Forgive and celebrate with the Saints and their fans for they are justified, but the volume of heated conversation generated by football (especially the LSU and Tulane variety), as opposed to that on reconstruction and local government, makes me wonder about people’s inherent motivations. This is not to criticize the traffic garnered by sports, crime and sex talk on the local internet, but will the same number of people show up for Louisiana Election Day (Saturday, September 30, 2006) as they did for the circuses? I. D. Reilly of The Third Battle says,
“… this LSU/ESPN-related posting generated 61 comments in 48 hours? I was amazed at the interest in a sports-related post, and the lack of comments generated by recent New Orleans recovery-related posts. By the way folks, this is what our politicians and government agencies are hoping for, a distraction that takes the pressure off of their efforts, or realistically their lack of efforts, to acheive any real recovery for metro New Orleans.”
Well, this is what politicians and government agencies have hoped for since the dawn of the three Estates. I’ve already belabored the point in my most recent Metroblogging post. So, please just make sure to spend the next four days of post-Saints euphoria perusing the proposed amendments to the state constitution (ballots 1, 2 and 3, among others, are very critical to New Orleans). Don’t forget that there are humans running for office, too.
Go vote!
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