the "cz...

I have to agree with the TPM analysis of the new Obama strategy of whining about its "angry left wing" critics. Really, one has t...

I must have missed the announcement that a new pope had been selected . I'm not even sure the conclave was well-attended enough to cons...

Has Karl Rove told us that Joseph Cao's victory constitutes a negation of Obama's mandate yet?

I received telephone calls today from Stacy Head and Jay Batt. They both wanted me to vote for a Republican. I don't think you could ha...

Deuce McAllister, Will Smith can play Sunday for New Orleans Saints

My age the last time the one-month job loss number was this big. And that is saying something as I am a very old man.

The long-standing recommendation to read Matt Taibbi remains in effect: Obviously there has been some dire news on that front already. When...

Today, from City Business , we learn the following. Tulane dedicating $27.5M biosafety lab COVINGTON - Tulane University plans to dedicate a...

I know the local rags love to go in for this "bucking the economic trend" crap, but this really is a reach . Adding.. Sunday, I pu...

Organized Labor has come to save Deuce for us. NFL Players' Union Seeks To Block Suspensions

We Can

And it is.. Molleresque Previous tales of the Molleresque here and here .

"The courts don't work anymore, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else , everything will be ok."

It's time to finish off those leftovers the right way. Yesterday, I made my annual turkey carcass stock. Tonight, I'm making the g...

Strange that 1) The Hornets decide to hide their true identity from a visiting team from Charlotte . 2) While already pretending to be a te...

New Orleans Saints Deuce McAllister, Will Smith and Charles Grant suspended four games

I hate those stupid streetcars too . Isn't this whole meme of variously decorated theme-ornaments kind of 10 years-ago anyway? I still ...

I'm working on one of those long Yellow Blog Saints game recaps with material covering the past two weeks. But I've been notoriousl...

Wow look at them beat the hell out of Elie simply for pointing out that large vacant buildings downtown are probably not a good thing. Upda...

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...