Conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter - known for her incessant self-righteous bloviating and controversial assaults on 9-11 widows, The New York Times and most recently, single mothers - has a new person on her blacklist: Baton Rouge political radio talk show host Jim Engster. Congratulations, Jim. Coulter, who’s promoting her latest manifesto, titled Guilty, called in for an interview on Engster’s show yesterday and began to refer to President-elect Barack Obama as a 14-year-old. When Engster corrected her, saying that Obama is actually 47 years old - the same age as Coulter - Coulter replied she was using “hyperbole.” After Engster said it sounded more like an outright lie to him, Coulter told him to get a dictionary and promptly hung up the phone. Yesterday, Engster told Baton Rouge's Daily Report, “I tried to be respectful. She did say I needed to read a Webster’s before the next interview, so maybe she’ll be back on again.” Let’s hope not. Click here for a link to yesterday’s show.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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