Hoffmania has Rachel Maddow doing a podthing about JOHN BOLTON!!! Love her.

Mayor Nagin has a chronic case of foot in mouth disease.

Kathleen Blanco isn't running for a second term as Governor of Louisiana. That's good because unfortunately, she wasn't very effective. She couldn't get people to move their asses when the disaster hit and is still having that problem with the recovery- especially with the Road Home Program. She seems like a nice lady but I think that has been the problem all along. She needed to be a ball-buster with these southern good-ole-boy politicians and not the southern-bell she seems to be. So it seems John Breaux might give it a go or even Mitch Landrieu, blek. The republicans are probably looking at Jindal running again. No one new guys?

Four butters for The Good the Bad and the Queen this past Sunday night when they played at the Republic (the old Howlin Wolf). They would have gotten 5 but they were an hour late starting and I had to wake up early the next morning, wankers. The Republic gets butters for having them but minus butters for the sticky stuff stuck to the floor where we were standing- gross. But I loved the show- Damon Alburn's voice was just the thing for me to stop thinking of my shoes that wanted to stay put even after I moved. The music was great and I loved the stage presence of former bassist of The Clash, Paul Simonon. He was having a ball and was cool as hell. If they're not coming near you, you can download their live show for free from All Songs Considered at the ITunes music store- if just to hear the first song, History Song. So good.

These are so funny. These people have filthy minds.

Something sort of good happened today:
'Scooter' Libby guilty on four of five counts

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been found guilty on four of five counts in his perjury and obstruction of justice trial.

Libby was convicted of:
-obstruction of justice when he intentionally deceived a grand jury investigating the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame;
-making a false statement by intentionally lying to FBI agents about a conversation with NBC newsman Tim Russert;
-perjury when he lied in court about his conversation with Russert;
-a second count of perjury when he lied in court about conversations with other reporters.

Now the reason I say this is "sort of" a good thing is because no one has yet to be indicted for the actual crime that Scooter was caught lying about: outing a CIA agent?
It sounds like little Scooter has been used as a scapegoat and the real crimninal is still on the loose and being a horror of a vice-president. Can they finally stop beating around the Bush and indict the man already! Get it?!! I capitalized the B in bush so it is like the preznit's name! Sorry.

I just saw an ambulance chasing lawyer commercial that I had to mention. "Call Hall" is the catch phrase and it actually shows a woman standing near a car with blood on her face and money in her hand, smiling, saying "Call Hall!". I know, I know- I shouldn't be surprised by this but my god! Its so blatant! Funny stuff. I will look on YouTube to see if anyone else picked this up.

Democrats propose N.O. teacher incentives

So now that the preznit is in town to cause even worse traffic jams than ever conceivable, the Democrats thought they would address a worthy topic of concern for many New Orleans- the horrible educational system. Its a big problem that many have run into while trying to return to the city after Katrina. How can a family return without schools for their children to attend? Many have opened since the storm but since the New Orleans Public Schools became charter schools after the hurricane, there is more bureacracy than ever. A friend who teaches has told me of the all the loopholes she has to go through, all the ridiculus meetings she has to attend and the longer hours she has to work for the same pay. She is angry that they are taking time away from her own children without giving her anything in return. If they want to get teachers to stick around, how about making their lives a little easier? I'm sure she will be happy to learn that she may be recieving a bonus from the federal government for staying in the city but I think the people in charge of these charter schools need to find ways to keep their employees happy. But anyway, yay for the democrats for throwing money at the problem! At least its going to something worthy.