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National academic group to probe LSU’s firing of professor
~Jordan Blum
~The American Association of University Professors wrote LSU Chancellor Michael Martin this week announcing the group is forming an investigatory committee to look into last year’s termination of van Heerden, the former deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center

~Can someone ask these folks what Environmental Law and Policy is served in the Bald Light of the Sacking by LSU of Dr. Ivor van Heerden,---an Environmental Professor? And WHAT if ANYTHING they plan to do about it? Ooopsee! Is it a Problem that Tulane already Sacked their own Engineering Department?

Crude oil spill fouls about a fifth of Delta National Wildlife Refuge

Landrieu: Those who quit chief search were throwing bricks, not building bridges~The Lens

A Post Katrina Discovery
~Thanks Katrina

David Simon names Ashley Morris on Colbert Report
~Your Right Hand Thief

Creators got local folks involved in HBO's 'Treme'~Jerry Shriver

What Isn't News: NATO's Coverup of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan~Harry Shearer

Apple Celeriac Remoulade with Crab~Serious Eats

Whitman, As Whitman Would Have Wanted~Phoebe Neidl

Chris Lane's Solo Summit:
Hell is Other People ~Gambit