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Emails released from Governor Blanco's office now show that the major concern of the Louisiana State Government in the days after Hurricane Katrina were PR and Image Control.

Aides also had concerns about Blanco's physical appearance and discussed ways to make her look strong but compassionate. Their ideas, according to the e-mails, included having Blanco "put a few bags of ice in the hands of the citizens who need it" and stop "doing too many 'first lady' things."

"Gov. Blanco might dress down a bit and look like she has rolled up her sleeves," press consultant Kim Fuller of Witt Associates wrote in a Sept. 4 e-mail to aides including Bottcher, Mann and Kopplin. "I have some great Liz Claiborne sports clothes that look kind of Eddie Bauer, but with class, but would bring her down to level of getting to work."

"She would look like a woman, but show she is MOVING MOUNTAINS," Fuller wrote.

More moonbattery, this time from the arts set: the "Peace Mom" play:

"There is a rhythm and tempo in [Sheehan's] prose which recalls the great epic writers of Greece. When she writes: 'I am the mother of a son killed in Iraq; you are the mother of the man who killed him,' it is almost hendecasyllabic..."

The play is funny and touching; but not very gay.

Mother Sheehan is played by Frances de la Tour, who played the giantess Madame Maxime in the latest Harry Potter movie...jeez, I thought she looked familiar. Gads, the horror of a nine-foot Cindy Sheehan with a French accent.