Library Chronicles

Only a few hours left of quiet contemplation. Then comes the noise. Then it's time to "go Galt" . In the meantime:

I've got a feeling about this LSU basketball team . I like Trent Johnson. I like Marcus Thornton. They're not as big or as deep as...

Ethics!

I read this whole T-P article and yet found not one instance of the phrase "bucking the trend." What the hell?

T-P: Man 'impersonating' cop was an actual NOPD officer

A T-P columnist has finally just gone for the throat and framed the LSU/VA dispute in "LSU vs Tulane" terms. Tulane, meanwhile,...

J'Anita's

Missing calendar dates found.

Funny

Where?

Is there any news they can't turn into a hateful, racist free-for-all?

Sidney Torres offers $10,000 reward for help finding the "real sludge dumpers"

Yeah I know it's kind of a bad time what with all the fun going on around town. (See everything mentioned in the below-linked WCBF post ...

On the one hand, I don't like it because I think E is just trying to put his name up on the marquee . (Dude wants to be famous and all)...

Dollar General will reopen store destroyed by Hurricane Katrina this weekend Click here to see how Dollar Stores help "buck the trend...

Area Man Down To Final Week Of Heyday

How uncanny are the times we're living in these days? Yeah, we've got our Vice-Presidential assassination squads , failing banks le...

Obviously, the only way out of this mess is for Stacy Head to resign immediately.

Stewart/Cramer Part 1 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Jim Cramer Interview Outtake Pt. 1 Daily Show Full Episodes Important...

I really want to spoil only one of the fun facts Red clues us in on in the post I'm about to link to but there are just so many..... Ok ...

Just reminding you now to watch the Cramer interview as soon as the video is available here. This is far from an original observation but we...

Clancy Dubos shares a fun story.

Hornets president Hugh Weber to ESPN via the The Gambit blog. While the NBA has taken out a line of credit to help struggling teams' c...

I guess I can stop hitting refresh on nolapublicrecords.org for now.

Not 24 hours ago, we were bucking the trend.

Dambala has something to add to yesterday's post . I'll just repost his comment in its entirety with annotations added in parenthe...

CityBiz at it again: Louisiana bucks national unemployment trend by CityBusiness staff reports BATON ROUGE - Louisiana was the only state wh...

This is already up on Eschaton which means most of my readers have seen it already but... Gah! WASHINGTON - The federal agency that insures...

This will be fun.

Spotted moments ago at your local grocer

But this was never gonna happen. Now they can get back to cutting all the rest of the actual popular players. Update : Or maybe they'r...

T-P's David Hammer: Last week, when the city's independent inspector general alleged years of questionable contracting and $4 milli...

Eli has a made a cute joke this morning . In case you missed the context, at the end of the day yesterday, the City announced that it was su...

Make sure the cops refuse to move. NEW ORLEANS - At a recent community crime meeting in Fabourg Marigny, a 5th District police officer let s...

President Obama is apparently the first US President to take advantage of the technological wonder known as the teleprompter.

Clancy Dubos flagged a lot of this yesterday , but I just wanted to point out that in light of yesterday's ruling it is now much more p...

Why is our justice system designed in such a way that witholding public records related to small-time municipal corruption will get the book...

From Stephanie Grace's column: Napolitano, whose department includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said she had a similar rea...

I get constant feedback from otherwise reasonable people who don't think she deserves to be treated like this. I don't think they k...

A commenter responds to Hilzoy . "Going Galt" is the conservative version of "Moving to France." Lots of people talk ab...

I mean... YUP LOL , with a hearty heh, indeed to boot.

Among the observations Christian Roselund makes in this excellent essay about Huey Long's impact on Depression era politics is the dist...

CityBiz: NEW ORLEANS - Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine today named Entergy Corp. one of the top 10 corporate citizens in the Unit...

Let's see... whaddawegot this morning? Key witness in murder trial downs whiskey and "sees dead people" Across the state, a ...

A few days ago, Clay put together another one of his typically awesome link round-ups . Please take a look at that post at your leisure. Cl...

Under normal circumstances, wouldn't we have expected Ed Blakely to be on this bus ? Is he waiting to take them on a bike tour later?

If you're like me... and I know I am... you might be getting a little tired of listening to Bobby Hebert pretend he knows something abou...

But this is encouraging. As is this! (Longtime readers will know that we are big time Devery fans here at the Yellow Blog)

That the Senior Senator from Louisiana really sucks sometimes?

Idiots The City Council has filed for a temporary restraining order in Civil District Court to prevent the release of their e-mails to the p...

By now most The Gambit readers should be familiar with editor Kevin Allman's affinity for pun-making. Or.. at least... most of us have ...

Go do what Ryan said .

1) Shop around an injury-plagued underperforming star with a big cap number for weeks. 2) Actually trade him. It's okay, the trade will...

At the same time that PBJ was on teevee half-smirkingly pouting about the magnetic train, "from Las Vegas to Disneyland" Jindal...

Dude takes it ALL the way home. In an unusual, perhaps unique, arrangement, State Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek has, in his words, ...

Far be it for me to say anything against the ongoing Jindal-bashing party in the mainstream press, the liberal blogosphere, the conservative...

Who else thinks "keystone Corps" is more than just an accident ?

Still working on the Mardi Gras post. Here are the Cheyenne Indians dancing on Second Street to tide you over.

Although I never understood the reasoning behind that decision.

E is obviously not too hungover this morning to take a critical look at PBJ's performance last night. Maybe it isn't fair to Sarah ...

Despite what you're seeing and hearing in the national media about something that happened on my block yesterday, Mardi Gras was also a...

David asks, "What was the worst thing about Jindal's presentation tonight?" (Meaning last night) Was it that he sounded like...

See you outside somewhere. Looks like a pretty one.

Obviously I've been doing Carnival-type stuff this weekend. It's no big loss to the general discourse, however. There certainly wo...

There are times when we face the shocking possibility that we may be getting too old for this. However, as many things, it is not a possibi...

Coming down St Charles Avenue last night Hermes was a beautiful parade. More later. Right now it's time to go back outside and play. ...

Actual reasonable discussion underway right now in a NOLA.com comment thread! And it's about ladder usage!

I've received the following photo from Lind's infamous Carnival source, "Deep Float" It appears the reveal the super-secre...

Who even knew there was a non-binding (so far) referendum on ladder usage underway at the The Gambit site? Remember, the choice here isn...

From yesterday's idiot page: Parade patrols are inconsistent Wednesday, February 18, 2009 While I realize the Orleans Police Department ...

While doing a little research for an upcoming post, I forced myself to re-read Geek Appeal , Jeremy Alford's campaign puff piece on Jind...

While watching Pygmalion pass on Friday night, I saw something I hadn't seen before so I asked the Tweeter Tube, "What is Roots of ...

Friday afternoon we held a minor ceremony at the library during which we posted a fresh set of "Please do not throw trash into the libr...