Texas Archive
24 May 2013
Congress Critter: All Your Uteri are Belong to Us
What do you say to a woman who tells you how a anti-abortion bill you’re supporting would have forced her to give birth to a fetus that was missing a significant part of it’s brain and would
16 Sep 2010
Texas to Islam: We’re on to You!
The Texas Board of Education is back to meddling again. The target this time is Islam. Why? Because a failure to paint Muslims as wild-eyed jihadists from the darkest and deepest pit of hell come to kill
12 Sep 2010
Rick Perry for Creationism
With the race with Bill White as close as it is, Rick Perry has decided to lay on the religiosity quite thick. Not only does he think the Texas Board of Education is doing a bang up
11 Dec 2008
Here yesterday, gone today
Houston got a surprise yesterday. It snowed. I thought I was imagining it at first. Then I expected it to disappear as quickly as it came down, but it didn’t. By 9PM everything in our area had
8 Dec 2008
Why is Cynthia Dunbar still on the SBOE?
She is, first of all, a bloody idiot who stands by her statements about Obama being a terrorist who’s going to declare martial law within the first six months of his administration. Second of all, She has
4 Jun 2008
Evolution vs. Creationism, the Texas version
It looks like Texas is planning to enter the “debate” over the teaching of evolution. After fighting for nearly three years about how to teach children to read, the Texas Board of Education has decided to take
5 May 2008
Note to Linguistic Fascists
If you’re going to demand that people speak English, you should make it a priority to learn how to spell English. via: Immigration Chronicles: Perhaps spell check is in order …
17 Apr 2008
Houston wins! Pollutes more air than LA!
Since moving to Houston from El Paso about six or seven years ago I swear a month hasn’t went by without me spending a few days with some moderate to severe congestion. It’s so bad that I
12 Feb 2008
First patriotism, now God soaked patriotism?
Our daughter just started school this year and it’s been wonderful to see her slowly get past her bashfulness. Getting her to talk, even to say if something hurt was like pulling teeth with pliers made out
18 Jan 2008
Pious fraud caught up in sex scandal
For the last couple of weeks the local media has been somewhat in a tizzy about a scandal at the district attorney’s office. Having lived in Texas for about a decade or so now, I blew it
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