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Some news of the day, in easy to swallow bites A Supreme take on tolerance One cool thing about retired justices of the Supreme Court is they tell us what they really think about things, like John Paul...
View ArticleLast Call for 2010
I’m cleaning out files and dumping what I’ll never use—some of it because the crummy foreign-made hyperlinks are broken—and while reorganizing the rest I found some things that need to be posted now,...
View ArticleHouston’s News Authority has left the building
Today they smothered the last vestige of what once was the most kick-ass radio news station in Houston when KTRH Radio fired morning anchors Lana Hughes and J.P. Pritchard. “Eh, yeah, 27 years…but...
View ArticleTake your seats, please, the curtain’s going up for the Big Finish
Since we last checked in with our heroes: Speaker Boehner, faced with his own proposal going down to defeat in the chamber he (ostensibly) leads, capitulated—he added a balanced budget provision to his...
View ArticleDear Anita Perry,
I am surprised, I must say. I’d have thought that after more than 30 years as the wife of a professional politician you wouldn’t be so sensitive to a little push-back. But they are less deferential...
View ArticleFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice…
The “supercommittee” admitted defeat; it won’t have a blueprint for reducing the nation’s deficit (stories here, here and here). Is this a bad thing? Some have argued, no: the first direct result of...
View ArticleDaily digest 1
Some news of the day, in easy to swallow bites A Supreme take on tolerance One cool thing about retired justices of the Supreme Court is they tell us what they really think about things, like John Paul...
View ArticleLast Call for 2010
I’m cleaning out files and dumping what I’ll never use—some of it because the crummy foreign-made hyperlinks are broken—and while reorganizing the rest I found some things that need to be posted now,...
View ArticleHouston’s News Authority has left the building
Today they smothered the last vestige of what once was the most kick-ass radio news station in Houston when KTRH Radio fired morning anchors Lana Hughes and J.P. Pritchard. “Eh, yeah, 27 years…but...
View ArticleTake your seats, please, the curtain’s going up for the Big Finish
Since we last checked in with our heroes: Speaker Boehner, faced with his own proposal going down to defeat in the chamber he (ostensibly) leads, capitulated—he added a balanced budget provision to his...
View ArticleDear Anita Perry,
I am surprised, I must say. I’d have thought that after more than 30 years as the wife of a professional politician you wouldn’t be so sensitive to a little push-back. But they are less deferential...
View ArticleFool me once, shame on you; fool me twice…
The “supercommittee” admitted defeat; it won’t have a blueprint for reducing the nation’s deficit (stories here, here and here). Is this a bad thing? Some have argued, no: the first direct result of...
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