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Friday's Blogs from the Bog!

Friday's Blogs from the Bog!

• Beam: We can't get rid of speed traps

  APR 25 In this post, columnist Jim Beam details this year's attempts to stop towns from setting up speed traps and issuing tickets to motorists driving just one or two miles over the speed limit. Again this year it is proving impossible to stop the speed traps, Beam writes, and motorists deserve better.

• Elbert makes the Colbert Report!

  APR 25 Yes, Sen. Guillory is on national television again. But, unlike the time he was featured on a TLC show about beauty pageants, he's probably not going to make space for this one on his DVR. Stephen Colbert makes an impassioned plea for Guillory's chicken boxing in this bit on the Colbert Report. It's classic - especially the last line.

• ALEC toadies have no problem with corporate welfare

  APR 25 Hypocrisy seems to be the buzz word at the state Capitol these days. Blogger Tom Aswell tells us about some state legislators who are toeing the line for ALEC's anti-poor policies but have no problem sticking their own hands out for corporate subsidies. Makes you think that maybe ALEC's agenda is about something else, now, doesn't it?

• Brown: quit talking, start doing!

  APR 25 Jim Brown is blogging about Bobby Jindal and insurance in this week's post. Jindal's health care plan could be good, could be bad, may be original, may not be original, who cares? Brown says Jindal's downfall is not his inability to propose things, it is his inability to accomplish things. Quit talking and start doing, Brown says.

• Is Bobby the poster boy for GOP now?

  APR 25 Here's another analysis of the NYT poll on the politics of health care, this time by the Talking Points Memo. Once again, Bobby Jindal's face is poised above the text, looking sincere (and a little constipated, we can't lie.) This post is a little less objective than the Los Angeles Times piece, but sums the take-aways up succinctly.

• Mann: it's about health care, stupid

  APR 25 Bob Mann is blogging about the legislature's vote against allowing you to decide if Louisiana should take the federal money for a Medicaid expansion. The vote came down to party lines -- and apparently it is the GOP that doesn't want you to vote on this issue, he writes. Mostly that seems attributable to the GOP's hatred of President Obama, he says, but that shouldn't matter.

• Dreher: 'Homosexual' is the new 'Negro'

  APR 25 Blogger Rod Dreher is back to a favorite topic in this post about whether or not the word Homosexual has become offensive. He's got an interesting excerpt here from a statement, signed by gay marriage proponents, calling for tolerance on both sides of the gay marriage debate.

• East on the looming late night changes

  APR 25 Here's blogger Katie East's take on the recently announced changes to CBS's late night lineup: Letterman's retiring and Colbert's taking his place, in case you live under a rock -- or don't care. It's not a bad choice, East says, but she's making the argument that CBS could have made a better move and put Ellen Degeneres in that spot.