James C. Moore - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 5)

Gullible's Travels

“The first of all the forces that rule the world is the lie.” ― Jean-François Revel

Tex-a-Tete

A fantasy: Angela Paxton sits through the whole impeachment trial, and when it comes time to vote, rises from her chair and gives a big thumbs down. The crowd in the gallery swoons; Paxton's mistress cries out, Ken!” and then a process server walks on the floor and serves Ken with divorce papers!!!

Journalism

Not Necessarily the News

" If you hear reports of a plane crash in Paris, chances are good there was a witness who has already posted about it on Twitter while CNN is struggling to gather actual facts. Eyeballs went a wandering, and ad dollars went a plummeting."

Travel

Mountains and Mysteries

“There ain’t no barbed wire up here, and it was made for me.” - Rich Corraza, Alaskan

national politics

Of Presidents and Potentates

"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." - Mark Twain

Travel

Looking for Mr. Brautigan

“I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word mayonnaise.” - Richard Brautigan, Poet and Novelist

Immigration

The North Bank of the Big River

The Immigrants will keep coming. The only thing separating their misery from bright possibility is a river, a desert, and laws they don’t understand. They take their chances and trek northward. Our need for their labor is insatiable. Their dreams will not be thwarted.

education

Teach Your Children Well

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B King

Science

The Rocket's Dead Glare

After the explosion, the female narrator, apparently without irony, told the audience, “There, as you saw, and as we promised, an exciting end to the Starship Inaugural Integrated test flight.”

Texas Politics

To Read is to Fly

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” —Anna Quindlen

personal

Down to the River

“Think of where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was, I had such friends.” - W.B. Yeats

Trump

Everybody is Lyin' but Him

No one in U.S. history has ever done what Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is about to undertake, and he must see his odds of failure as almost non-existent. Otherwise, why try? Bragg is on neither a fishing expedition nor a witch hunt. The fish has been landed and about to be filleted.

education

Lonesome Dumb

Rep. Jared Patterson is another mindless Republican from Frisco who runs with a gang of book banners - on the edge of becoming book burners. He's proposed legislation to control books that are introduced to public school libraries in a state that already bans more books than any other in the union.

national politics

That Awful Power

Firing a reporter on almost the exact twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq has more than a touch of irony. Ben Montgomery, a Tampa correspondent for Axios, was canned for his honesty regarding a document the governor of Florida’s office called a “news release,” which it was not.

War

Caught by the Chill

It's the story of a young man from Nevada, a Marine, who by all witness accounts, was probably the war’s first American casualty. This narrative is based on the reporting, interviewing, and writing I did at the time, and much of it is included in my second book, “Bush’s War for Reelection.” -JM

Texas Politics

The Plainsman

“I don’t know what y’all think,” Hightower said. “But here’s what I know. While we’re out here strugglin’ to make livin’, Ol’ Ronnie Reagan’s up there in the White House drinkin’ champagne and eatin’ caviar while we’re all down in Texas drinkin’ Lite Beer and eatin’ tuna fish.”

Texas History

What Really Happened at Waco

"Everybody was panicked, I can tell you that. Especially those guys who had been hit. They were screaming. I think one or two of them got hit in the gut just below their armor... No one other than the ATF and the Davidians knew what started all the shooting."

Science

The Last Card?

While the narrative of Von Braun’s “Last Card” theory unrolls like a terrific science fiction novel that might have been written by Isaac Asimov, the Internet and UFO groups are abuzz with either fantastical or prescient interpretations of the recent shoot downs of “objects” of North America...

Jesus on the Jumbotron

The exercise of influence is a fundamental goal. Philanthropy might be too Jesus-y. They want to create more conservative Christians because right-wing Christianity, which they thought would lead to political power, is destroying the church.

Black History

Walkin' in Memphis

Racism is as much about power as it is hatred of others, but black policemen killing a mostly innocent young black man is about something we cannot grasp.

personal stories

Zen and the Art of Remaining Upright

When I had first encountered Robert M. Pirsig’s book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values... I kept rereading through the years and grew to appreciate its subtle teachings. “The real cycle you’re working on,” he wrote, “is a cycle called ‘yourself.’

Texas Politics

All Hail the Mighty State

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s latest fascist edict is to ban the media from the Senate floor. This adds another level of constraint to the dissemination of the truth to keep voters informed and able to make decisions that rid the legislature of people like Mr. Patrick.

personal stories

The Great Voice of the Great Plains

Is there a list somewhere of things I am not supposed to say?” “Don’t try to be funny your first day on the job.” “When can I try to be funny?” “Not on our air.” “I suppose you’re right. Humor never works anywhere, does it?” “Look, we are a time, temperature, and news format.” “That’s a format?”

personal stories

Down Mexico Way

We were stopped by soldiers with automatic weapons slung over their shoulders. They came up with a plastic bucket and were taking donations to support a political candidate. Not contributing seemed like a bad option when the soliciting party was armed. $10 got us on our way into the mountains.

The American Scheme

If you wonder how America got to its present state of bipolar dysfunction, the answer is the interbreeding of media, corporate interests, and political ambitions, which combine to destroy scrutiny of right and wrong. It wasn't long ago when lying and exaggeration ruined a politician’s career.

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