CenLamar | Est. 2006

  • Telling It Like It Is

    New Orleans Councilwoman Shelley Midura on announcing her decision not to seek reelection: She then issued a challenge to the city’s other elected leaders. “What troubles me most about New Orleans is the democracy gap between the priorities of the people and the priorities of the decision-makers in power,” she wrote. “Too many of our elected officials and influential citizens continue to do the public wrong by protecting the status quo or their own self-interest. “Rather than using data or best practices or evidence of success, policy and budget decisions with long-term consequences for the city’s future are too often…

  • Banning Mermaids and Centaurs

    In what will surely be a major setback to anyone hoping to genetically engineer the world’s first mermaid or centaur, today, Senator Mary Landrieu joined 19 Republicans in co-sponsoring Senator Brownback’s Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act, a piece of policy that, as Politico points out, is modeled after a bill recently signed by our very own Governor, Bobby Jindal. Politico also points out that the legislation fails to give a specific example of what these human-animal hybrids would look like, but isn’t it obvious? Mermaid: Centaur: Planet of the Apes: Goatboy: I agree with this legislation. No hybrids! It would get…

  • Louisianan Elected Chair of Young Republicans

    Oyster’s been covering this woman’s antics for a few years now, and recently, she made national headlines after seemingly endorsing an overtly racist comment about President Obama. Her name is Audra Shay, and on Saturday, she was elected as the next Chairperson of the Young Republicans. Some people may question whether or not a 38-year-old is truly a “young Republican.” That’s not fair. Clearly, this woman is immature beyond her years. John Avlon of The Daily Beast has been on her trail, and on Friday, he posted a scathing article uncovering some of Shay’s most absurd comments on the social…