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CLANCY: BOBBY ALREADY SAILED OFF THE EDGE OF THE EARTH
JUN 2 Columnist Clancy DuBos writes about Bobby Jindal's "all-but-certain and all-but-doomed" presidential campaign in this post. Comparing Bobby to Chris Columbus, he says that Bobby actually did sail over the edge of his political earth, and he's the only one who seems to be unaware of that.
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BUILDING COLLAPSE OFFERS ARCHAEOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY
JUN 2 Here's an example of NOLA making lemonade out of lemons. After a historic building on Royal Street collapsed last year, somebody came up with the (astonishingly logical) idea to offer a local urban archaeologist a shot at a dig in the rubble. He took them up on it, and his team has made some cool finds.
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IAN ON THAT MEAN SIGN AT THE POBOY SHOP
JUN 2 Blogger Ian McGibboney posts this commentary on a nasty-natured sign about food stamps that has been making the rounds of the local interwebs, because it purportedly hangs over the checkout line at a local poboy shop. (No, not Old Tyme. Some other guys, who won't get free ink from us.)
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JAMES GILL ON THE SOCCER INDICTMENTS
JUN 2 Here's a Brit's view of the recent FIFA scandal. Columnist James Gill, who was born across the pond even though NOLA claims him as their own, writes in the Advocate about the indictments and how "the yanks rescue soccer."
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JUN 2 Here's a post from blogger CB Forgotston that is asking questions a lot of us are asking. Recently, our legislature, seemingly with plenty o time on their hands, passed a resolution requesting that LSU erect a statue (at its own cost) in honor of Pete Maravich. This is fine and dandy, but are these leges aware that LSU had to hold a bake sale recently to pay the electric bill?
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GRACE ON JINDAL: IN NEWSWEEK NOW
JUN 2 Columnist Stephanie Grace has been a busy little freelancing bee lately, selling stories to national publications about Bobby Jindal's destruction of Louisiana. This piece, in Newsweek, chronicles his ability to turn a billion-dollar surplus into a deficit of nearly twice that size.
Tuesday's Blogs from the Bog!
Clancy says Bobby sailed off the edge of the political earth long ago - he's just the only guy who doesn't know it. Also today, CB has a critical question for our leges and NOLA's turning lemons into lemonade.