Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
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LAMAR: HIDE IT FROM BOBBY IN A LAW BOOK
AUG 7 Blogger Lamar White Jr. hits the nail on the head in this post: if you want to make sure Bobby Jindal never sees it, hide it in a law book. Bobby can't seem to write a law that works, Lamar reminds us, with a long list of the Governor's "reform" malarkey that gets overturned at every turn.
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SILVERSTEIN ON THE 'SECRET WORLD OF OIL'
AUG 7 This post on Harper's Bazaar is a Q&A with author Ken Silverstein, an investigative reporter who recently published a book about corruption in the oil industry. And look - Louisiana gets a special mention!
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WRITERS ACCUSE TRUE DETECTIVE CREATOR OF PLAGIARISM
AUG 7 Here's a weird one. This post on AV Club outlines accusations made by a writer against Louisiana homeboy Nic Pizzolatto, creator of the wildly successful True Detective series. But Pizzolatto has openly acknowledged the influence of the writer's work on his show, even saying some dialogue was intended to "signal" admirers. This apparently is a fierce debate that has been going on since the show began.
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NOLA PERFORMER RUSSELL GONE AT 44
AUG 7 Veronica Russell, a well-known performer and costumer in New Orleans, died Wednesday, this post in the Picayune reports. She was an actress on stage, screen and television, but that doesn't really cover her artistic resume.
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AUG 7 We can't educate our children, we can't take care of our children; we're corrupt and unhealthy and now we find we can't even take care of our furry kids. This post on WWL radio tells us that Louisiana is second in the nation for heartworm cases among our dogs.
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VITTER, JINDAL MENTION IN MORNING BITS
AUG 7 Both David Vitter and Bobby Jindal got a mention in this version of the Washington Post's Morning Bits blog. Vitter gets an (inexplicably) upbeat mention for coming out in support of Common Core, and Jindal gets a slap for not explaining his "flip flop" on the issue.
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AUG 7 The continuing saga of the so-called Edmonson Amendment is stuck in a feed-back loop, blogger CB Forgotston writes in this post. Edmonson says he won't take the money if the amendment is found to be unconstitutional, but it is his buddies who are blocking a lawsuit that would determine its constitutionality, CB says.
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ULL STUDENTS CREATE CHINESE RECRUITMENT VIDEO
AUG 7 Here's a cute video of a group of ULL students dancing to a Chinese pop song. The video, directed by Xiangbo Li of the Chinese Students & Scholars Association, shows the students in some familiar spots in Lafayette, Baton Rouge and NOLA. It's a "welcome" to future Chinese students at the university.