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Cottage Films, who put their stuff on Vimeo. Magazine Street minutes after the end of the game:

Saints Superbowl Victory Celebration from Cottage Films on Vimeo.

Since I couldn't get my guy (@jamesperry2010 on Saturday, this was the best Plan B. Mitch winning out right is good because the campaign is now over and he can begin the transition. It also spares the city from a John Georges-financed bloodbath. As it was, Georges was starting with the "Mitch kills babies" meme on Friday, running it into the street on Saturday.

It's done. Mitch is going to do a good job.

Way to go, Saints.

Oh yeah.

This is gonna be fun.

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Yes, Raheem Brock, defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts, is stupid. I'm just surprised to see his team come out and say it.

Seems that Brock (who is on Twitter as @RaheemBrock) posted an offensive graphic about New Orleans (click through to Da Paper to see it, their catch, their click-through). It's a satellite image of Hurricane Katrina, looks like on 28-August-2005. Someone photoshopped a Colts' horseshoe into the eye of the storm. Brock shared the image in his twitter stream and said:

Storm bout to hit miami on sunday! Lol

(emphasis mine)

Yeah, a real class act. OK, nobody said second-string defensive ends were smart guys. But the response from the Colts organization is the disturbing one:

A spokesman for the Colts, Craig Kelley, said Brock told him this afternoon that the image was added to Brock's Twitter photo page "without his knowledge."

"The Internet can pose problems to innocent people, and he was not on board with this thing," Kelley said, adding, "If you're going to pump it up, you're going to pump it up. At least you should know the true story."

OK, somebody needs to give Mr. Kelley a bit of an education on Twitter. Does he really believe that a second-string defensive end has a public relations person doing his twitter for him? I can believe that Brock is stupid enough to give out his twitter password, but does his employer have to concede that stupidity in public?

No, this is just a pathetic way to blow off a very offensive story. The Colts should make Brock man up and apologize. Then they should make Kelley man up and apologize for being stupid.  The hype and excitement of Super Bowl week isn't an excuse to be an idiot.  Kelley may think he's at the Epicentre Of The Known World, but come Monday morning, Miami is just another American city and life goes on.

Katrina jokes just aren't funny, Mr. Kelley. People died. Thousands had their lives wrecked. I know that you folks live up there in your little white-bread, insulated world, but the rest of us aren't this obnoxious. This was a story that you should have gotten out in front of. You didn't, and you've let your employer down. This is the kind of thing where the league should step in and start damage control.

Man up, Raheem. Admit you said something tasteless, apologize, and get on with it.

my write-up of the tweet-up has been posted on YatCuisine.

At the tweet-up last night at BSI Comics, I got one of their famous buttons, and put it on my computer bag:

It says:

When I got home and showed it to kiddo, and he texted his older brother: "All Your Who Dat Are Belong To Us"

Firstborn replied: "Someone Set Up Us The Flood"

I have disturbed children. :-)

OH, and don't forget 'DATMAN t-shirts:

The conventional wisdom is that the longer we live, the less relevant the indiscretions of youth become. That's certainly what the John Georges campaign would want you to believe, since local blogger American Zombie did the research to confirm that Georges was quite the racist in his Tulane days.

So, Colin Powell has come out against Don't Ask/Don't Tell:

In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,” General Powell said in a statement issued by his office. He added: “I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.

I picked this up via Aravosis, who follows up with:

Democrats have to take advantage of this now. We cannot afford to wait a year for this study. This is about momentum, now. We have it. A year of religious right and GOP whittling away at us will doom this effort. Today, we can win. So what's the plan?

So what's the plan?

This is a classic example of why gay marriage is, what, 0-32 now? This is happening now, and you want to plan?

You guys really need to get your shit together. Either that or stop whinine every time you get rolled by Dobson and the rest of the wingnuts.