Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
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GRACE TALLIES THE BEST AND WORST
NOV 3 Columnist Stephanie Grace gives us her scorecard of the best and worst of this campaign (so far) in this post on the Advocate. Some of these reminders are amusing, but some we'd just as soon forget.
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NOV 4 Salon joins the group of national publications enamoured with Edwin Edwards with this story about the Sliver Fox's campaign for Congress. Jack Barlow seems to have figured out the mystique pretty thoroughly, and does a good job of explaining why the rogue seems to have nine lives.
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BOBBY MUM ON THE POPE'S BIG BANG
NOV 4 Not too long ago Pope Francis made the (obvious?) statement that being a Christian does not require one to ignore science, and in particular evolution. God is not a magician with a magic wand, the Pope said. So what does Bobby "I'm a big ole Catholic" Jindal, the Brown biology major who claims one can be a non-evolutionary biologist, say about it? Nuttin', the Pic says in this post.
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NOV 4 We can't be that hard to figure out. Or maybe the media just likes having one state at which to roll their collective (and condescending) eyes. This post on the Daily Beast talks about our "crazy" elections and the "Big Sleazy." K.
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CLANCY ON JINDAL'S 'FRIVOLOUS' CLAIM
NOV 4 Columnist Clancy DuBos gives us the latest developments in the Big Oil-Levee Board lawsuit, and what it all means. Two small, privately-held companies named as defendants have settled, and that's significant, Clancy says.
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MANN: GRAVES AS BAD AS EDWARDS
NOV 4 Blogger Bob Mann already has proclaimed Edwin Edwards an "unacceptable" candidate in the 6th Congressional District, and now he's adding another name to the list -- Garret Graves. Apparently Graves' recent campaign ads were too much for Mann's sensibilities. (Who you gonna go with, Bob? Whitney?)
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ALFORD: ELECTION SEASON 'BONKERS'
NOV 3 Jeremy Alford recounts the "beyond awkward" moments in this election season in this post on LaPolitics. He touches on the craziness in the Shreveport mayoral race, of course the 6th Congressional race and the Senate race. Thank goodness, all these candidates have run out of time, he says.
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NOV 4 This post on The Nation is an interesting look inside the world of Teach for America, the group that brought us John White and is inextricably entwined in the current "reform" movement. Apparently, the group isn't open to scrutiny or criticism.