Items by jeffrey

• "Insurers stay rich-- and so do incumbents"

  —Library Chronicles

  Sommerby reviews a New York Times analysis of the Senate Health Reform bill: Meanwhile, in the year since Obama’s election, discussion of health reform has always focused on the claim that health reform would “bend the cost curve”—would at least slow the rate at which health care costs [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 12:52am EST
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• The WTF decade

  —Library Chronicles

  Is it me or does it seem kind of late in the game for this decade retrospective trash journalism to start showing up? Maybe it means the 00s were too weird for the cheap meme-pushers to get a marketable bead on. Or maybe it means that the popular culture has [...]
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:54pm EST
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• Because I'm in a bad mood

  —Library Chronicles

  Time for more holiday cheer
  
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 11:12pm EST
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• Time to start kicking people in the face

  —Library Chronicles

  Unless there's a better way to make this kind of shit stop... [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:52pm EST
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• Hokey Pokey apparenly more of a jazz standard than we thought

  —Library Chronicles

  But there was one foot in and then one foot out. Don't know what that was all about.' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 10:42pm EST
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• Throw them in a landfill

  —Library Chronicles

  Now that she's had time to understand the question, Leslie Jacobs has decided that she actually does have a thought about the mismanagement and possible civil and human rights violations at the juvenile detention facility known as the Youth Study Center. And it is this.
  
  “These students have [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 4:22pm EST
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• "John Georges is now following you on Twitter"

  —Library Chronicles

  I hate the internet [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:59pm EST
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• Imperial war is our favorite movie

  —Library Chronicles

  It's why we keep making it over and over.
  
  Edit: Just in case you don't feel like reading through Greenwald a day after last night's Great Patriotic Pummeling, here's the killer paragraphs:
  
  In The Guardian yesterday, the courageous Malalai Joya -- who might actually deserve the' [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 12:44pm EST
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• Bill Belichcik: Super-genuis

  —Library Chronicles

  What an idiot that guy is. What a petulant arrogant turd. How many 4th downs did he go for just to spite critics? Did he really just quit with 5 minutes left in the game? What a jerk. What an idiot. Goodnight, you loser. [...]
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  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:31pm EST
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• The late post from last week OR The early post from this week

  —Library Chronicles

  It was only last week when we promised to start getting these Saints game re-caps posted before everyone had already moved on to the next game. And yet here we are typing up something we're sure to finish sometime on Saturday or Sunday of the week after the game we're [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 5:00pm EST
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• Teaser 2

  —Library Chronicles

  I've been busy. There may still be a long football post today but it's all bogged down in roast pig recipes and whatnot.
  
  Anyway this week, somebody pointed out to me that the NOLA brake tags for this year happen to be black and gold. I'm not sure if [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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• Waiting for Trump

  —Library Chronicles

  New Orleans: "Just a few hours from Destin!" It's an angle. [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:56am EST
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• Okay too easy, maybe?

  —Library Chronicles

  
  
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:42pm EST
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• Goodness makes the badness go away

  —Library Chronicles

  Right, well it's not even "Cyber Monday" yet and the folks are already into the Hostiliday spirit. And it's going to be a long December from the looks of things. I'd have to say of all the clips I've watched so far, it's hard to top Cher screaming Christmas cheer' [...]
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  Posted: November 29, 2009, 12:39am EST
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• Do the chickens have large talons?

  —Library Chronicles

  Twice within the space of a week, I've spotted these large birds of prey hanging around Uptown New Orleans. Last week, I actually saw one attack and kill a pretty nice sized pigeon on Napoleon Avenue before flying away with the meaty prize in tow. I caught this suspicious character' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 10:54am EST
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• Signs of recovery

  —Library Chronicles

  Before the flood I had made something of a Thanksgiving tradition of linking to a few excerpts from James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me every year. This seems like as good a time as any to revive this tradition.
  
  Thanksgiving is full of embarrassing facts. The Pilgrims [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• Saints teaser post

  —Library Chronicles

  Yes it's Wednesday and I should be done with it by now. But I'm busy cooking today. So for now, in honor of next week's Monday Night opponent, please enjoy the absolute worst 80s football music video of all time.
  
  ' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:53am EST
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• You just want to be on the side that's winning

  —Library Chronicles

  I'd go off on yet another long rant about why most Democrats and most people who call themselves "liberals" now are useless pseudo-intellectual Yuppie turds, but it's more fun and instructive to just make sure everyone is still reading the Daily Howler. Sommerby's "Heathers" series is spot-on. Most of it,' [...]
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 4:32pm EST
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• Firing the crappy coach is what gets results

  —Library Chronicles

  Don't take my word for it. Check out the Hornets.
  
  Of course dumping Miles won't turn things around quite as fast for LSU. They've waited too long to do it. But for God's sake, it's time to do something.
  
  The Tigers were divided over what plays' [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:54pm EST
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• Now can we fire Miles?

  —Library Chronicles

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:13pm EST
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• "We're trying to be prudent"

  —Library Chronicles

  As often happens on Saturday, I'm asking anyone who has not seen it yet to watch this week's Bill Moyers' Journal online. As President Obama decides (after the holiday now) whether to send as many as another 40,000 Americans into an open-ended faraway military action, Moyers shares tapes of [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 10:20am EST
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• So long. And thanks for all the fishwrap

  —Library Chronicles

  It has been reported in several places that a number of Times-Picayune writers have been taking "voluntary buyouts" as the paper's parent company, Newhouse Publications undergoes massive cost-cutting exercises. Among these are veteran contributors Chris Rose, Walt Philbin, Angus Lind, Susan Larson, James Gill and others.
  
  When I [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:08pm EST
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• What if the Mayor really did "get involved in education"

  —Library Chronicles

  Tonight on Informed Sources, Erroll Laborde kind of wished out loud that the Mayor had more direct responsibility for the public school system in New Orleans. One of the candidates currently running has been "involved" as an OPPSB member and also as an advocate for "school choice"
  
  Here, [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:43pm EST
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• Show Cao

  —Library Chronicles

  
  
  Looks like our temporary Congressman is still basking in his 15 minutes media of extra exposure (And also the above-pictured extremely low-budget local "thank you" campaign) stemming from his vote on Health Care Reform in [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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• When Dinosaurs roamed the city

  —Library Chronicles

  I thought I had spotted Mike Mills at Molly's last week. Circumstantial evidence here seems to corroborate the story. [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:47pm EST
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• Un-bucking-canny, this is

  —Library Chronicles

  Could we really be bucking yet another trend? The number of vacant properties in New Orleans has plummeted in the past year -- from nearly 70,000 abandoned lots to about 61,000 -- while blight in several other major American cities has seen a steady uptick, according to a new report [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:45pm EST
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• Why did we never get a pool together on these things

  —Library Chronicles

  Who do you think they're going after now?
  
  Adding: My money's on the Pontchatoula Ponzi scheme... just thankfully not in it.
  
  Update: Dambala thinks it's gonna be about Billboard Ben.' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:40am EST
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• Question

  —Library Chronicles

  Could it be that Byron Scott was actually a crappier coach than Chris Paul was a valuable player? [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:29am EST
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• The Federalness of the Flood

  —Library Chronicles

  Corps' operation of MR-GO doomed homes in St. Bernard, Lower 9th Ward, judge rules The failure of the Corps to recognize the destruction that the MRGO had caused and the potential hazard that it created is clearly negligent on the part of the Corps," said U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval'" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:45pm EST
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• I'm a f*#!%ing Eagle Scout, bra

  —Library Chronicles

  One more thing about that Perry ad. Does anyone else notice the comic dissonance between the (implied) cursing and Perry's touting of the fact that he is an "Eagle Scout"? Are they even allowed to curse? Does this sound like a Ballzack lyric to you?
  
  Update: As the' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:23am EST
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• This should be the regular uniform

  —Library Chronicles

  Okay the design is a bit garish but the color scheme is far more genuinely New Orleans than the insulting "Creole blue" [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:29pm EST
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• Unbelievable Douchebag of the Day

  —Library Chronicles

  James Perry's f*#%ing campaign manager, Alex Morgan.
  
  “The Times-Picayune missed the mark on its description,” said Perry campaign manager Alex Morgan. “Obviously you can’t run ads with the word f-u-c-k in them,” he added, spelling out the word so as not to offend. “It’s an ad that expresses' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:06pm EST
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• Start working on your fake sandwich artistry

  —Library Chronicles

  If I were living Karen Gadbois' fake life I would have at least tried to get a fake job at Ray Nagin's fake Gene's Po-boys. Would have solved the whole fake problem right there.
  
  Doesn't work so well in real life, though. But still.. maybe Leslie Jacobs can [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:40pm EST
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• The illusion of choice

  —Library Chronicles

  DeBerry is far too kind here. It should be obvious by now that the byzantine charter school system is discriminatory against low-income families and the most at-risk children. It's a scheme set up deliberately to benefit parents and children with financial resources and/or social connections by institutionalizing their segregation [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:05pm EST
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• Back to Basics or The Thankless Job of Winning 9 in a Row

  —Library Chronicles

  We're going to try something a little different this week. It has become our custom to introduce these game re-caps with an amusing item or two about breast cancer or alcoholism or theoretical physics or swine flu or, well, whatever. But, in recent weeks, we've come to feel like we've' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:59pm EST
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• Mark Shields wants a President who knows how to Ram It

  —Library Chronicles

  Good God [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:28pm EST
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• Does anybody have Jason David's phone number?

  —Library Chronicles

  It's going to be an interesting rest of the season. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:10pm EST
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• The Incalculable Wrongness of ... blah blah blah (Part 2)

  —Library Chronicles

  We now return to our two part series on the heroic struggle to stave off the prevention of the possible destruction of the universe, or something like that.
  
  Saints vs Panthers (Second half observations)
  
  How the game was won: I hate hate hate to do this but I [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:49am EST
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• The Incalculable Wrongness of Yellow Blog Football Prognostication or How I Fought Off the Demon and Managed to Save the Day for All of Us (Part 1)

  —Library Chronicles

  Note: The first half of the title here is a riff on the title of last week's unpublished football post which would have read "The Incalculable Wrongness of Bob Roesler or Why the Saints are Guaranteed to Lose This Week". As you can see, there's a lot of stuff going [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 4:30pm EST
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• More analysis of the GNOCDC housing report

  —Library Chronicles

  We are pleased to refer you to The Lens [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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• Bye, Byron

  —Library Chronicles

  You'd think they would have taken care of this a few months back when it could have done some good. ' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:29pm EST
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• Sophisiticating up the corruption: Baltimore edition

  —Library Chronicles

  It was over two years ago now when Robert Cerasoli told us our corruption wasn't "sophisticated" enough. “Corruption in other cities is so sophisticated (because of their rules) you wouldn’t find briberies. It’s very unusual you’d find someone passing money in an office somewhere.”
  
  And it was only' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 10:09am EST
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• Jefferson Parish Carnival Krewes do not think very creatively

  —Library Chronicles

  I don't see what the problem is here.
  
  Not wanting to compete with the biggest game in football, and potentially the biggest game in New Orleans Saints history, Metairie’s Krewe of Rhea has canceled its 2010 Carnival parade on Feb. 7, Super Bowl Sunday.
  
  Nobody knows how' [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:31am EST
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• Ray Nagin's laissez-faire recovery in progress

  —Library Chronicles

  Are they still paying big-time wages at Gene's Po-boy's?
  
  There is a glut of vacant apartments in New Orleans but the people who need them can't afford them, according to a study released today by a pair of research organizations.
  
  The study estimates that by next year,' [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:33pm EST
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• Feel free to do it again

  —Library Chronicles

  Sternly worded letter passes expiration date. Two-and-a-half years after putting Tulane University on its blacklist for post-Hurricane Katrina personnel actions, a national organization of professors has lifted its censure because, an official said Tuesday, it approves of what Tulane has done to correct the situation. In other words, they just [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 10:29pm EST
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• Sleepy Town Daily

  —Library Chronicles

  I'm so old I can remember when there was room at the T-P for Angus Lind and Chris Rose. You got one slice-of-life New Orleans column for (mostly boomer) natives and one in a similar vein for transplant faux-hipster douchebags. I wasn't a Rose fan but I will say the [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 8:56pm EST
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• High comedy

  —Library Chronicles

  I'm listening to the Les Miles Show while I'm cooking right now. Every caller wants to beat up on the game officials from Saturday's game. Les doesn't want to get fined for agreeing with them. Very entertaining. [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:30pm EST
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• Um... I think you just did

  —Library Chronicles

  Former Enron executive and Mayoral candidate Troy Henry on why his business-reform background doesn't make him another Ray Nagin: "People judge you for who you are," he said. "Nobody says (campaign opponent and state Sen.) Ed Murray is a crook because Bill Jefferson is going to jail. I think'" [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:23pm EST
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• It's hard to hold a candle...

  —Library Chronicles

  Well this is neat. Whoever heard of a hurricane in mid-November? But then whoever heard of an 8-0 Saints team?
  
  I promise to post about this game. It was a fun one. [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:41pm EST
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• There's a reason the SEC imposes heavy fines for criticizing the officials

  —Library Chronicles

  They are horrible. I know I'm saying this at the end of an LSU loss that can be directly laid on at least 4 major blown calls but this applies to SEC officials this entire season. They are horrible. The SEC has decided the way to solve the problem of' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:06pm EST
  by jeffrey