Rick Redding was an original founder of this website.
Why does Jonathan Meador hate poor Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning? He is so mean to those two with his fancy facts. So mean. [FatLip]
Are you a Louisville area barista? Then listen up. Some fancy coffee folks from around the city will be gathering next Monday evening to geek out. Latte art, music, vacuum pots, etc. Kind of a major pot luck coffee tasting. Mmm. [Louisville Barista]
Welcome to Louisville, the seventh-most dangerous city for pedestrians. Yet another banner we can hang with pride. Just like that 16th With a Bullet sign at the county line. [C-J]
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition “Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race” is opening at the University of Louisville’s Kornhauser Health Sciences Library downtown on November 16. The exhibit examines the role the pre-war German medical community played in the Holocaust. [USHMM]
Gilles Meloche is on Facebook and it’s a hoot to look at his friends list. [Click the Clicky]
One of them wrote an outlandish letter of praise that was all about Metro Animal Murderer for the Courier-Journal. [C-J]
Time to check in on the arena’s progress. [Broken Sidewalk]
This is kind of a big deal: the 2009 March of Dimes Signature Chefs auction raised $242,000. The Frazier Family Foundation and Neonatal Intensive Care Experts did an amazing job on November 5th. [Press Release]
8 responses so far ↓
1 Bells // Nov 10, 2009 at 8:38 am
I am a some frequent visitor to this site and enjoy the content immensely. I think Gilles Meloche has been absolutely atrocious and deserves to be punished and has been rightfully villified. I also think our Mayor needs to take responsibility for this awful, awful hiring. However, at what point does it become piling on? All of this coverage of Meloche almost, and I stress almost, makes me feel a modicum of sympathy for someone who is otherwise the most dislikable character in recent memory.
2 EdenSprings // Nov 10, 2009 at 9:43 am
Bells: RU Kid N Me? That’s like saying you feel sorry for Hilter after watching a documentary on WWII.
Besides, how pathetic is it that the guy only has 6 BFF’s in the entire world? Except that one is his kid, one is his former boss (Rudy Patootie) and one is his immigration lawyer makes it worse (or, should I say, “professional”?).
Wonder how fast Gary Allen is going to scuttle out of that list??
3 jake // Nov 10, 2009 at 10:02 am
Sorry, Gilles Meloche is despicable and should never have been hired, but let’s refrain from comparing anyone to Adolf Hitler.
4 EdenSprings // Nov 10, 2009 at 10:43 am
Did you know that in Nazi Germany, 32 ‘animal protection’ laws were passed, many aimed at preventing “certain segments of society” from owning pets? They also served the function of being able to legally enter the homes of ‘undesireables’ and do inspections and head-counts.
Remind you of anyone’s federal deposition claim that “poor people” shouldn’t be allowed to own pets?
Having lost an entire portion of my family in the camps, it makes me nervous anytime I see similarities. That said, I won’t compare him to the Fuhrer in the future.
5 jake // Nov 10, 2009 at 11:03 am
Honestly, it’s disgusting and borderline anti-Semitic to compare ANYONE to Adolf Hitler.
You kill your argument faster than a teabagger trying to pretend they’re registered to vote.
I realize your obsession with Meloche is legitimate. He’s done a terrible job and Jerry Abramson continues to serve as apologist and enabler. But the comparison to Hitler is despicable.
6 jamison // Nov 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm
I think everyone can agree that Meloche’s job performance was sketchy. But I think posting his facebook friends is a little far and tacky.
It is one thing to discuss his job performance, but to go and discuss his friends on FB is totally out of line.
7 Rico // Nov 10, 2009 at 12:29 pm
WLKY’s lead story last night was the MAS scandal and how the employees back in 2006 had sent many letters to Rudy seeking help for MAS and Rudy just whitewashed the whole thing.
Anybody who came after Eric Blow would be a “change agent” by default.
8 jake // Nov 10, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I often wonder if people ever do something as simple as, you know, read before commenting. But “jamison” has made it clear that couldn’t be further from reality.
We published a link to his PROTECTED Facebook profile (meaning it’s not public – meaning the average Joe on the street can’t see a damn thing) and didn’t name any of his friends. Though, Rudy – one of the friends – wrote an interesting white wash of a letter to the Courier without mentioning once in the letter that he was a close friend of Meloche – which Facebook revealed.
Here’s a hint, people: read what’s written before you comment.
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