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Report: BP dispersants are making people sick
Things could be going from really bad to even worse around the Gulf of Mexico, for residents and for BP. An investigation by Al Jazeera reveals that the dispersants BP is using to treat the spill are...
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Giant Diesel loco throws a piston
This 2010 message-board post allegedly details the mayhem wrought when CN locomotive 2699 ("a 212 ton, 6 axle machine powered by a 4400 hp V16 4 stroke Diesel") threw a piston while passing through...
View ArticleLouisiana commissioner proposes ban on public pajama-wearing
Caddo Parish, LA commissioner Michael Williams is sick and tired of being able to discern guys' penises through their pajamas at WalMart (apparently, the men of Caddo like to go to WalMart in their...
View ArticleJudge okays exclusion of damaging emails from BP oil spill trial
A judge has granted requests from defendants in the BP oil disaster case to exclude various emails from trial. The details of the emails are an interesting read. For instance: At Halliburton's request,...
View ArticleCrazy stuff they'll teach in Louisiana's publicly funded charter schools
Louisiana governor (and retired exorcist) Bobby Jindal has signed an aggressive charter school bill that will transfer millions in tax dollars to religious academies run by evolution-denying,...
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Creationist fifth grade science textbook used in Louisiana public school
On Buzzfeed, Andrew Kaczynski reproduces pages from About Science 5, a fifth grade science textbook used in some Louisiana public schools, which teaches Biblical creationism alongside of evolution as...
View ArticleMeet Zack Kopplin, the 19-year-old who started winning battles against...
IO9 profiles Zack Kopplin, a 19-year-old, five-year veteran of the fight against teaching creationism in Louisiana's science classes. Kopplin was a student when the a law came into effect allowing...
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Spontaneous jam: USMC & HS marching band, Mardi Gras
Matt sends, "video I caught of a spontaneous jam session that happened in front of me at Mardi Gras 2015: A USMC band and a bunch of high school band members met in the streets and suddenly launched...
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'Death comes soon' to U.S., wrote Facebook user believed to be Louisiana gunman
[caption id="attachment_408624" align="alignnone" width="930"] A police officer stands at the entrance to a movie theatre, near flowers left for victims of a Thursday night shooting, in the theatre in...
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Louisiana townsfolk terror-freak over Hebrew "welcome home" sign
Several residents of Rapides Parish called the sherriff's office to report a "terror message" on a sign that actually said "Welcome home, Yamit," in Hebrew. (more…)
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Undercover reporter spent four months as a prison guard in a Louisiana pen...
https://youtu.be/MJ_cIFtqSP0 Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) is one of the world's largest private jailers; it runs prisons and immigration detention centers across the USA (and is...
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Report: BP dispersants are making people sick
Things could be going from really bad to even worse around the Gulf of Mexico, for residents and for BP. An investigation by Al Jazeera reveals that the dispersants BP is using to treat the spill are...
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Giant Diesel loco throws a piston
This 2010 message-board post allegedly details the mayhem wrought when CN locomotive 2699 ("a 212 ton, 6 axle machine powered by a 4400 hp V16 4 stroke Diesel") threw a piston while passing through...
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Louisiana's public defender's office is largely nonexistent so poor people...
Louisiana has always been a backward place for criminal justice, the only state in the union that funds its public defenders' office with conviction fees, leaving a public defender's office that...
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Family calls cops for help with harassment, cop shoots their dog and...
Kelli Sullivan called the Evangeline Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Department for help with a difficult neighbor who'd harassed her family; when the Sheriff's Deputy arrived, he shot their rat terrier...
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Teacher removed from public education meeting in handcuffs after asking why...
Deyshia Hargrave is an English teacher at Rene Rost Middle Schools in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana; on Monday night, she attended a special meeting of the local school board and, when called upon...
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One quarter of New Orleans' catch-basins were clogged to uselessness with...
London has fatbergs: glistening, multiton agglomerations of fat, sanitary napkins, "flushable" wipes, human waste, dirty diapers, used condoms, and delicious strawberry jam; New Orleans has 93,000...
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Yikes: A massive swarm of mayflies cover Louisiana gas station
Kenny Hickman stopped to get a tank of gas from a station on Military Road in Slidell, Louisiana and discovered it was covered in A SWARM OF MAYFLIES! So, instead of pumping gas, he shot this video...
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Help rebuild 3 historically Black churches in Louisiana
As the world mourns what was lost in the devastating fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, the country's elite have pledged nearly half a billion euros towards the rebuild. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted...
View ArticleDr. John, the New Orleans music icon born Malcolm John Rebennack, dies at 77
A legend of American music has departed. His name was Malcolm John Rebennack, or Mac Rebennack, but we knew him as Dr. John. He was 77 years old, and is said to have succumbed to a heart attack....
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