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Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

• WHAT'S UP WITH THAT SUPER PAC?

  JUL 17 Columnist Jeremy Alford gives us the latest on the super PAC that most believe was created to facilitate David Vitter's ascendancy to the gubernatorial position in Louisiana. Some of the more recent shenanigans are a little weird and very confusing, but Alford's giving some detail that explains some of it.

• WHO TALKS FUNNY?

  JUL 17 Here's an entertaining post by blogger and author Ken Wheaton, an Opelousas boy now living in Brooklyn. He's trying to explain some of our linguistic idiosyncrasies to our Northern brethren, including get down, put up and sha. He's careful to point out that New Orleans is not Cajun Country and, in his self-description, notes that he's pretty sure they're making gumbo all wrong.

• HANNA: MANESS SHOULD DROP OUT

  JUL 17 Columnist Sam Hanna Jr. says Rob Maness, the tea party candidate in the Landrieu Senate race, should pull out. Why? Eh, not too clear on that. He says Landrieu's re-election is in jeopardy, the Republicans should win, and that all the "undecided" voters in a recent poll are going to Cassidy. (What? So why are they undecided?) But the best part is where he says that female voters really like voting for doctors. Huh?

• 40-YEAR-OLD MOM JOINS SAINTS CHEERLEADERS

  JUL 17 A 40-year-old mom of two made the cut to be a member of the Saints' cheerleading squad, this post on Yahoo tells us. The lady, who is from Mississippi, beat out a bunch of 20-somethings for the post. You go, girl!

• TROOPERS ASSOCIATION MIGHT GET INVOLVED

  JUL 17 Louisiana's state police association may get involved in the controversy over a bill, slipped in on the last day of the session, that bumped state police Commander Mike Edmonson's annual retirement check by $30K, blogger Tom Aswell tells us in this post. For his part, Edmonson says he didn't know about the action and didn't ask for it. Aswell does not appear to accept that explanation.

• MORE ON THE TAXICAB DEPARTMENT

  JUL 17 After several bizarre incidents involving his "inspectors," the head of the New Orleans taxicab control board was canned earlier this month. Not a lot was said at the time, but this post on Gambit gives us the skinny on the situation.

• AN OLIVE BRANCH, TO BOBBY FROM CHAS

  JUL 17 BESE and the state Department of Education offered a compromise to Bobby Jindal Wednesday, and this post on the NOLA Defender blog gives us the deets. The BESE letter is a little whiny, asking that the governor please, please, please consider the proposal presented to him "in good faith." Here's the real question: school starts in about a month, less in some parishes. What are teachers supposed to be teaching then?

• MANEUVERING ON THE LEVEE BOARD

  JUL 17 Never have so many been so fascinated with the membership of a levee board. But the next appointments to the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East may very well decide the most-watched lawsuit of the decade, The Lens reports here.