Static — this thing is on, I swear

For a number of reasons, soon after this blog was launched it went silent. Rather than a daily posting, we’re going to try to do a weekly news roundup. Commentary will be included as gravy.

Bingo, again…again?

The Ferriday town council — or at least, three of the members of the town council — have called a meeting to discuss the introduction of an electronic bingo ordinance for Thursday night. Supposedly, they wanted to move the venue to the Arcade Theater to accomodate the expected large number of people in attendance, but DA candidate Andy Magoun will be having a campaign rally there, so the meeting will be at the Ferriday Town Hall as usual.

It’s interesting that three of the members want to revisit the issue so soon after the last public hearing, which was more like a public flaying of the guys who proposed the idea by everyone from ministers to a woman who said she would rather pick cotton on her knees than see bingo in town. What will be more interesting is what they actually do during the meeting — after all, three council members is enough to pass an ordinance.

Edit: After a lot of hemming and hawing and a good deal of public outrage at the meeting, none of the town council members could bring themselves to introduce the motion that would have allowed bingo in. Not only was the meeting a waste of time, but it effectively killed bingo indefinitely.

Ho, ho, ho, pass the Ho Hos.

The CDC says we’re fat.

So, what’s new?

Is this thing on?

Testing, testing. One, two, three.