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JUL 23 A Bay Area blogger muses on the conversion of Piyush Jindal to Bobby here in the Washington Post, sharing her own perspective as an Indian-American whose name is regularly slaughtered by Starbucks baristas. (Join the club, Noopur.) It's an interesting view of this oft-discussed issue.
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HERE'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION
JUL 23 Bob Mann expounds on the issue a lot of us are musing about these days - we all know Bobby Jindal doesn't have as snowball's chance in hell of being elected president, so what's he really up to? Bob has some interesting (and logical) guesses, but here's a better question. Did he really just financially trash Louisiana and permanently damage our public education systems, our universities and our health system just so he could get a high-paying job? Wow.
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DREHER ON THE COMMUNION-DENYING PRIEST
JUL 23 Blogger Rod Dreher weighs in on the story of the Amite man who was denied communion at the funeral of his mother because he's gay. As you might expect (because, dang, Dreher can't leave the poor gays alone) he's on the side of the priest - despite the fact that church leaders have said communion is not a weapon.
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LANDRIEU HANGING OUT WITH FRANCIS
JUL 23 NOLA Defender lets us in on what NOLA Mayor Mitch Landrieu had to say at the mayors' conference at the Vatican this week. Among other things, Landrieu told the other leaders that Louisiana has, unfortunately, become a lesson to others when it comes to the environment.
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JUL 23 This post on LaPolitics tells the embarrassing story of Scott Angelle's PAC losing its URL to David Vitter's PAC. Seriously - we're supposed to send money to people who can't even keep their web address? Huh.
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CB BREAKS DOWN TAYLOR'S INTERVIEW
JUL 23 Blogger CB Forgotston provides links to specific topics in Taylor Huckaby's recent radio interview. In it, Huckaby expands on the topics he covered in that amazing Advocate post he wrote, and if you missed it, CB's got a link to that, too. Bottom Line: Huckaby's remembering what it was like to work for Bobby Jindal.
Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!
Another perspective on the conversion of Piyush to a "Starbucks name," coming your way. Also today, Mitch is hanging with the Pontiff and Dreher on the gay-punishing priest.