Louisiana: third world and proud of it!

[ekaterinn]

That was a bumper sticker I saw on a car in my church one day. It was the first thing I thought of when I saw this strip from xkcd:



I'm not searching out any news about the oil spill, because I'll just worry endlessly about something I can't do much about, though I do plan to see if I can volunteer with clean-up this summer. But I can't help reading the headlines of the newspapers I pass by, and I just know whenever BP says anything, they're lying out their ass. My mom used to describe Louisiana as more Caribbean then U.S. and I think she's right, both in the cultural sense and in how we're treated by the media and the government in the rest of U.S.

Still, I'll pay good money (to the Dems, natch) to watch James Carville ride an alligator. *g*

Comments

[fanelia-angel.livejournal.com]

James Carville riding an alligator would be so, so epic!!

I agree that Louisiana gets the shit end of the stick when it comes to problems, tragedies, and basically anything bad everyone scratches their heads and makes sure that Bourbon street is okay and then leave it alone.

It's annoying and I don't seek out news articles either cuz what I see on CNN is bad enough. Birds covered in oil and so, so much sadness I can't even take it.

[bejiin.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I'd pay to see James Carville ride an alligator too. I can't say I like political people for the most part but watching Mr. Carville and Ms. Matalin interact.. they are too cute. It's nice to know that two people with such different political views can be married.