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Personal Note

I hope it’s OK to get a little personal and tell you that, very sadly, this past week I had to say goodbye to a really wonderful best friend. A best friend who in 2008 made it to First Draft … with a...

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The Fog Of Historical Pictures: Mayoral Mustache Edition

Our readers know by now that I love regular features like your hippie granny loves patchouli oil. I almost said like a pig loves slop but I’m trying to avoid cornpone imagery. Next thing you know I...

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Hysteria Is As American As Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Chevrolet

It’s happening again: the hard men of the Republican party are scared to death of Syrian refugees. They’ve turned it into a meme and a campaign issue. The best response I’ve seen thus far came from...

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Friday Catblogging: Upside Down

Here’s Della Street up against her favorite wall with semi-devil eyes;

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Just take that thing off the wall

In his book “Dealing,” author Terry Pluto detailed a pivotal moment in the rebuilding of the Cleveland Indians franchise. The team had begun rebuilding after a long period of prosperity, using young...

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Louisiana Politics: The Night Before Gooberpalooza 2015

John Bel Edwards gives David Vitter the stink eye. Photograph via the Advocate. The Gret Stet Goober race has been a helluva ride. I’ll take it over a fucking roller coaster any day. I’ve never...

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Saturday Odds & Sods: After The Fire

Artwork by Keith Haring. It’s election day in the Gret Stet of Louisiana. Rachel Maddow likes to call our Saturday elections weird but I think the proper word is sensible. In theory, it should boost...

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Louisiana Politics: Gret Stet Goober Race Wrap Up Act One

Homemade yard sign in Uptown New Orleans. Photo by Dr. A. It was the most fun I’ve had watching election results since 2008. John Bel Edwards was elected Gret Stet Goober without breaking a sweat. The...

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Democrats Who Voted for SAFE Act are Cowards & Traitors

Once upon a time:  What I want to know, what I want to know, is what in the world so many Democrats are doing supporting the President’s unilateral intervention in Iraq? What I want to know, is what in...

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Louisiana Politics: Gret Stet Goober Race Wrap Up Act Two

I had a classic blogger moment on social media this morning. An old friend in California asked me how it was possible that David Vitter lost because she’d heard he was a shoo-in. I told her to read my...

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What goes into creating an “Obsession” post

Hi, good people! Ms. A has given me permission to take a mental health day (week). Here’s what prompted it: In the middle of a “Kill all the ragheads” thread (which is about all there is on Free...

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The Political Obituary Of David Vitter

Screenshot from a GumboPac ad. I don’t usually take politics personally. I did as a young political junkie but it was too painful when my candidate lost. I’ve always made an exception for David Vitter....

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Poor White People Don’t Vote Against Their Interests Because They Don’t Vote

An important point as we all sit around and talk about why the dumb hicks are being dumb hicks:  Meanwhile, many people who in fact most use and need social benefits are simply not voting at all. Voter...

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It’s Never About the Bad Apples

A Chicago police officer shot a guy, has been charged with murder, and people are going full ALL LIVES MATTER on it, natch:  Last December, Kalven and Futterman issued a statement revealing the...

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Album Cover Art Wednesday: Introducing The Eleventh House

The Eleventh House with Larry Coryell were an early jazz-prog-rock fusion band. They were also one of the best because of guitarist Coryell, trumpeter Randy Brecker, and the funky drum stylings of...

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Wingnuts: The Musical

Apparently, Buckley’s brain child, the National Review is celebrating its 60th Anniversary of spewing nonsense. They decided to celebrate with a deeply silly animated video featuring Buckley doing the...

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Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Thursday Turkey Murders

If your crazy right wing Uncle who watches too much Fox News goes off on you today, please do not re-enact this book. How about some cheesecake for dessert?

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Who Needs Facts When Myths Will Do?

From Album 5 If you haven’t already seen it, Matt Taibbi looks at what happens when an entire generation or so buys into “facts are stupid things,” an-empire-versus-the-reality-based-community, Sarah...

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Now Be Thankful

I like Thanksgiving and I like ritual, which is why I’m posting this song for the fourth year in a row: Just remember to never cut the toikey without me:

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Friday Guest Catblogging: The Amazing Acro-Cats

Oscar and Della are too tuckered out from turkey day to make an appearance this week. Instead, here are the deeply silly Amazing Acro-Cats on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert:  

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Friday Ferretblogging: Ferrets Are Responsible for All Good Things

Thanks, ferrets!  One day in 1930, 16-year-old Boyce Lane was out indulging in a favourite pastime — rabbit hunting. The Tantanoola teenager was wandering around a local spot known as Hanging Rocks and...

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Heroes often fail

A young woman from my feature writing class sat in my office and stared at me long and hard. She halted for a moment before saying something I knew to be true: “I’ve never seen you like this before.”...

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Saturday Odds & Sods: Pocket Of A Clown

I had a long week and was away from the computer for much of it. I also had a drink or five on Thanksgiving. In short, I didn’t have the requisite time to lavish on this feature this week. Strictly my...

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Your Inconvenience Versus Someone’s Life

Oh, boy are we concern trolling HARD right now in Chicago:  The protest did bother some shoppers, many of whom said they were from out of state and only had the day to check out Chicago’s Mag Mile...

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Sunday Morning Video: Huey Long

Huey Long was Ken Burns’ third documentary feature and helped make his reputation as a filmmaker. Huey was, of course, the most colorful Gret Stet Goober of them all.

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If You Vote There’s Nothing They Can Do

There’s a lesson in here for everyone, horrifying as the Trump show has become:  The political network backed by the billionaire Koch brothers has no plans to take on Trump. American Crossroads, the...

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A Hard Year and a Cold One

Kick crawls into my lap and she whispers to me, “Shhh, dark out” in the very early morning when she wakes up. She wakes at 6, almost every day (when she doesn’t wake up at 5:30) and she wants toast and...

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Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati –“everything must go” edition

Good morning, everyone! I promised some oldies, but first – a nugget of absolute pure Freepitude: In a thread about Dead Breitbart’s assertion that The Darnold didn’t REALLY say what he said: Donald...

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Quote Of The Day: Piercing Insight Edition

Another day, another quote from Charlie Pierce. This time about the rampant mendacity, fabulism, and truthiness that is depressingly ubiquitous on the American Right: As with so many things, this all...

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Malaka Of The Week: Joe Alleva

LSU Athletic Director Joe Alleva frowns as Coach Les Miles holds a post-game presser on 11/28. Alleva is the silver-haired malaka with the blazer and purple tie. It’s been a wild and crazy few weeks...

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