Mississippi Political Blogwire

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• Patsy Brumfield writes about the Scruggs scandals two years on

  —NMissCommentor

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  Patsy Brumfield has a couple of tw0-years-on thumb sucking pieces about the Scruggs scandals in the Daily Journal today.  One focuses on the state bar leadership with some notes about the law school graduates of the last two years, and the other on law professor Ben Cooper’s ethics [...]

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:24pm EST
  by NMC

• I’ve decided to avoid thinking about football today

  —NMissCommentor

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  … and instead contemplate the infamous no hitter Doc Ellis pitched while tripping on LSD in 1970.  Here’s an animated short with him telling the story in his own words.

  Click here to view the embedded video.

  h/t Bill Gregg

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  by NMC

• Brown, Burton say university mergers a no-go

  —State Street Posts

  Officials: Merging schools won't fly | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "Two influential lawmakers say the most controversial parts of Gov. Haley Barbour's budget recommendations are not likely to make it through the upcoming legislative session. 'Some of the things just don't work,' Rep....
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:54am EST
  

• TV managers suspended over Twitter billboard "snafu"

  —State Street Posts

  Lagniappe: WPMI GM, ND Suspended Over Billboard: "WPMI-TV insiders have confirmed what has been a swirling rumor for the past day — that the station’s general manager and news director were suspended for a week because of an embarrassing billboard. General Manager Shea Grandquest and News Director...
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:50am EST
  

• "A game plan for survival?"

  —State Street Posts

  NewsLab: "Everybody’s looking for the magic formula. What, pray tell, is the business model that will keep independent journalism alive? A new report to be unveiled tomorrow at a Yale University conference has some suggestions, along with a fair amount of scary data about the current state of the...
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:48am EST
  

• Note to the New York Times: The Delta is not Mississippi, but part of it

  —NMissCommentor

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  A negative and badly written New York Times review of John Grisham’s new book of short stories states that he grew up in the Delta (some of the time in the Arkansas Delta, perhaps, where his father’s roots are, I think, but I thought mostly in Southaven, which is [...]

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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:37am EST
  by NMC

• Switzerland: tolerance finds its limit

  —State Street Posts

  Exit polls show Swiss will accept minaret ban: TV - Yahoo! News: "Exit polls show that Switzerland will accept a far-right call for a blanket ban on the construction of minarets, Swiss public television reported Sunday, describing the result as a 'great surprise.'"
  
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:36am EST
  

• Robbie Bell filed a Defendant's Memorandum Brief ...

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  Robbie Bell filed a Defendant's Memorandum Brief in Support of Defendant's Rebuttal to Plaintiff's Response to the Motion to Dismiss November 24 in Hinds County Circuit Court. Robbie Bell is the mother of George Bell, III, who is serving life for murdering and sexually assaulting his girlfriend, Heather Spencer, and [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:31am EST
  

• Five Days No Post

  —Liberal Smash

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  It is probably pretty obvious to regular readers of this tripe that the last two weeks have been filled on my DAINCE card, but that is coming to a close soon. I have been keeping an eye on y'all and I am certainly impressed. Y'all are such well behaved young [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 11:05am EST
  by paul mitchell

• Robbie Bell claims she was held captive

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  Robbie Bell filed a Rebuttal to Plaintiff's Reponse to Motion to Dismiss November 24 in Hinds County Circuit Court. Robbie Bell is the mother of George Bell, III, who is serving life for murdering and sexually assaulting his girlfriend, Heather Spencer, and kidnapping her best friend, Elizabeth Hall, at gunpoint. [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 10:51am EST
  

• Clarion-Ledger finally discovers Steadivest

  —Jackson Jambalaya

  The Clarion-Ledger reported on the Steadivest case this morning, No new information for JJ readers but it did a pretty good job of covering most of the bases. Article [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 9:24am EST