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BUZZ: JINDAL'S MORE WORRIED ABOUT GROVER THAN US
MAR 3 Blogger Stephen Sabludowsky comments here on the reality that Grover Norquist matters a lot more to Bobby Jindal than anybody here in Louisiana. Citizens, taxpayers, college students, legislators - forget it, Stephen writes. Unless you're Grover, you're not on the radar.
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MAR 3 In the months after Katrina, some of the most gut-wrenching and real work in journalism came from Chris Rose, who was a columnist for the Picayune at the time. His first-person work bared his soul and his struggles, and evolved into a best-selling book and a Pulitzer. What happened to him after that is just as gut-wrenching, this post on the Columbia Journalism Review tells us.
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SCARY CONSPIRACY OVER IN WASHINGTON PARISH
MAR 3 This is the kind of story that makes your blood run cold. WWL reports on how a guy who served a lawsuit on a police officer was facing charges he attacked the officer, with cops and attorneys making statements against him - until cell phone video surfaces showing he didn't do anything of the sort. Yikes.
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ASWELL: JINDAL TELLIN' WHOPPERS ABOUT HIS DADDY AT CPAC
MAR 3 Blogger Tom Aswell gives us the skinny on what went down at that crazy conservative love fest, the recent CPAC meeting. Interestingly, Bobby Jindal's rewriting of his own creation story (he ain't an anchor baby in this one) isn't even the tops on the crazy scale, Tom says. Yikes.
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THE DRESS AND MEDIA COMMENTARY
MAR 3 Here's a commentary on that stupid dress situation taking over the interwebs. It's pretty hilarious, because it is speculating as to what the biggest bolviators among the conservative blowhards would have to say about it, if it were a political issue. There's even a prediction of what Louisiana's own bloviating blowhard, Scott McKay, would say.
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WHY IS BLACK HISTORY SEGREGATED?
MAR 3 This post on The Lens takes a look at the way that we continue to separate Black History from the rest of American history by relegating it's "celebration" to the shortest month of the year. Black history is American history, but only if it is honestly incorporated, Eugene Thomas writes.
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MAR 3 Here's a post on NOLA Defender about the Lenten tradition of Fish Frys in New Orleans. There's also some interesting information from the Catholic Church about the "rules" of Lent - if you feel like getting into that increasingly touchy subject of whether or not our fried shrimp or boiled crawfish Fridays qualify as abstention or not.
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Buzz says Jindal's more worried about Grover than he is about us - and he ain't wrong about that! Also today in La La Land, we find out what happened to Chris Rose, and there's a scary conspiracy going on over in Washington Parish.