Friday's Blogs from the Bog!

BROWN: WHAT ABOUT THE GENERAL?

MAY 22 Jim Brown is blogging about the governor's race in this week's post. While the GOP is busy packing its clown car with the sinning Senator nobody likes, a Jindal clone and the only genuinely nice guy in state office, and the pundits are saying voting for Edwards is like voting for the sinner, Brown wonders if our saving grace might just be "that John Wayne dude," as he describes Russel Honore. (Just for giggles, please note that there's a picture of Honore's book, with his first name properly spelled, at the top of the post. In the post, his first name is improperly spelled.)

NEWSFLASH: JINDAL'S A HYPOCRITE

MAY 22 Columnist Stephanie Grace articulates what most people who read the newspapers know - that Bobby Jindal just did what he has criticized President Obama for doing -- issuing an executive order in a controversial issue. Presumably, it wasn't for the same reason - because Obama already lives in the White House.

MORE DATA-SHARING AT DOE

MAY 22 Crazy Crawfish is giving us another case of the raging heebie jeebies with this post about the latest plan for our state Department of Education to "share" personal information about our children with corporations. It seems nothing is off-limits, doesn't it?

BREES FAMILY BUYS STOCK IN WALK-ONS

MAY 22 WVUE reports here that Drew and Brittany Brees are the new co-owners of the Louisiana-based sports bar franchise, Walk-Ons. The Brees family already has a history of investing in Louisiana franchise restaurants, having stock in several Jimmy Johns sandwich shops.

CAPTAIN OBVIOUS' COVERAGE OF THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

MAY 22 Here's a post from WWL that lets us in on an explosive secret: some think Bobby Jindal's executive order allowing discrimination against the LGBT community was done for political reasons. Wow! You don't say? In other news, WWL reports, it's Friday.

ELLIOTT'S MAD!

MAY 22 Usually we go to the Dead Pelican for links, but here's a post from the site on a controversy brewing between pollster Elliott Stonecipher and the Baton Rouge Business Report. Stonecipher gave a speech which BRBR covered, and he's not happy with how his comments were edited. The BRBR had to retract the story, correct and apologize. D'oh!