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Posts In 5/2010
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Oyster moves to The Lens
1093 days ago
I'm going to become the next opinion blogger for The Lens. So, heartiest self-congratulations to me!You may say: Good for…
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Macondo Kids
1094 days ago
In the traditon of Katrina Kids and the Fema rap, are we going to have any federal sing-alongs to help…
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Commentary by David C. Bellinger
1094 days ago
“We Get the Government we Deserve, or the Oil ‘catastrophe’ was Waiting to Happen so Don’t Blame BP!” by David…
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Timshel!
1094 days ago
One of my all-time favorite Louisiana bloggers returns from hiatus to vividly express his frustration with the oilcano polluting our…
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Federal Flood Cocktail recipe
1095 days ago
2 parts purple kool aid from the vat of formaldehyde we got in the back store room with Huey Long's…
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bunny
1095 days ago
Karen alerts us to this Wapo Investigations blog post:The Houston-based company's efforts to repair Navy facilities following Hurricanes Ivan and…
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Untitled
1095 days ago
So the new recovery czar Douglas O'Dell wants to know where all the hundreds of billions went to. Isn't that…
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Gun rental
1095 days ago
The Gambit Weekly has had a string of excellent feature articles, and this week is no exception. Alison Fensterstock's piece…
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Untitled
1095 days ago
Standing on the street at night, I notice Marcus looking at something. Far, far into the distance, I can barely…
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"Imported brand of sin"
1095 days ago
Bad Bet on the Bayou pg 98What they objected to was Hemmeter's imported brand of sin. George Schmidt, a bandleader,…
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Race for the prize
1095 days ago
I agree with Dambala's belief that "race" is a myth, and that race and culture are confused, often purposely (by…
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Piss off, Ambassador
1095 days ago
Newsweek Ambassador Crocker:I think many people understand by now that this fundamental mistake—underestimating local rivalries and the intensity of resistance…
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Untitled
1095 days ago
Thomas Frank WSJ:Conservatives of the 1930s, led by an upper-crust outfit called the American Liberty League, certainly felt that way.…
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extremist rhetoric against obama
1095 days ago
Southern Baptist pastor prays for Obama's death.GOP House member says "Obama is an enemy of humanity".Glenn Beck says Obama is…
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GOP pantheon
1095 days ago
Click the link to GOP.com's "Republican Heroes: see them all"So glad that there was an official, exhaustive collection at our…
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High Five
1095 days ago
The Washington Monthly reviewed "Tinsel", an observant book about the surbabanite culture in the Metroplex during Christmastime. It quoted this…
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Who dat say dey never seen a 'dat'?
1095 days ago
Balloon Juice reminds us of this oldy but goody.And if by some chance you are still not convinced, how ‘bout…
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Nixon neutralizing enemies
1095 days ago
“He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the…
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Hitchens decalogue
1095 days ago
Read the whole thing if you haven't, but I quite like this line in Hitchens "The New Ten Commandments" piece…
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"I wish... the Constitution vindicated limited govt. But it doesn't"
1095 days ago
I direct everyone (but especially the so-called "constitutional conservatives" who keep citing the tenth amendment in opposition to health insurance…
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wikileaks tape shows that we need to watch more war video
1095 days ago
Pat says "Drink in these images. Drink them deep. This is war, and war is hell." Indeed.There's a false distinction…
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Commentary by David C. Bellinger
1095 days ago
Re: David Vitter's prostitute scandal is target of Louisiana Democratic Party video, New Orleans Times-Picayune, By Bruce Alpert, April 28,…
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Fit and finish
1095 days ago
Over the past two years, I've battled with the notion of saying something at YRHT that would do Ashley Morris…
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"Flagship" school my ass
1095 days ago
Good.
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"A horrible mistake"
1095 days ago
Marty Beckerman flags this revealing disclosure from the Cato liberty blog:In a Thursday panel at Cato on conservatism and war,…
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Tea Party comes full circle, bites tail, begins self-devouring
1097 days ago
"Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden flag poster by fr_slingsandarrowsThe AP reports on the latest remarks from Tea Party darling Dr.…
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"The rat symbolizes obviousness"
1097 days ago
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Meat is...
1097 days ago
Thanks to my friend Jelly, who introduced me to the Front Yard Farmer blog which chronicles a New Orleanian's adventures…
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Sludge Report
1097 days ago
WVUE Fox 8BP conceded Thursday that more oil than it estimated is gushing into the Gulf of Mexico as heavy…
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Yikes
1098 days ago
Noladder points us to a Levees.org interview with Dr. Ivor Van Heerden, who is suing LSU for wrongful termination. According…
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Beyond Priceless
1098 days ago
Michael Homan presents: Geauxjira.
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"Your point is not well taken, because that is not what it means. I will refuse."
1098 days ago
Associated Press:BP said Wednesday it hopes to begin shooting a mixture known as drilling mud into the blown-out well in…
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Awaiting Permission
1099 days ago
Since Katrina/FF, Gov. Bobby Jindal has often told audiences around the country that when it comes to dealing with bureacratic…
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Election results
1099 days ago
David Weigel of the Washington Post reports on the following electoral shellacking in Arkansas, which may be of local interest:In…
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It feels like the first time...
1099 days ago
Must admit, I liked Chris Rose's Gambit column this week.
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Good morning. It's 10:59 in the A.M., and that means this is Perspectives
1101 days ago
I'm your host, Lionel Oyster and here is a collection of Macondo oil gusher opinions that I found interesting, amusing,…
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60 Minutes story on Deepwater Horizon disaster
1101 days ago
The interview with Deepwater Horizon's chief electronics technician Mike Williams is tremendously compelling television.Watch CBS News Videos OnlineProfessor Bea: "Houston,…
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Yay! BP sucks hard
1101 days ago
The T-P has some very encouraging news:In the first step in nearly a month toward stopping a massive Gulf of…
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Audits before plaudits, please
1102 days ago
A YRHT source passes along this interesting local news story from Nashville:Last year, then-Police Chief Ronal Serpas ridiculed a Metro…
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Bring it ON!
1103 days ago
Via Suspect Device, we learnA group representing big industry in Louisiana that contends actions by the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic…
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Concentrated hilarity
1103 days ago
Huge credit to Adrastos, who posted this tremendously entertaining Daily Show clip of Lewis Black obliterating Glenn Beck over his…
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Fear of Iced Tea is the Mindkiller
1104 days ago
Wapo:The oil emerging from the reservoir nearly four miles below the surface is on the lighter end of the density…
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Ever closer to the worst case scenario...
1104 days ago
Apologies for the long excerpts from this NYT story, but this is important.Two weeks ago, the government put out a…
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We're Saved!
1104 days ago
There's too many ways to go with this one. Waterworld, Bodyguard, JFK... Feel free to have at it in the…
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I was waiting for this one
1104 days ago
Weeks after the spill began, Jim Brown decides to join the online debate in his latest column published on various…
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Catching a bad date in mid-air
1104 days ago
Twelve years ago today, I went on a first date with my future wife. It got off to a bad…
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Noles in the news
1105 days ago
Florida State University graduates and attendees have been in the local news the past couple of days.1) Yesterday the Times…
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Family values is the new gay
1105 days ago
Josh Marshall asks:Who's more likely to be gay? Unmarried, middle-aged woman or televangelist/family values pol? Seems like a toss up.But…
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Forgotten flood
1106 days ago
Good for Taylor Swift, who donated $500k to flood-recovery efforts in Nashville. You can donate ten bucks by texting RED…
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Worser and worser
1107 days ago
From Noladder, we find this MSNBC article which is (mis)titled "How bad can the spill get?" I don't dwell on…
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