Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Wednesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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STILL NO GAY MARRIAGE IN LOUISIANA
OCT 8 Here's a post from Richard Burgess on the Advocate about how the Supreme Court's decision to avoid gay marriage this session will affect Louisiana. Basically, it means our ban on gay marriage stands, he reports, but it might put Louisiana's case in the news in the future.
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JINDAL ADMIN DUCKS OGB HEARING FOR BOY BAND
OCT 8 Really - we can't make this stuff up. While state employees were testifying about the horror story that has become their health benefits plan, Director of Administration Kristy Nichols "fidgeted" until she left to take "an important phone call," blogger Tom Aswell reports in this post. She never returned to the hearing, but was seen later in NOLA, in the Governor's suite, watching One Direction. And that's not the worst thing reported in this post. Yikes.
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OCT 8 Col. Terry Ebbert, the retired marine who was head of NOLA's Homeland Security office during Katrina, looks back nine years in this post on The Lens. There were plenty of lessons to be learned from that storm, but have we absorbed them? Ebbert doesn't think so.
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OCT 8 Columnist Jim Beam is writing about something Louisiana is known for - colorful politicians. Two Congressional races are certainly a lot more interesting because they contain a "kissing congressman" and the Silver Fox, Beam opines.
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HIGHLAND COFFEES SITUATION A SYMPTOM
OCT 8 The saga continues at the North Gates of LSU, where an independent coffee shop might or might not be closing to make way for a chain something-or-other, DIG Baton Rouge posts here. While Highland Coffees' fate there is still up in the air, the situation is indicative of a larger problem, some say: chains and corporations stomping out what little culture and individuality Baton Rouge does have.
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OCT 8 This is an interesting post on Commentary Magazine. The upshot is, liberals are stupid and Bobby Jindal is a wonk. Author Seth Mandel also says that Jindal has apparently learned the "importance of perceived authenticity" (uh, what??) and is no longer sporting "faux-folksiness." Huh.
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OCT 8 New Orleans made the "brackets" in Gawker's Ugliest Accent Tournament, Gambit reports in this post. But which New Orleans accent is in the running? As anyone knows, there are a LOT of them - sometimes you can narrow it down to a neighborhood. As author Kevin Allman notes Katrina (that beeotch) has even had a negative impact on the city's language, because you just don't hear the Yat like you used too.
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PEACOCK'S PICKS FOR THE AMENDMENTS
OCT 8 This post on Forward Now is from state Sen. Barrow Peacock R-Shreveport. He's clearly explained each of the Constitutional amendments on the November ballot, and while he gives his recommendations for voting he also gives links to the amendments' texts so you can read them for yourself.