I’d like to be the first to welcome Reggie Bush to the Saints. It’s all downhill from here, Reggie. Talk to Ricky Williams about how accomplished the Saints are at turning a college stud into a chump. God help you. It’s bad enough you have jerks for parents. Now you have to overcome playing for the suckiest bunch of sucks that ever sucked in the NFL.
P.S. over/under on The Saints leaving New Orleans: 10 months.
I love this woman. She has now photoshopped out the trash can on the image of Disneyland on her website.
Well that fixes everything.
I don’t know anything about Kimberly Williamson Butler, but she certainly does not get elbuzzard.com’s endorsement for the New Orleans mayorial race. On the header of her website, she is posed on Bourbon Street in Disneyland.
Does anyone know of a spot in the Quarter that looks like this:
That’s right, the streets don’t end like that. They just don’t curve like that. Not in the section with balconies like that, anyway. Or where people can walk in the street. And they sure as hell aren’t that clean.
Over at Wonkette, they have pointed out that the trash can in the picture looks just like the ones in Disneyland:
If I remember right, the real trash cans don’t look anything like that, either.
Also: Note that there is no curb.
Kimberly Williamson Butler sucks.
via Wonkette via This Justin
Expecting a budget shortfall of $9 million for the 2006-07 school year, Loyola administrators today proposed a major restructuring of the university.
The plan, to be formally presented at the Board of Trustees’ meeting on May 19, would suspend and eliminate 27 undergraduate and graduate programs beginning in the fall. Seventeen tenured and tenure-track faculty members would also be let go. Comments from university members – students and faculty – will be accepted until April 19 on Loyola’s Web site, according to a press release from the university.
We go and trade Wayne Gandy (OT) for Byron Scott (SS) from the Falcons.
Gandy is pretty crappy. So is Scott. I don’t really remember him from any Falcons game. But that’s not important. What’s important is that now we have gotten rid of three guys on the offensive line this offseason. Which seems to me that we are going to take D’Brickshaw Ferguson over a defensive player like AJ Hawk in the draft.
I’d love to see the Saints go back to the days where we put our faith in our defense, rather than our offense.
Colleen sent me this in an email via her sister:
http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_1351.php
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast last fall, well-meaning architects, designers and planners the world over have been scrambling to submit proposals for rebuilding New Orleans. Surprisingly, however, the discussion has mainly been concentrated around what to rebuild – sidestepping the deeper issues of how and why rebuild in a floodplain at all. It is common knowledge that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen, simply because of the physical geological situation of the area. The city sits below sea-level in an area of former wetlands, surrounded by water in every direction – sandwiched between a giant lake, the Mississippi river and the ocean. Anyone in their right mind will realize that the only acceptable proposals for rebuilding New Orleans are ones that propose a solution to deal with the almost certain likelihood of being flooded again in the near future.
Sometimes it takes an outsider with a fresh pair of eyes to realize the obvious. In this case, it was the syncronicity between a New Orleans schoolgirl named Courtney S. and Dutch architectural firm MVRDV which led to a great idea for rebuilding New Orleans: build hills! The idea is so simple, so sensible, so obvious, and yet strangely no-one had seriously proposed it. Until now…. Dutch architecture firm MVRDV explains:
It’s brilliant! A giant astroturf hill right on Baronne Street!
One of the few things the city government officials did right was setting up a free, public wireless Internet connection in the Quarter. Now, BellSouth wants to shut it down.
City CIO says he’d rather go to jail than shut down the city’s free wireless network.
March 22, 2006Another hurricane season starts in June, but this year it’s a political storm that is threatening to shut down New Orleans’ jury-rigged Wi-Fi service.
After Katrina ravaged the Big Easy six months ago, Greg Meffert, the city’s chief information officer, got downtown businesses back online by opening the city’s wireless mesh network–originally deployed to link surveillance cameras–to anyone who needed it. For free.
“Now it is the lifeblood for so many businesses,” Mr. Meffert told Red Herring. With Internet service still down in more than half the city, he estimates more than 15,000 people use the city’s 512 kbps (kilobits per second) network.
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Now telecommunication lobbyists are trying to shut down the network, and Mr. Meffert says it looks like the state legislature will agree. State law prohibits cities from providing more than a relatively sluggish 128-kbps network, but New Orleans offered its faster network as an emergency relief effort.
Wow, what a crappy thing to do.  I really hope the state legislature has enough compassion/foresight/balls to change that law. What a way to further cripple businesses already struggling to get by.
QB Brooks agrees on two-year deal with Raiders
Unrestricted free agent quarterback Aaron Brooks, the former New Orleans starter released last week after the Saints signed Drew Brees, has reached agreement with the Oakland Raiders on a two-year contract.
Poor Oakland. First Vodka Collins, now Aaron Brooks.
I feel for you, Randy Moss.
The Third Battle of New Orleans have some fantastic aerial photos of the New Orleans area taken on 11 March 2006.
I’ve been to the (formerly) urban areas, but hadn’t seen what places like St. Bernard, the Irish Bayou, and Delacroix looked like. The wetland erosion is devastating.
I’m sure his shoulder is fine….