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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Undefeated

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Seems the more times we go to court over the monuments , the flimsier any of the (already very flimsy) arguments against the legitimacy of t...

Preferred Comey Take Of The Day

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If you must have one Comey take today, make it this one. The FBI is fucking evil . To the extent that its investigation into ties between...

Maybe just say that he is a notorious phony

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No need to beat around the bush . Some observers who were seeing Kennedy in action for the first time even questioned whether the senator...

Tricentennial Land

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This clears up a question we had about the Six Flags deal yesterday. The deal also gives the IDB final say over any plan Landrieu’s offic...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

Normalizing the expectations

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One thing we can say for Trump is that he's doing a fantastic job of pulling the band aid off of Idiot America's understanding of th...

The pros and cons of getting nothing done

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Okay let's do the con first.  The last best chances for meaningful fiscal reform are dying in the legislature right now . A Louisiana ...

Setting everything up for the turnover to Mayor Scurlock

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According to this, the mayor's office is taking the fate of the Six Flags site back into its own hands .  Sort of. Mayor Mitch Landrie...

It's Chinatown

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Fred Heebe runs and owns all of it . Ray Nagin gets a day out of jail to go testify and all but, you can kind of see where things are headed...
Monday, May 08, 2017

Our Stupid Senator

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We need to start collecting John Kennedy's Stupid Senate moments. There is already a big pile on which to toss this one. 🔥🔥🔥🔥...

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly

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This book review was brought to my attention by the latest Chapo. In short, it's about work and how we should fuckabuncha work. That...

"He was no angel"

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James Gill thinks it's very important that we acknowledge a man who was summarily executed by police was not "a respected man....

Ransomed

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Congratulations to the city of New Orleans and to municipalities all over the state. You've ransomed your local budgets to private compa...
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Ashton Ryan's money club

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This is one of those rare good news stories about bank regulators doing their job . Maybe a little late, but ok. Also, it's not perfect ...
Saturday, May 06, 2017

Why are they protecting the hotel?

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The Advocate gives this unidentified "tony French Quarter hotel" more consideration than Cannizzaro's office gives to victims...
Friday, May 05, 2017

Heroes

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Not really sure how t his one woman's actions a re any different than say, the entirety of the Ben Carson for President campaign, anyway...

Cinco de Scurlock

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I don't know. It's a thing, I guess . The man behind an inflatable jump house empire, skywriting over Jazz Fest and attempts to r...
Thursday, May 04, 2017

Respect the certificate

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The Mayor's Cousin Ken will not face charges for impersonating an officer after all. Landrieu, 54, said he felt vindicated by the de...

Palate cleanser

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We really need to make time to get back to the things that matter around here like football. I've been wanting to at least say a few thi...

Heckuva job

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Eventually, they passed it .  The US House just voted to (theoretically, if this ever becomes law) yank health care benefits away from somet...

Everybody's feelings got hurt

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This monuments controversy sure has been divisive. It's good to see that the powerful wealthy men on both sides of the argument can main...
Wednesday, May 03, 2017

Eventually they are probably going to do it

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No matter how many times the Republicans fail to pass an ACA repeal, they are going to have to keep trying, or look like they are trying, at...

Dead litigant walking

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When this is finally over, Fisher will be the last one to know about it . Having failed to block the project in Louisiana courts, Stuart “...

Stampede at the monument

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Think back with us for a moment. Back to the olden days of, oh say two years ago. All the talk of the town at that time was about Confederat...

Gotta spend money to make money

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In addition to just the outright ghoulish nature of drastic cuts to vital health services in order fund TOPS, there's the bald stupidity...

Mobs of unruly out of towners are bad for the neighborhood

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What an interesting story angle . Usually we're told that clusters of people who don't actually live here are more important than we...
Tuesday, May 02, 2017

Well done

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Clearly the best way to inform the families and principals involved in these sensitive matters is to let them read about it through leaks to...
Monday, May 01, 2017

Happy Loyalty Day

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Once upon a time , striking workers fought through a bloody police riot and were subjected to an unjust show trial so you can have an 8 hour...

"Regardless of where the truth may lay"

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Pearson Cross explains why the governor is in deep doo doo . Edwards has been vocal in where he thinks the breakdown is happening when try...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

He really is Boss Hogg

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Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser, the reigning Stupidest Corrupt Person In Louisiana, is in trouble again. This time there's no Iraqi Oil Mi...
Saturday, April 29, 2017

Who does and doesn't trust our criminal justice system

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Of all the things that one could say about Orleans and Jefferson Parish District Attorneys and their fake subpoena tactics this week, City C...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Speaking of things we called two years ago...

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We sure showed him, didn't we ? I still say the best way to get back at Trump is elect him and make him actually have to be Presiden...

EPCOT Circle

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We are begrudgingly grateful to Mitch Landrieu for not getting in the way of a decades long people's campaign to take down the city'...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

How did we get here?

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Bobby gave all the money away to his friends and now there isn't any money .  For 30 years, Louisiana had enough money in its various ...

Welcome, Jazzfest visitors

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Just popping in to clear up a bit of residual confusion you might have picked up reading that one Vogue article .  If you're looking to ...

Leave Jazzfest alone.. this time

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How much would you pay to know your overrated pasta is safe? It's super fun to troll our favorite over-priced magnet for the pretenti...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

ACA repeal never died

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They've always had all the time in the world to keep trying.  And they do have to keep trying. Sooner or later they're going to pass...

Business as usual

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Kind of interesting that the CAT died in Baton Rouge at about the same time that the BAT died in Washington. As of late Tuesday, the plan ...

Corexit bugs

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Didn't BP's dispersant spray already demonstrate that this is probably a bad idea ? Whether releasing wax moths on the world’s sur...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

And the number one reason Louisiana might actually abolish the death penalty is...

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The Governor has no position on it. For his part, Gov. John Bel Edwards, who is championing a slate of criminal justice reform bills thi...

The curiosity that killed the CAT

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Kind of a weird little coalition of opponents here . The committee voted after people representing large oil companies, large chemical com...

Ok but what about Swamp Molly?

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Billy Nungesser has some things to say in the interest of putting the record straight. Regarding the Pontalba apartments, I, like my rec...

Just give us our money

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Score one for the #FixMyStreets trolls . A state representative is proposing to redirect about $16 million a year in taxes from the Ernes...
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