Library Chronicles

I still can't believe I'm reading a bunch of stuff about the Saints playing in the Superbowl. Freaking weird.

Regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's primaries, the same basic group of clowns will end up determining what gets done around here tha...

US Attorney is a political office . I don't understand why anyone would pretend otherwise.

Four years ago, we presented a virtual bag of Hershey's Kisses to Kimberly-Williamson Butler in recognition of her efforts to bring us ...

Just go read what Skooks says in the comments here.

Does not one local sports bobblehead think that maybe the favorite can win the Superbowl? Seems like they're all in the tank for the Sai...

The answer was always Joe Montana . Of course, that was before we had Tim Tebow but still the guy is quite the overrated douche.

Didn't care when the service was free but I just had to pay JS-Kit so that they wouldn't erase six years of stuff. And now we're...

LSU can sign as many "blue chip" athletes as they want , but as long as Les Miles is around, the whole program is stuck in neutral...

This election season we have learned that John Georges is: Uncomfortable around animals "an African-American candidate" A strong D...

John Georges is one strange dude . The Dekes later denied that any sexual activity with the goat actually took place...I could find no comme...

Shorter Tom Arnold: "What? I'm actually supposed to give a shit about the wording of my own bullshit? Grow up."

I fail to understand what the big deal is here. Claude Mauberret produces a flier that says Janis Lemle's campaign manager used to wor...

When the Lil Liddy story broke, many local Dragonslaying enthusiasts expressed their unbridled glee at the idea of their hero, Gambit New O...

But sometimes you gotta go to work no matter how much you drank the night before. Yesterday was one of those days. So far that makes two pa...

This was probably the best of a weak batch of pictures I took at Krewe du Vieux Saturday night. We were running a bit late so I left the cam...

La. Democratic Party to Gov. Jindal: State should sue to protect 'Who Dat' I know you think they're being douchebags. And I kno...

Not too long ago I would have felt the need to blog about Krewe du Vieux in a rudimentary explanatory way as though I were talking to someo...

T-P: The National Football League appeared to back off Friday on its trademark ownership claims to the phrase "Who Dat" and the fl...

Shit, yeah! Never in my life did I ever think I'd say Give 'em hell, Vitty! but there it is. Roger Goodell, Commissioner National F...

.. Wait. Forget that. Instead watch this ad for aspiring coroner (or perhaps late night movie host) Dwight McKenna I saw this ad on TV. I h...

District C Candidate Tom Arnold "writes" a platform. If he wins, maybe he'll photoshop himself to Disneyland to celebrate.

I mean we've all lived long enough to see the Saints go to the Superbowl. What else is there to do? If they're going to treat us li...

It's that he doesn't want to pay for tickets . In an interview with WBOK radio this morning, Nagin said his office has been in touch...

We might wish it to be otherwise but it's just a plain fact. All this pretense of decorum doesn't sit well with me. I'd rathe...

Because there are a few people I can insert in the blank and just go with that all day. One of those people is Athenae . When you lionize t...

The just departed Howard Zinn on Obama in a recent edition of The Nation I've been searching hard for a highlight. The only thing that c...

The T-P so rarely reports on the nice things I do. Red-light cameras in Jefferson suspended amid frustration with compensation of lobbyist L...

I'm not even going to try to say anything.

When he's Lil' Liddy. So why did virtually every reporter get this wrong? There are spliced shots of O’Keefe dressed outlandishly as...

Adrastos unveils an inspired moniker here if I do say so myself. Meanwhile an anonymous commenter in an AZ thread points us to Huff-Po whe...

..... Now And to think, people were actually worried that the Superbowl might make the political season boring by comparison. Instant Updat...

As per the stipulations of Obama's agreement to root for the Saints , the Colts will be awarded 4 of the 6 points generated by each Sain...

Halas Trophy presentation January 24, 2010

However, "Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. Proverbs 11:7 At the beginning of the footba...

We got this. I mean... come on   Adding: I was disappointed in Keith Spera's story about the Crunk song in this morning's T-P for...

Before we look back at this (admittedly quite memorable) football season I'd like to spend a few minutes looking back at the Greatest Fo...

It will become more and more significant as your democracy accelerates its crumbling .

Obviously this was a national referendum on selling your daughter to the highest bidder. You'll never guess which side won.

Sybil Morial may have just delivered a game-changing blow to Troy Henry in the mayor's race. I'm a little pre-occupied with football...

Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson are clowns. David Brooks is an evil person. Got it? Please do something to help the people of Haiti. Whatev...

We're pretty sure it was our Who Dat altar. And now we get to make another one next week. Great game. More later. Update: Making your...

It's been a disappointing month for the New Orleans Saints. The strain and stress of the long NFL season has taken its toll on the team...

The post I've got in the can is all about how I'm disappointed in Saints fans this season and how I'm not too optimistic about t...

Spike Lee is working on a sequel to 2006's When the Levees Broke Lee has said for years that he intended to follow-up on the original b...

The most I ever learned about Haiti I learned back in 1998 when I happened to be reading Carolyn Fick's The Making of Haiti at about t...