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• WWL reports:LSU fans heading ...

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  WWL reports:
  
  LSU fans heading to Oxford Mississippi may encounter the Ku Klux Klan as they go to the LSU-Ole Miss game on Saturday.
  
  It stems from the university ending a tradition at football games. The band has been instructed to stop playing a medley in which [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:11pm EST
  by oyster

• Banality of "prudent" mission creep

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  Jeffrey has a great post on Vietnam, Afghanistan, LBJ, Obama. Go read it. I want to preserve this quote, I think so much of it:
  
  Listening to these conversations [between LBJ and McNamara], one sees how a slow-building disastrous tragedy like the U.S. war in Vietnam is [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by oyster

• Mayor, criminals must work harder to keep N.O. brand out there

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  Jeffrey finds an article showing significant "trendbucking" in the greater New Orleans area. Trendbucking is a rather dubious economic phenomenon that the local business media seems to treat as an article of faith. Jeffrey has diligently documented the ballyhoo around trendbucking for quite some time, but this recent [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by oyster

• "A man with priorities so far out of whack does not deserve such a fine automobile"

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  From an AP story titled "Texas man drives Bugatti into pond; blames bird"
  
  Police say a low-flying pelican distracted a driver in Texas, causing him to veer off a road and drive his million-dollar sports car into a salt marsh.
  
  La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:54pm EST
  by oyster

• "insouciance, myopia and shortsightedness"

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  Commenter joejoejoe checks in and alerts us to some specific excerpts from the recent ruling of interest. Joejoejoe writes:
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  If you get a chance, read through pages 147-150 in the judge's ruling against ACoE. (189 page PDF here)
  
  A few choice excerpts...
  
  pg. 148
  [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:58am EST
  by oyster

• James "wtf" Perry crushes mayoral frontrunners in debate

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  Mayoral candidate James Perry should scrap the planned "What the F---" ad, and just fashion a campaign commercial using clips from his recent debate performance.
  
  It's rare in politics for things to line up so well, to be in the fortunate position of having the most well-known [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:28pm EST
  by oyster

• The Filter at Humid Beings

  I'm introducing a new weekly blog at Humid Beings called "The Filter". It's going to be more or less like my longer YRHT posts-- witty, link happy, semi-cogent-- but I'll be publishing them each Wednesday (more or less) under "oyster".
  
  The initial effort is about [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:17pm EST
  by oyster

• I've reconsidered my opposition to the death penalty

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  And I'm reviewing my stand on lynching, for good measure.
  
  In an article with the inadequate title of "Ex-wife of jailed official injured in fight", the T-P reports:
  
  The father of Candy Edwards' child has been arrested after an altercation that left the former wife of ex-Gov. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:40am EST
  by oyster

• "Does have a little wang in it. Good, though."

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  Grandmaster Wang titled his latest Saints post with a Morrissey lyric. This was a risky move, to be sure. Morrissey and football have been combined before, with substandard results.
  
  But the Grandmaster is not finished. With hand in glove, reaching deep, Wang pulls out an even gayer [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:51pm EST
  by oyster

• Hard to Resist

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  I won't tune in specifically for this, but I can definitely see myself coming across it and getting totally sucked in.
  
  Didn't Seagal make a film titled "Blood Impulse"? [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by oyster

• Odd

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  Why is Mary Landrieu sending campaign funds to the U.S. Treasury? [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  by oyster

• I love rock'n roll

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  Early in my youth, when I was young, just a little kid, wanting to have fun...
  
  Believe it or not, Joan Jett was something of a musical awakening for me. She absolutely knocked me over when I first heard her on the radio. Through her, I learned that I [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:02am EST
  by oyster

• "Irrefragable evidence"

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  I'd like it if the amateur metallurgists who claim that 9/11 was an [implausibly] grand conspiracy by a hyper-competent government would instead focus their energies on the smaller, truer (and therefore more pernicious) conspiracies inside the aftermath of the attack. With all due respect to Youtube videos that explain' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  by oyster

• 13

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  We Saw That links to a digest about the superstitions surrounding the number thirteen.
  
  LEGEND HAS IT: ...If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by oyster

• Early thanksgiving

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  "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
  
  -- H.L. Mencken
  
  Evidence.
  
  (via SD) [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  by oyster

• "With ingenuity and determination"

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  From The Lens:
  
  The death of daily newspapers has been predicted for decades, but in the past year their decline accelerated. The consequence of diminished investigative reporting is especially dire on the Gulf Coast where communities remain in the throes of post-disaster recovery, with public policies undergoing major [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  by oyster

• Change da "great debate"

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  This year, Saints QB Drew Brees may get the chance to beat both of these guys. [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:23pm EST
  by oyster

• Defeat the radical Metroplexual agenda

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  A NW LA Who Dat is requesting your assistance. Apparently the Shreveport Fox affiliate can't decide whether to broadcast the Saints or the Dallas Cowboys football game this Sunday. So they've created an online poll that will determine the outcome. As the Who Dat fan explains
  
  The rivalry between [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  by oyster

• Why are women getting so hysterical over the passing of Stupak?

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  Certainly Stupak was an ugly entity, seemingly from another era. But if you take the time to inspect Stupak's life, I think you can find a certain bizarre charm to the man. (For example, did you ever see the old curmudgeon get irritated on GSN's High Stakes Poker? Funny [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by oyster

• I don't understand this thing at all

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  Chris Johnston showed us these entertaining "You Suck at Photoshop" tutorials.
  
  I still say Michael at 2 Millionth Web Log does photoshop commentary like no one else. For instance, you might go to hell if you look at this photoshop graphic Michael put together, but [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:08pm EST
  by oyster

• Cao bucks GOP Whip!

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  T-P reports how the LA delegation voted on the House's health care reform bill:
  
  In the end... Rep. Anh "Joseph'' Cao, R-New Orleans, voted "yes" late Saturday night, making him the only Republican in the House to vote for a bill that passed 220-215.
  
  Cao also was'" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:35pm EST
  by oyster

• messin' with sasq, watch

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  WallStreetJackass asks
  
  Is it wrong if this turns me on?
  
  Yes but only slightly.
  
  (Determining the exact amount of "wrongness" will require multiple viewings, so check back for a precise moral diagnosis at a later time.)
  
  
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  * [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by oyster

• Brian Denzer contends "What gets measured gets done"

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  A teaser quote from Denzer's excellent op-ed in the Times Picayune:
  
  Right now, what separates New Orleans from Baltimore is 1,000 miles-- and 10 years of government reform.
  That, and few other things. Like their preference for the "Hon" colloquialism, for instance.
  
  Seriously, go read Brian Denzer's [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by oyster

• Drone Jett and the Black Ops

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  Is "Drone Jett and the Black Ops" the best name you've heard for a punk rawk band, or what? Anyone who wants to use this name for their own upstart punk band (a female lead voice works best), please feel free.
  
  A little snippet of local punk history inspired' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by oyster

• Couhig: the duke of dithering

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  How does Rob Couhig get away with attending forums for mayoral candidates when he won't yet declare whether he's actually going to run?
  
  Recall that in '06 Couhig blasted Mitch Landrieu for taking too long to decide whether to run for mayor. He criticized him on' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:58am EST
  by oyster

• Yes Sir!

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  Chef Who Dat was there to capture a magic moment in the Dome.
  
  Bless Dem Boys... and the Saints, too. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:42pm EST
  by oyster