This week in awesome: Zach Kopplin

NOV 7 Well, if they're trying to keep people from reading your stuff, you got to be doing something right. Tom Aswell, guest blogging on Bayou Buzz here, says state employees have been forbidden from visiting the site. His feelings aren't hurt; he says he's longed advised them to not visit at work. But, dang, isn't this a little crazy?

NOV 7 This post on LaPolitics Weekly is a look back at the start of the phenomenon, a hot sheet kind of fax that John Maginnis started back in 1993. Interestingly, some of the people featured in that first edition are still being discussed today, Jeremy Alford writes.

NOV 7 The Advocate's Marsha Shuler blogs about the Edwin Edwards victory party this week - it was attended by the infamous Juror 68, who was dismissed from Edwards' federal trial - the one that ended with a prison sentence.

NOV 7 Sure, didn't we all have a visual of Bill Cassidy running for his life when he heard Bobby was on his way over with an endorsement? Mary Landrieu is hoping the governor's endorsement of her opponent hurts him, this post on WWL reports, and she hasn't wasted in any time in reminding people how much they despise Jindal.

NOV 7 Here's a creepy story out of New Orleans on the Picayune site about the fire-bombing of a political operative's car. Mario Zervigon, who is involved in several NOLA-area campaigns, was the target of the attack. His uptown home was heavily damaged as well, but luckily no one was hurt.

NOV 7 In June 2013, a female state legislator stood for Texas women when she stood for 11 hours to filibuster a restrictive abortion law. It started a movement that many hoped would end in her election to the Governor's Mansion, but that didn't happen Tuesday. In this post, blogger (and IND contributor) Lamar White Jr. tells us why that's OK.

NOV 7 It's been a police station and a jail, but now it's falling apart and open to the elements (which include local drug dealers). A new owner wants to turn a Philip Street mansion into a bed and breakfast with a community center, Gambit reports in this post. But will bureaucracy foil her plans?

NOV 7 FroYo may have come up with the next big thing - to celebrate its second anniversary on Canal, the shop is offering King Cake Croissants, NOLA Defender posts here. It sounds good, and it looks good, but with no baby, does that mean we will always have to buy our own?

NOV 6 Here's an interesting (and unbiased, we're sure) look at the "rivalry" between Texas and Louisiana, posted in the Houston Chronicle. Who wins? Well, the first "contest" is for breakfast food, and breakfast tacos beat out beignets. Say what? 

NOV 6 Hey, Bobby Jindal isn't going to let anybody get away with hurting Louisiana's coast. In this WWL story, he's calling out BP, accusing the oil giant of spending more money on advertising than on coastal restoration. Dang, that's as bad as trying to block a lawsuit that would hold coastal destroyers responsible for their actions. Or as bad as being paid to run a state and spending all your time in another one. Say, Iowa. 

NOV 6 Although the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port is taking in half what it did six years ago, American output is soaring, this post on Bloomberg reports. American oil production has "significantly changed the flows of oil around the world," one expert says.