Thursday's Blogs from the Bog!

HEADING TO THE GAME? GET YOUR CORNDOGS!

SEP 17 As any LSU fan - or LSU hater - knows, there is a trend among SEC schools to disparage the school and its football fans by referring (inexplicably) to corndogs. As a play on that, DIG Baton Rouge has assembled here all the locations where one can procure a corndog in Baton Rouge. Nice!

NYT: BOBBY TAKING SHOTS AT TRUMP. YAWN.

SEP 17 Here's the New York Times' advance on last night's clown car performance GOP debate, with special emphasis on the candidates at the kids' table. Of note is our own Bobby Jindal, who of course has been swinging at Trump like Jerry Springer guest upset about DNA results.

HERE'S A POLL THAT'S NOT ANNOYING

SEP 17 If you're tired of answering your cell phone to hear someone who can't pronounce the last names of any of the guys running for governor asking you personal questions about your planned exercise of your right to vote, maybe this poll will be more palatable. So to speak. The Picayune is asking Louisiana cooks to name their favorite pantry ingredients.

NGN: MARY'S WORKING THE DRIVE-THRU

SEP 17 Here's a funny from Neutral Ground News, a satire site devoted to New Orleans topics. It's an interview with former US Senator Mary Landrieu, who, it states, was recently spotted working the drive-thru at Popeye's. Hey - all the chicken you can eat? Not a bad deal.

ASWELL: OCHSNER PATIENTS BETTER LOOK OUT

SEP 17 Blogger Tom Aswell offers his take on the news this week that Kristy Nichols, Bobby Jindal's Chief of Obfuscation and B.S.Administration, is resigning to take a job with Ochsner. She won't be "joining Bobby Jindal in the White House," Aswell says. Joining him for what?

MONEY DOWN THE DRAIN

SEP 17 Time magazine takes a look at super PAC spending in the race for the GOP presidential nomination. There's lots of money being spent in Iowa by Bobby Jindal's PAC, but all that dough didn't get him out of single digits and away from the kid's table at last night's debate.