NEW ORLEANS (SNARKY) -- Look out Ninth Ward, someone has stolen your headlines. After a five-month run in the public consciousness, the devastated neighborhood was supplanted by the drunken revelry of the French Quarter.
Mardi Gras, translated from French as "Fat Tuesday", is ceremonial day of celebration and over-indulgence before Lent begins today. So much like the sparrows returning to Capistrano, frat boys and loose women from all over the country have descended upon New Orleans for their annual rite of spring.
The petrid offal of toxic sludge and water that ran through these streets last fall after the levees broke has been replaced by a petrid offal of vomit and urine of drunks. But this time there are beads. And some boobies.
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