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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

S&WB math

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Here is a word problem for you to work out.  According to t he plan discussed at this week's meeting , how many turbines does the New Or...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Just let them make a YouTube channel

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You really have to hand it to the legislature for bringing the grifter energy to this emergency special session it has called.  Ostensibly, ...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Time for healing

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I am going to have to go watch this forum now for clarity but it does sound a lot like what Keva is saying here is that the "relationsh...

Having a normal one

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Everything that is happening is exactly what was supposed to happen.  Don't worry about it .   NEW ORLEANS — A large chunk of the parti...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Can't wait to see what they come up with

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Expiring benefits and the diminishing reserves of Louisiana's unemployment trust fund is a pretty big problem in the middle of a pandem...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Blood feud spills over

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If you were watching that bizarre facsimile of what we are now calling NFL football on the TV last night, you may have noticed that one Civi...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Plenty time left

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Despite the absolutely horseshit claims already emanating from partisan Democrats over the weekend, the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg is comp...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Hide the moneeeys!

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It's been an adventurous couple of years for the Convention Center.  Seems like every few months they have to come up with a brand new w...

What happens when you rush into "reopening the economy"?

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Nobody can know. If only there was some way to know .  In Spain, which was seeing fewer than 500 new coronavirus cases per day for much of ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

The bosses won the pandemic

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The football wars are a perfect microcosm of what's going on out there.  Just over a month after the Big Ten became the first major co...
Saturday, September 12, 2020

Que sera, man

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 You know, we've got so many problems right now, who even has time to think about this one ?   Tropical Depression 19 formed into Tropic...
Friday, September 11, 2020

Something about words and actions

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There's a saying about that somewhere I know I've heard before.  Maybe it applies here .  California’s governor Gavin Newsom, for ex...

Try zero circumstances

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There is no justification for any city to ever authorize its police to deploy internationally banned chemical weapons against its citizens. ...

Bad air makes for trouble breathing

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We do so many terrible things to ourselves in this state and say it's for "the economy." Is it any wonder the political agitat...
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Phase 2 and a half

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The Governor is supposed to talk later today about the COVID numbers and the status of the "phased reopneing."  Currently, Phase 2...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

Just get used to it

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Apparently that was always the plan .    On Friday, the carriageway doors to Pat O’Brien’s will swing open again, and staff wearing the bar...
Wednesday, September 02, 2020

I mean, yes, otherwise what is the point

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Warren Treme pleaded guilty in the FNBC case . He is the fifth client among the indicted to do so. It looks here like Treme's eventual t...

Death panels

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 Always grateful to be living here under the Best Healthcare System In The World .  The city’s death statistics reveal an aberration, ProPu...

We always skip ahead to Thermidor

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I know that to most cable news audiences it feels like there's a lot of chaos and stuff going on right now. But, in reality, US politics...

Just get used to it

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Months and months of failing to stop the virus, making half-committed efforts to stop it while also undermining those half-committed efforts...
Tuesday, September 01, 2020

What did we say about the first of the month?

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 Was worried something like this was up .  A woman facing eviction from her Central City apartment complex torched the building Monday nigh...

Large crowds to gather indoors, perhaps?

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The state has approved a plan for having fans cram into the Superdome t o watch the second Saints home game.  They haven't said how ma...

Go off, Queen

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And with that, Julie Lea just entered the grifter hall of fame .  The application encourages potential members to invest in the possible Nyx...

All in this together

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Not being an especially sharp science talking guy, I can't say I've tested this hypothesis that the virus is unable to cross Parish ...

Just blew right through

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Laura is already out of the headlines most everywhere but Louisiana.  Trump came down and signed some autographs or something and now they...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Worst person of 2020?

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Seems like a lofty title. The competition would be stiff. Pros only, please. Probably if you are a mayor of something, you've already g...

Joe says your complaint doesn't count

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Appeal thrown out on a technicality. Oh well, we tried.   Joe Biden: "Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Setting f...

Not going anywhere for a while?

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Wow after all those years of watching the city build streetcars even though we kept trying to tell them they are glorified theme park rides ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

The first of the month is coming back around

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You know, there is one every month. What's this one gonna be like ? Just over one million Americans filed new claims for state jobless ...

Nobody wants this big pile of money

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Last week, City Council passed a non-binding resolution i nstructing the Criminal District Court to stop collecting conviction and bail fees...

Chemical fire

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 Yikes A large chemical fire has sent a dangerous cloud over Lake Charles, hours after the eye of Hurricane Laura passed directly over the ...
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