Eli has a made a cute joke this morning. In case you missed the context, at the end of the day yesterday, the City announced that it was suing six contractors it found to have kept insufficient records of a little more than $200,000.00 paid to them through NOAH. (If you need more NOAH context at thi...

Why is our justice system designed in such a way that witholding public records related to small-time municipal corruption will get the book thrown at you but conspiring to piss on the US Constitution and enable torture probably won't even get you disbarred?...

1) God I hate Bush 2) Are we sure Cheney didn't injure himself actually letting the door hit him in the ass on the way out? 3) Obama's speech is very much the sort of thing you might have liked to hear from your President on 9-11. 4) Although Obama mentioned the word levees, he did not say anything ...

I just read that the father of the Gardner teen that died in a fight is going to stand trial for threatening some people. This bothers me on so many levels. The guy just lost his son for something that could have been avoided. Yeah, he may have not started the fight with the deliberate intention to ...

It's a New Orleans law that you only eat at the best restaurants on the taxpayer's dime when you look this cool! And nobody looks cooler and eats better on the taxpayer's dime than New Orleans Mayor C. Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin. Two weeks ago it was revealed that Mayor Ray Nagin's top aides charged...

Stop what you're doing and read this Salon piece on Karl Rove's role in the (continuing to this very day) screwing of New Orleans. Instead of supplying relief to the city, Rove had devised a scheme whereby he could blame the failure of government to take action on someone besides Bush. "They looked ...

What Mominem said. Update: Of course, Stephanie Grace found the delusions "refreshing" While in this week's Gambit Clancy Dubos writes, "This is the Ray Nagin we elected in 2002-- Where has he been?" I suppose Clancy's right about one thing. Ray Nagin is the same Ray Nagin he's always been; just as ...

Dick Cheney and Ray Nagin share speechwriters...

Celcus liked the part where the Mayor said (about getting the crime cameras working) "Don't clap. We haven't done it yet" BSJD liked the part where "Mayor Bozo was bragging about the number of vacant buildings" Oyster liked all the "optimism" For me, it's hard to say. Nagin's clowning last night was...

The major media in New Orleans continues to shield Ray Nagin from the alleged criminality of his close friends and associates... while giving no quarter to the similarly associated former Mayor Morial. The consistent discipline with which this is done staggers the imagination. Meanwhile the T-P goes...