Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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IAN: NFL FACEPALM ON SLAP YA MAMA
AUG 26 Here's blogger Ian McGibboney's take on the great NFL-Slap Ya Mama controversy of 2014. Ian's explanation of the expression is a lot better (and more accurate) than the PR nonsense that has come out, and he also raises a pretty good question: can Boudreaux's Butt Paste be far behind? (Wups! No pun intended...)
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GUILLORY'S BILL "COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME"
AUG 26 Sen. Elbert Guillory's bill aimed at preventing "armed and incapacitated geezers" from working as Justices of the Peace was a huge joke, columnist James Gill writes in this post. Nobody knows who really called Guillory asking for it, nor who sent him the text for it, but they certainly got a lot of mileage out of one phone call, Gill says.
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SLAP YA FIANCEE? OKEY DOKEY! SLAP YA MAMA? NOPE!
AUG 26 This post on the NOLA Defender blog takes a look at the recent decision by the NFL to cancel the advertising it previously accepted from the "Slap Ya Mama" seasoning. In light of recent events in which the NFL's ability to take domestic violence seriously was questioned, the league felt it wasn't a good idea, the post reports. The best part of this (kinda ridiculous) story, however, is the explanation the PR people give for the expression.
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MANN: PERRY'S GOT NOTHING ON BOBBY
AUG 26 If the indictment against Rick Perry is valid, and the Texas Governor goes to jail, then Bobby Jindal should get life, blogger Bob Mann writes in this post. Nothing Perry has done (that Bob knows about, anyway) comes close to Bobby's transgressions, Bob opines.
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ASWELL HAS MORE STATE POLICE STINKY
AUG 26 Here's another post from Tom Aswell about alleged shenanigans involving some State Police admins and their retirement. This time he's telling us about a retire/rehire situation in which the employee kept more than $40K in "incentive payout."
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CB: TANGI DESEG CASE CALCULATED TO PROFIT LAWYERS
AUG 26 Blogger CB Forgotston steps away from his usual favorite topic of state government for this post about the Tangipahoa Parish desegregation case. The only strategy the school system lawyers seem to have is to continue to generate invoices, he says.
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AN AMERICAN'S VIEW OF FERGUSON FROM IRELAND
AUG 26 Blogger Rod Dreher shares a post here from a former neighbor of Ferguson, Missouri who now lives in Ireland. It is an interesting view of an American now living abroad, both his personal reaction and the reaction of his new neighbors, of what's going on in Ferguson.
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AUG 26 Here are links to the results of Gambit's annual Best of New Orleans poll. There are the usual categories, but the best of course are the political choices. There's even a category for Ray Nagin's best "prison name."