Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

RABALAIS: POLITICS AND SPORTS DON'T MIX

JUN 4 If you're wound up about the shortage of baseball tickets for UL fans, don't blame it all on LSU, Advocate sports writer Scott Rabalais writes here. Save some ire for your legislators, because they're snarfing up almost 300 tickets -- which is nearly half of those dedicated to all of UL's fans. Nice!
CHRIS ROSE IN SALON: JINDAL'S HATRED WON'T SPREAD

JUN 4 This post from Chris Rose in Salon magazine addresses the unique insult that Bobby Jindal's executive order to allow discrimination against gay people. That has caused "an image crisis and public relations meltdown" for the city that makes its bread and butter with tourism, Rose writes. It's a great story.
CLANCY: VITTER NOT INVINCIBLE

JUN 4 Clancy DuBos takes a look at David Vitter's chances in the governor's race. Can anybody beat him? Short answer is yes, and perhaps the most interesting person on the list of those who can torpedo Vitter's chances is Vitter himself.
AJMC: PRESIDENTIAL AMBITIONS AND A TAX PLEDGE

JUN 4 Here's an interesting post in the American Journal of Managed Care about how Bobby Jindal's presidential ambitions and his addiction to Grover Norquist are threatening medical institutions across the state, including the University Medical Center in NOLA. This is not a good look for Louisiana in a national publication.
THE UNSINKABLE URSULINES

JUN 4 Country Roads magazine posts this cool story about the Ursuline nuns in New Orleans. They've been in the city since the 18th century, and have had an impact on a number of levels. It's a great read.
UPDATE ON THE CORPS' CONTINUED SNAFU

JUN 4 Now that it has been 10 years since Katrina, plenty has been written about what the city has (or hasn't) accomplished in terms of recovery. But what has been done to ensure that another man-made disaster doesn't follow a natural one again? Not a lot, according to this extremely detailed blog about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' work on the canals, pumps and levees in the city.