Items by oyster

• The ESPN post about the soul of new orleans you all loved but I didn't

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  I didn't share everyone else's love for Wright Thompson's heartfelt and well-written ESPN piece on the Saints and the soul of New Orleans. I did like much of it, though. My favorite part was when he slagged on Dallas:
  
  
  All told, [New Orleans] is a city with' [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:37am EST
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• "If I were mayor"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Humid Beings has a good video compilation of citizens offering their thoughts on a topic called "If I were Mayor". Take a look and visit Humid Beings to share your thoughts.
  
  

  If I Were Mayor - EngageNola from The Canary Collective on Vimeo.

  [...]
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  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:15am EST
  by oyster

• Just "wag the dog", Georges

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 10
  After failing to "pet the dog" convincingly, the John Georges for Mayor campaign apparently went for two with a slimy "wag the dog" maneuver that disintegrated on impact. According to Loki's research at Humid City, the Georges team seems to be responsible for a spoof web site that' [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:56pm EST
  by oyster

• Happy Chrismukkah

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 2
  The holiday season is a time for joy and coming together in celebration, like Rob Couhig and Bishop O.C. Coleman did at a Greater New Orleans Republican event some time ago.
  
  Whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah, neither or both, YRHT [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:48pm EST
  by oyster

• What saved us? The answer may be shellfish.

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 5
  Big thanks to Joejoejoe for sending me this gorgeous article about how humans may owe it all to shellfish. Please read the whole thing. Here are some quotes:
  
  A couple hundred thousand years ago, the planet became a much colder and drier place. In Africa, deserts expanded, [...]
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  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:22pm EST
  by oyster

• Conservative bloggers question my manhood and (may) want to kick my ass

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 11
  James Wolcott at Vanity Fair alerted me to the possibility that Jeff Goldstein might want to beat my ass. See, back in the day I got into a roundabout with Jeff G. when he was at Protein Wisdom. Now he's saying that there's about "a half dozen" people [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  by oyster

• This week's Filter post begins with a humorous title

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  
  
  Read it here. [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 2:44pm EST
  by oyster

• Conservative campaign against Mitch Landrieu gaining steam

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 9
  The Dead Pelican's Chad Rogers is pimping more anti-Mitch posts by Avman at the Louisiana Conservative.
  At the beginning of the post, Avman shows a brief video of Mitch Landrieu during a 2006 mayoral debate, featuring an inelegantly chopped quote. The tv graphic indicates that the mayoral [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  by oyster

• As LA's "trendbucking" claims prove overblown, the pressure on the Saints to win increases

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 5
  C.B. Forgotston alerts us to the following T-P article, titled "LA economy facing challenges, experts say". The piece begins:
  
  It's a good thing the high-scoring Saints are providing a positive distraction on the football field this fall, because the Louisiana public outside the Superdome is facing [...]
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 9:09am EST
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• Trouser Trumpet Fanfare for the Common Man

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 6
  I didn't plan it this way, but for dinner last night I had
  
  a salad (how cute)
  two bowls of Lovely's chili with extra kidney beans (uhh... careful big fella)
  a slice of sweet potato pie with whip cream (great caesar's ghost)
  followed by a big glass of enhanced' [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:35am EST
  by oyster

• "As good if not better..."

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  Chad Rogers of the Dead Pelican is a regular guest on Jeff Crouere's entertaining radio show. They were discussing the mayoral race, so I called in and encouraged Rogers to say more about his view of Mitch Landrieu in particular. To my surprise, he said he thought Mitch' [...]
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:03am EST
  by oyster

• Pill the Poor

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  Number of comments: 3
  NYT:
  
  New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 5:21pm EST
  by oyster

• As the philosopher Sgt. Hartman posited in Full Metal Jacket,

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 7
  "... only steers and queers come from Texas."
  
  
  While these categories seem overly restrictive to me, we will note that Houston elected a new Mayor yesterday and Dallas re-elected a sheriff last year.
  
  
  
  A view into the future: Bloomberg covers Annise Parker's' [...]
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:30am EST
  by oyster

• Conservative "Mock Mitch" campaign heats up

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 18
  Avman has a post up at the Louisiana Conservative criticizing Mitch Landrieu. He takes Mitch to task for announcing his candidacy after an event at Cafe Reconcile. Admittedly that was probably a hasty error on Mitch's part. But then, in typically over-the-top fashion, Avman implies that liberal Landrieu supporters [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  by oyster

• Nagin crony to be indicted

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  The Zombie was hinting about this earlier in the week. He gives us a run-down, for those keeping score at home:
  
  This marks the third set of indictments in the past two months of cronies and companies [associated] with Ray Nagin: Meffert/St. Pierre, HSOA/Frank Fradella, and now [...]
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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:24am EST
  by oyster

• Another Vitty-cent guest post on the Tiger Woods affair

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 6
  Hi again.
  
  
  

  
  
  Vitty-cent here. Last week Your Right Hand Thief allowed me to discuss Tiger Woods' serious sin. I've been advising Tiger on how to successfully navigate this unfolding crisis in mistress-management, and with my experience in this realm, I believe [...]

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 7:56pm EST
  by oyster

• Season for giving

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  On rare occasions, I do shameless plugs. As always, caveat emptor. Here are some "do's and dont's" suggestions for holiday gifts:
  
  Calendars are good for keeping track of the messy upcoming collision of Carnival, Football and Political events. Here's a hot Fireman's calendar and a cool' [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 10:24am EST
  by oyster

• New Filter post up

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 6
  
  

  Link!

  
  
  This punk rawk song nicely accompanies the post I think (NSFW language).
  
  "The Killing Blow" by The Suicide Machines [...]
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 1:58pm EST
  by oyster

• Come to oysterhead

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 6
  
  
  Is it wrong to be attracted to Sarah Palin if she wears Maoist gear?
  
  
  
  Rebel girl Rebel girl
  Rebel girl you are the queen of my world
  Rebel girl Rebel girl
  I think I wanna take you home
  I wanna [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:36am EST
  by oyster

• Mitch Landrieu expected to run for Mayor of N.O.

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 9
  Good gracious. I had discounted the recent polling he was doing, and didn't think he would jump in.
  
  This certainly scrambles the political dynamics, and as a longtime fan of Mitch I'm pretty darn pleased. I'm going to think this over before doing much analysis or prognostication.' [...]
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 11:27pm EST
  by oyster

• Bishops in the news

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 16
  Grandmère Mimi feels wounded about the progressive blogosphere's silence regarding the election of the Very Rev. Morris Thompson, to be the next Bishop of the Episcopal Archdiocese of Louisiana.
  
  Grandmère wonders why this news went neglected:
  
  Was our election in Louisiana not controversial enough? Did you' [...]
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 3:50pm EST
  by oyster

• YRHT on Night Shift

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  Number of comments: 4
  I was chatting with some fellow nolabloggers the other night, and the idea of unionized prostitution came up (not from me) and I said "kind of like in Night Shift". This reference dropped with an embarrassing stillborn thud, and it became apparent that not everyone had seen Night Shift. [...]
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  Posted: December 05, 2009, 12:02am EST
  by oyster

• Merry Xe-mas

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  The Confluence has an excellent set of links and videos about Blackwater and Erik Prince that I will reproduce here. Here's the Confluence's summary of the main point:
  
  [T]he biggest news of the day comes from [The Nation reporter] Jeremy Scahill’s revelations about the relationship between Blackwater [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 11:38am EST
  by oyster

• Vitty-cent guest post on Tiger Woods affair

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 7
  Hi.
  
  
  

  
  
  It's me, Vitty-cent, and I'd like to begin this YRHT guest post by wishing all my fellow American citizens a very Merry Christmas. Second, I want to thank oyster for giving me this opportunity to address an important issue: Tiger Woods'' [...]

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 1:44am EST
  by oyster

• No available vaccine for "Saints Fever"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Trust me, I'm a doctor dropped out of a doctoral program.
  
  Houma Courier:
  
  One of three Terrebonne Parish councilmen who went to Monday night’s Saints game has asked that his pay be docked for the public meetings he missed.
  ...
  The Saints played the New England Patriots' [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:57pm EST
  by oyster

• Latest Oyster Filter Post up at Humid Beings

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  Number of comments: 4
  It discusses the car biz, and breaks some news about a dealership in New Orleans.
  
  If you see that the column could use some edits and polishing, you are correct.
  
  ===
  Oh, on a macabre side note: since I linked to this entertaining YRHT post in [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:01pm EST
  by oyster

• John Georges and the crime problem

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  From Stephanie Grace's latest T-P column on mayoral hopeful John Georges:
  
  If he makes it to the mayor's office, Georges said one of his chief focuses would be crime. He wants to have police-run literacy and youth "explorer" programs to better connect with the community. He espouses technology-driven [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 10:17am EST
  by oyster

• He'll pick out a receiver and make you a believer

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 7
  1. According to da Paper, crowd noise at the Football game got up to 120 decibels last night. Any louder than that and the "Who Dat?" chant may become less of a rhetorical boast than a sincere question.
  
  
  "Did you and Daddy have a good time at" [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:49pm EST
  by oyster

• Commentary by David C. Bellinger

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  “Parish President Aaron Broussard is no Donald Trump; Can’t Say, ‘Tim Whitmer ‘You’re Fired!'”
  
  Dear Blogger:
  
  Re: “Whitmer pressed to reveal ties, Jeff official: Give details or resign” by Richard Rainey, New Orleans Times-Picayune, November 25, 2009
  
  With federal subpoenas in Jefferson Parish flying as fast as' [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:03pm EST
  by oyster

• Why so Hostile?

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Since Minor Wisdom has taken the gloves off so early, we will respond with
  
  The natural beauty of The Captain and Tennille, singing an alleged "kids song" about Lake Tahoe, accompanied by a musical muskrat and the charming morning hosts at Fox.
  
  Suffer.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by oyster

• Phrase from stolen emails proves science itself is a hoax

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 10
  I've been told I'm supposed to care about cherry picked, out-of-context quotes from hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia. The only thing I know about the U. of E.A. is that their mascot is the Ragin Cajuns, which is pretty surprising.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 1:12pm EST
  by oyster

• This week in carcass

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  1. Forty million turkey carcasses, give or take, are becoming stock or compost.
  
  
  2. The Dishrag reports:
  
  "Twilight" star Christian Serratos is only 19. But she's already posed naked for peta2, making her the youngest "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" model.
  
  [She]' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:31am EST
  by oyster

• Yule be sorry

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  Before Thanksgiving turkey had even been fully digested, some nolabloggers couldn't wait to begin the "hostilidays". All I can say is... be careful what you wish for.
  
  Adrastos, Minor Wisdom and Humid City have entries. Not bad. [Update: Maitri and Liprap have joined in.][...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:54am EST
  by oyster

• "Green Corps" for the coast

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Mark LaFlaur at Levees not War wrote an exceptional piece advocating a new "Green Corps" effort to save Louisiana's vanishing coast. It's not too long and the topic is important, so go read it.
  
  
  ---
  Speaking of green, last week I was wondering if Jay [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 10:57pm EST
  by oyster

• Quotes of the weak

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  Number of comments: 3
  "Never in recorded history has diversity been anything but a problem."
  
  --Ann Coulter, who doesn't even offer a courtesy flush before dumping another load of hateful pollution into the bowl of public discourse.
  
  
  ===
  Hope Coulter informs the U.S. Marine Corps about "diversity's" unfortunate historical track [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 3:01pm EST
  by oyster

• Oyster Filter post up at Humid Beings

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  The latest Oyster Filter post at Humid Beings is the story of Saints Fan Darvin Moon. [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 12:16pm EST
  by oyster

• "I had the little bastard killed. He was a thorn in my shoe."

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 8
  The Discovery Channel aired a new JFK assassination special the other night titled "Did the Mob Kill JFK?". I thought it was pretty solid, because it heavily featured conspiracy authors Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann, whose work I respect. Even though I plugged their new book, "Legacy" [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:01am EST
  by oyster

• Head is in!

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Noladishu informs us that City Councilwoman Stacy Head will run for re-election. That's great.
  
  "New Orleans has the greatest people in the country who do great things to make a great city," she said in a prepared statement."
  Sounds almost like she's trying to scoop Kenner's [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:10pm EST
  by oyster

• News to some

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  Number of comments: 0
  USA TODAY:
  
  NEW ORLEANS — The recent ruling here by a federal judge confirmed what victims of Hurricane Katrina have been arguing the past four years: the catastrophic floods in 2005 were a manmade disaster, not a natural phenomenon.
  
  The landmark ruling blames negligence by the Army [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:03pm EST
  by oyster

• Artist at work

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 2
  The New Orleans Museum of Art has some hella-cool upcoming exhibits. I already mentioned Skylar Fein's punk-rock "Youth Manifesto", but at the end of January we can expect something magnificent:
  
  This winter the New Orleans Museum of Art kicks off the 2010 contemporary exhibition schedule with' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:48pm EST
  by oyster

• Couhigtown

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 7
  Mayoral candidate Rob "inconceivable" Couhig wants to play "Let's Remind New Orleans":
  
  Asked what qualities they would look for in a new police chief, all [seven mayoral hopefuls] said the New Orleans Police Department needs a new leader identified through a national search.
  ...
  Attorney Rob Couhig reminded [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:57am EST
  by oyster

• WWL reports:LSU fans heading ...

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 0
  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  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"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 6
  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"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  Commenter joejoejoe checks in and alerts us to some specific excerpts from the recent ruling of interest. Joejoejoe writes:
  ===
  
  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 31
  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 0
  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."

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  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