Items 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Latest Oyster Filter Post up at Humid Beings

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  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

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  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

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  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

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  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

• Hard to Resist

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  
  
  I won't tune in specifically for this, but I can definitely see myself coming across it and getting totally sucked in.
  
  Didn't Seagal make a film titled "Blood Impulse"? [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 12:14pm EST
  by oyster

• Odd

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  Number of comments: 6
  Why is Mary Landrieu sending campaign funds to the U.S. Treasury? [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  by oyster

• I love rock'n roll

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 7
  Early in my youth, when I was young, just a little kid, wanting to have fun...
  
  Believe it or not, Joan Jett was something of a musical awakening for me. She absolutely knocked me over when I first heard her on the radio. Through her, I learned that I [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:02am EST
  by oyster

• "Irrefragable evidence"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 4
  I'd like it if the amateur metallurgists who claim that 9/11 was an [implausibly] grand conspiracy by a hyper-competent government would instead focus their energies on the smaller, truer (and therefore more pernicious) conspiracies inside the aftermath of the attack. With all due respect to Youtube videos that explain' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  by oyster

• 13

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 3
  We Saw That links to a digest about the superstitions surrounding the number thirteen.
  
  LEGEND HAS IT: ...If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 12:30am EST
  by oyster

• Early thanksgiving

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  "In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
  
  -- H.L. Mencken
  
  Evidence.
  
  (via SD) [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 5:02pm EST
  by oyster

• "With ingenuity and determination"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 9
  From The Lens:
  
  The death of daily newspapers has been predicted for decades, but in the past year their decline accelerated. The consequence of diminished investigative reporting is especially dire on the Gulf Coast where communities remain in the throes of post-disaster recovery, with public policies undergoing major [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 3:39pm EST
  by oyster

• Change da "great debate"

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  Number of comments: 1
  This year, Saints QB Drew Brees may get the chance to beat both of these guys. [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 1:23pm EST
  by oyster

• Defeat the radical Metroplexual agenda

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 10
  A NW LA Who Dat is requesting your assistance. Apparently the Shreveport Fox affiliate can't decide whether to broadcast the Saints or the Dallas Cowboys football game this Sunday. So they've created an online poll that will determine the outcome. As the Who Dat fan explains
  
  The rivalry between [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:26pm EST
  by oyster

• Why are women getting so hysterical over the passing of Stupak?

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 2
  Certainly Stupak was an ugly entity, seemingly from another era. But if you take the time to inspect Stupak's life, I think you can find a certain bizarre charm to the man. (For example, did you ever see the old curmudgeon get irritated on GSN's High Stakes Poker? Funny [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by oyster

• I don't understand this thing at all

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 13
  Chris Johnston showed us these entertaining "You Suck at Photoshop" tutorials.
  
  I still say Michael at 2 Millionth Web Log does photoshop commentary like no one else. For instance, you might go to hell if you look at this photoshop graphic Michael put together, but [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:08pm EST
  by oyster

• Cao bucks GOP Whip!

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 32
  T-P reports how the LA delegation voted on the House's health care reform bill:
  
  In the end... Rep. Anh "Joseph'' Cao, R-New Orleans, voted "yes" late Saturday night, making him the only Republican in the House to vote for a bill that passed 220-215.
  
  Cao also was'" [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:35pm EST
  by oyster

• messin' with sasq, watch

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  WallStreetJackass asks
  
  Is it wrong if this turns me on?
  
  Yes but only slightly.
  
  (Determining the exact amount of "wrongness" will require multiple viewings, so check back for a precise moral diagnosis at a later time.)
  
  
  ---
  * [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 6:59pm EST
  by oyster

• Brian Denzer contends "What gets measured gets done"

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  A teaser quote from Denzer's excellent op-ed in the Times Picayune:
  
  Right now, what separates New Orleans from Baltimore is 1,000 miles-- and 10 years of government reform.
  That, and few other things. Like their preference for the "Hon" colloquialism, for instance.
  
  Seriously, go read Brian Denzer's [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:22pm EST
  by oyster

• Drone Jett and the Black Ops

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 1
  Is "Drone Jett and the Black Ops" the best name you've heard for a punk rawk band, or what? Anyone who wants to use this name for their own upstart punk band (a female lead voice works best), please feel free.
  
  A little snippet of local punk history inspired' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  by oyster

• Couhig: the duke of dithering

  —Your Right Hand Thief

  Number of comments: 0
  How does Rob Couhig get away with attending forums for mayoral candidates when he won't yet declare whether he's actually going to run?
  
  Recall that in '06 Couhig blasted Mitch Landrieu for taking too long to decide whether to run for mayor. He criticized him on' [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:58am EST
  by oyster