World Class New Orleans

• Geeky Comparison

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  Just sayin'. From the terrible Saints records of the 1970s to 12-0. As Buddy in the Jumpsuit said, "It all started with a supernova that destroyed Romulus."
  
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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:43am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• The Feds and Coastal Restoration

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  The T-P tells us that the feds are taking a "fresh look" at restoration efforts.
  Good, but now is the time for action.
  Now. Now. Now.
  Which is a greater threat to my family and me? Al Qaeda? Or diminishing coastlines?
  Wetlands: the fundamental homeLAND security issue.
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  Posted: December 07, 2009, 7:10am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Jared Diamond Makes a Useful Analogy

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  Professor Diamond's essay in the NY Times compares the stupidity of corporations who refuse to spend short-term money on long-term sustainability to the federal government's negligent treatment of New Orleans over many years:
  Economic reasons furnish the strongest motives for sustainability, because in the long run (and often in [...]
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  Posted: December 06, 2009, 7:34am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Is Obama a Saints WR or a Pats DB?

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  In this video, is the President catching a pass from Drew Brees, or is the President being a total weenie and stepping in front of a pass intended for a kid?
  In any case, it's good to see Mike McKenzie in a Saints uni in a commercial whilest knowing he's' [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 9:26pm EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Dave Dixon: World Class New Orleans Visionary

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  In the 1960s and 70s, New Orleans and Louisiana took a risk by investing in the Louisiana Superdome. There was strong and principled opposition to the project. I have no doubt that there was corruption somewhere in the process of construction.
  In the end, though, the result was a world [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:22am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Good Corps / Bad Corps

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  One the one hand, the Corps wants to be able to inspect levees while the river water is high. This need threatens the river parish bonfires. Maybe I'm a Scrooge, but levees seem pretty important to me, so on the face of it I'm glad the Corps is looking [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 7:39am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Join my campaign this week: They Aren't the Patriots

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  No, the New England football squad are either "the Pats" or "the Past."
  When I think of the Pats, I think of old times.
  Pats starring a quarterback named Grogan.
  Pats getting beat down in the Louisiana Superdome.
  Past indeed.
  When I think of Our New Orleans [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:39am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• 50 Percent More Fun in Section 635

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  The third Dillyberto brother will join Berto and me for the Saints-Patriots game on Monday Night Football.
  And he will be properly attired. See below for my order today. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:53am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Time for Payback

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  Look, revenge is a very unattractive thing, but I just gotta get this out.
  I spent three terrible, horrible, no good years in the state of Missouri. Those were the three worst years of my life.
  Then I returned to New Orleans, and a few years later had to endure [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 6:39am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Pregame Grilled Oysters at Lee Circle

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  This is what it looked like at Lee Circle (Tivoli Circle) yesterday at around 2:15 p.m.
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  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:01pm EST
  by Mr. Clio

• Saints vs. Falcons = Parasol's vs. Appleby's

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  Do it, Drew. Crank it up.
  Charles Grant, show your homeboys what you've become in New Orleans.' [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 6:15am EST
  by Mr. Clio

• What I Did During the Saints Win Over the Dolphin

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  Daneeta showed me the link to the Josephnils blog, which documents the way we watched the Saints beat the Dolphins--on the porch, while shucking, eating, or grilling and eating, oysters. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:04pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Are raw oysters a bigger threat to health than McDonald's fries?

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  According to this excellently placed (front-page) story from the T-P, 15 people--many of them already sick from something else--die from eating raw oysters each year.
  This occurs in a country with over 300 million people, many of whom are overweight. Tens of thousands of us die each year because [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 7:18am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Best Op-Ed Page in America Today; Thanks, Times-Picayune

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  Although the overarching purpose of this blog is to point to a positive vision of what New Orleans can and should be, sometimes I use that vision to criticize our city's newspaper titan, the Times-Picayune. (It's a "titan" because it's the only one.)
  After the storm, the Times-Picayune and its' [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 7:54am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• World Class Cartoon Time

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  What a beautiful thing by the Preservation Hall gang and Mr. James Tancill.
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Sustainable Recovery: Carpetbaggers Need Not Apply

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  Ed Blakely is gone (that's old news), but his departure and other things I'm seeing help me to conclude that we are arriving at a significant and stirring phase of the resurrection of our region.
  
  We are more than four years beyond the levee failures that temporarily crushed [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 9:14am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• The Most Important Stories Run on the Last Page of the Sports Section in the Times-Picayune

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  A few days ago, the Times-Picayune ran one of those stories that should change the outlooks (or confirm them) of any thinking people on the planet.
  The story ran on the back of the Sports section.
  We are sinking. The Gulf is rising. And our congressional delegation (ALL OF [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:07am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Battle Over Low-Income Housing Reveals Post-Katrina Anxiety - NYTimes.com

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  Battle Over Low-Income Housing Reveals Post-Katrina Anxiety - NYTimes.com [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2009, 10:56pm EDT
  by Mr. Melpomene

• ESPN Radio Teases Us Who Dats

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  The Mardi Gras beads are a bit much, but this made me smile anyway.
  
  I couldn't get the You Tube video to embed correctly, so here's the link. [...]
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  Posted: October 02, 2009, 6:36am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Thanks for Zeitoun, Mr. Eggers

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  I finished Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, during my trip to New York this week.
  I was on a plane from JFK to Memphis as I read the last 50 pages. I couldn't swallow, such was the lump in my throat.
  I think it would be a striking read' [...]
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  Posted: September 26, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Great. The T-P is now covering fake games.

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  What up with this? [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 11:41pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• More Lyrical Whimsy from Saints DE Bobby McCray

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  As part of the Occasional Gridiron Poetry Series at World Class New Orleans, we present a new poem by Saints defensive end Bobby McCray, as taken from today's Times-Picayune:
  So until Monday afternoon,we can still be high off our victory.
  You know,talk about it,talk to your parents about[...]
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  Posted: September 17, 2009, 7:13am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• David Byrne's Essay on the Ideal City, Biking, and New Orleans

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  Berto and I are preparing today to ride our bicycles to the Superdome tomorrow for Our New Orleans Saints' first regular season game. Fittingly, at breakfast this morning I read a great essay by David Byrne in today's Wall Street Journal, "A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City."
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  Posted: September 12, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• I will get more and better work done today because of Steve Gleason

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  Why? Because he said all of this, but particularly this (in remembering the Greatest Play in Saints History):So I remember that moment. And I remember thinking -- as I broke through the line -- that I wasn't going to get there. I was like: I don't think I'm going' [...]
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  Posted: September 11, 2009, 7:25am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• I Sent a Message to Senator David Vitter Using His Advertisement on the NY Times

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  . . . though I'm not sure it's the message he wanted.
  I was peacefully reading an article at nytimes.com when I saw his ad in the sidebar. The ad was an attempted slander of Charlie Melancon. I didn't like the looks of it.
  So I clicked on the ad--I' [...]
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  Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:25pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Congrats to Dambala

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  I was privileged to meet him last week at Rising Tide IV.
  Now it looks as though he's in for an adventure dealing with City Hall people.
  Dambala is a world class part of the new New Orleans.
  The City Hall people described in the T-P article' [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:08am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Big Week for World Class New Orleans

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  Why?
  1. I'm a practicing Catholic, which means I'm not very good at it. But our city took a step forward out of its leadership crisis when Archbishop Alfred Hughes stepped down. (Can you imagine? The city has gone through the failure of federal levees, Katrina, utter chaos, and the [...]
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  Posted: August 21, 2009, 6:32am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Speaking Through (the flashing of) the Barrel of a Gun

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  On WWL 870 radio today, I caught the tail end of a talk that Tommy Tucker was doing with the director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The director was talking (via phone) about how it goes against common sense to have people showing up to townhall meetings [...]
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  Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:22am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• A Modest Proposal for the Nicholls State Colonels

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  (Thanks to the T-P for highlighting this amusing story.)
  
  
  Look, we shouldn't be mad at the graphic design people who came up with this:
  Because when your mascot is a Colonel, there really aren't too many good places to go. After all, you started [...]
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  Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:41am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Football GOLD, Jerry! GOLD!

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  The Wangmaster is producing spectacular stuff at moosedenied, but few are commenting on it.
  This bothers me. [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 8:00am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Mayor's Race

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  I'm not blindly jumping on to the James Perry bandwagon(as some might want to accuse me of doing). However, I've done some research on him, and I like what I see so far. At least he's using the language of progressive politics. And he seems intelligent, interested in' [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2009, 7:53am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Civility Really Is What Separates Us from Packs of Howling, Growling Dogs

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  Cousin Pat chimes in elegantly and effectively on all the screaming that's been going on.
  
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  Posted: August 08, 2009, 10:31am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• The Wisdom of Saints DE Bobby McCray

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  From Mister McCray's training camp memoirs, which one day will be reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and the Times Literary Supplement, but for now is being excerpted in the Times-Picayune:
  This is training camp. No leaving the hotel. I call it jail. If you need something,' [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 7:05am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Cash for Clunker Levees

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  This brief post grows out of a comment my brother (let's call him Mr. Thalia) made to me on Facebook.
  
  Where's the urgency to provide cash for clunker levees and cash for oil-industry-clunkered wetlands?
  
  Now that the T-P has taken the Saints off of the front page and [...]
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  Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:56am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• The Times-Picayune and nola.com Have Lost a Sense of Proportion

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  Look, I'm as big of a Saints fan as there is, and perhaps my brother Saints fan Berto will disagree with me, but here goes:
  
  I'm uncomfortable with the over-prominence of Saints coverage in the paper and on nola.com.
  
  The Sports section (as far as I'm concerned) can' [...]
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  Posted: August 03, 2009, 7:13am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Mayor's Race

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  Just sitting around on a Sunday morning at the beach, trying to get this here blog restarted.
  
  For me, the big issues that our next mayor will need to deal with (since the current guy hasn't), need to be:
  
  1. Crime
  2. Housing
  3. The drainage situation directly' [...]
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  Posted: August 02, 2009, 7:46am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• NOLA Gets the Fox News Treatment

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  Normally, I wouldn't like that, but this is okay:
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2009, 9:32am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• World Class Innovation and Collaboration in NOLA

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  Entrepreneur magazine already featured our city on its cover this month, and now the New York Times has picked up the story too.
  
  I am most inspired by these lines:
  
  “The thing about this city, like no other — everybody wants everyone to succeed,” said Seema [...]
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  Posted: July 30, 2009, 6:56am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• It's a Bad Day for NOLA When Shelley Midura Steps Back

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  I'm an unapologetic fan of Shelley Midura.
  
  This is a bad day for World Class New Orleans.
  
  She's World Class.
  
  I liked her anyway, but I had the privilege of attending a lunch at the World Trade Center when the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia to the' [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2009, 5:53pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• A Toxic Culture for the Heart

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  Governor Mark Sanford's public meltdown and Americans' reaction to it are good evidence of a basic illness in our popular culture (and our political culture as well). Actually, let's just call it an illness in our culture as a whole.
  
  I suppose that most of us (me included) have' [...]
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  Posted: June 27, 2009, 9:21am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Governor Mark Sanford is a Hybrid of Ray Nagin and Bill Clinton

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  Gov. Sanford at a press conference: "I spent the last five days of my life crying in Argentina."
  
  First, that's a GREAT title for a country song.
  
  Second, can't this guy save the blabber for the shrink's couch? Sort your life out, please, but don't do it on [...]
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  Posted: June 25, 2009, 9:43am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Comparative Beers

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  I find Lazy Magnolia's Indian Summer Ale to be FAR superior to Abita's Satsuma Harvest Wit.
  
  I am a BIG fan of Abita, but the Satsuma stuff just doesn't do it for me. I'm not a fruit and beer guy, and this particular brew from Abita tastes [...]
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  Posted: June 20, 2009, 6:39pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Naked Bikers in French Quarter

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  This opens up all sorts of possibilities for us in the Black and Gold Bike Patrol.
  
  I hope that these people were able to display some Saints pride somewhere on their persons.
  
  I wonder if anybody had a fleur de lis hardhat on.
  
  If we [...]
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  Posted: June 14, 2009, 9:34am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Do-ers, Trek, New New Orleans

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  1. From the NY Times Magazine today:
  “How do I say this delicately?” [Senator Max Baucus] asked. “President Bush, he liked being president. You know, there are be-ers, and there are doers. And I think he liked being president, as opposed to doing.” Obama, on the other hand, strikes Baucus [...]
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  Posted: June 07, 2009, 9:09am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Even Snarky Stacy Head Should Be Forgiven a Little Indiscretion

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  Look, I'm not a big fan of Stacy Head. Not a fan at all. I didn't vote for her in the original race for the seat.
  
  But cheesh. This email business ain't right.
  
  Like any redblooded American, I read the few emails posted here at nola.com.
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  Posted: May 14, 2009, 7:06am EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Privacy and Forgiveness (Where Necessary or Appropriate)

  Look, I'm not a big fan of Stacy Head. Not a big fan at all. I didn't vote for her in the original race for the seat.
  
  But cheesh. This email business ain't right.
  
  Like any redblooded American, I read the few emails posted here at nola.com.[...]
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  Posted: May 13, 2009, 10:54pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• What NOLA Looks Like

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  If you squint just a little . . .
  
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  Posted: May 11, 2009, 10:31pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Steps Have Been Taken

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  I have been informed that certain fans of the Black and Gold have initiated efforts with benign supernatural forces to ensure a Black and Gold Super Bowl in Miami 2010.
  Last year, when similar efforts were made, the Saints went from 3-5 in the Dome to 5-2 (6-2 if you [...]
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  Posted: May 10, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Two Saints Players Make Like Norman Robinson

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  So two benchwarming Saints players made like Norman Robinson last night by urinating publicly in an Elmwood apartment complex parking lot.
  Lovely.
  Not world class.
  A few brief thoughts:Let he among us who has not sinned thusly, cast the first stone.I can almost guarantee that this kind of [...]
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  Posted: May 03, 2009, 2:21pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio

• Ashley Morris Day

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  I had thought that tomorrow was Ashley Morris Day. But Hana reminds us it's today.
  I have more to say about our champion, the man who lived the Warrior's Code. (Thanks for that song, Greg. You cost me 99 well-spent cents on iTunes that will lift my [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2009, 2:29pm EDT
  by Mr. Clio