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Monday's Blogs from the Bog!

Monday's Blogs from the Bog!

• CLANCY: JINDAL HAS NO DEPTH, NO SUBSTANCE

  JULY 7 Columnist Clancy DuBos says he's finally found the right metaphor for "the shallowness of Bobby Jindal's political narrative." It's a shadow play, he says: shadows on a wall, telling an "artless tale" without any substance.

• MANN SAYS HE WAS WRONG ABOUT KING

  JUL 7 Blogger Robert Mann writes about King Alexander, the LSU chief hired via a secretive (and possibly illegal) search by the school's board of supervisors. Mann once opined that such a rotten search process could not produce a good candidate, but now he says he was wrong. King might be what LSU needs, Mann says.

• NOLA CAB BUREAU CHIEF GETS CANNED

  JUL 7 Malachi Hull, who has overseen New Orleans' taxi cab-tour guide agency for the past three years, got the boot last week, NOLA Defender reports in this post. Hull was in charge when some nuttiness happened - like an "inspector" man-handling a tour guide and another pepper spraying and cuffing a cab driver.

• IS JOHN WHITE'S JOB IN JEOPARDY?

  JUL 7 Columnist Jeremy Alford assesses state Superintendent John White's future in this post. White apparently feels strongly about Common Core, and that's too bad because Bobby Jindal has decided it's not in his political best interest to keep it around. Alford provides some background and the latest buzz on the back-and-forth over the issue.

• GILL ON THE BATON ROUGE TOLERANCE ORDINANCE

  JUL 7 Columnist James Gill is writing about the ordinance up for consideration in Baton Rouge (again) that would make it illegal to discriminate against gay people. One poll says a majority of BR people want it passed, but some "Christians" are fighting it, Gill says. (Guess they skipped the part in the Bible where Jesus said to love your neighbor.)

• "HOBBWASH"

  JUL 7 Blogger Ian McGibboney takes issue with those who subscribe to the claim that (craft store)'s recent lawsuit had anything to do with religious freedom. There's nothing in the Constitution that gives you the right to force your religious beliefs on others, he says.

• JIM HAS AN IDEA FOR DISASTER AID

  JUL 7 Jim Brown is blogging about disasters in this post; not just about our own familiar disasters (hurricanes) but those earthquakes that Oklahoma has been having, storms across the country, droughts and wildfires. It's time to set up a national disaster insurance corporation, Jim says.

• NOT EVERYONE RAN AWAY

  JUL 7 When the shots rang out in the French Quarter, and people started falling, a lot of people ran away. But some did not, and the Picayune posts this editorial about the ones who ran toward the fallen, and tried to help.