You have GOT to be kidding me.

I’m going on three hours of sleep, so rather than try to write something sensible, I’ll just give you a “kitchen sink” post with what I’ve been reading.

I can’t believe I used to defend this guy. And I did defend him… oh, yes. I did. There was a time when C. “Chocolateville” Ray Nagin was the reform candidate for N’awlins mayor. I still believe Nagin was an honest man when he took the office, but that time is long past and 22 deleted gigabytes will come back to haunt him.  And though I still think it’s better to have this buffoon in office than a Landreiu (Mary’s little bro had a go at City Hall last time and pledged to include infamously corrupt former Mayor Marc Morial in his administration) I’m reminded of this sadly apropos quote:

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become only a study for archaeologists. …But it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes, than to own the whole state of Ohio. – Lafcadio Hearn, 1879

Susan Roesgen – who used to anchor the news here in NOLA – will join the ranks of the unemployed. Twenty bucks says she’ll be working for the government in some capacity before the year is out. Any takers?

This “fascist bastard” may not have heard back from God about his grade, but he did hear from the judge about his free speech rights. They were violated by the politically correct fascists at his community college, who wrongly concluded that people have the right not to be offended.

Here’s an important Public Service Announcement for gum chewers. (And if you’re over thirty, stop it, at least in public.  You look ridiculous. In fact, even if you’re under thirty, watching you work that piece of gum around your wide-open trap is still gross, so you stop it too.)

The LOTR movies made 80 gazillion dollars. Is it too much to ask that the studios give people (Tolkien’s heirs, Peter Jackson) their contractual share of the profits? I have a sneaking sympathy for the leftists “eeeeevil big business” rants when I read this kind of thing.  Talk about “closed societies that don’t want prying eyes.”

Mark your calendars. For the second time this week, I agree with President Obama: “Overall, there’s probably never been less discrimination in America than there is today.” Well, even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

But, but… some of Senator “Ma’am” Boxer’s best friends are black!  It’s perplexing why the Senator opposed National Black Chamber of Commerce CEO Harry Alford so strenuously – after all, he is clean and articulate!  The rest of the story, via Instapundit: “Senator Boxer goes, ‘colored boy, what are you doing with this sophisticated report?’”  That’s going to leave a mark.  You have to hear the whole thing; this guy is ticked.

The high costs of Obamacare – which Harry Alford, see above, inexplicably supports! – are going to really hurt small businesses and may violate the Constitution.  Fellow Green Roomer Jimmy Bise has more.