Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 13)

Anti-Social Media

It's like electronic crack, and there's no 12 step program for it.

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.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: Live Forever Edition

We missed it. Sure, you clicked the Ticketmaster "Buy" button about 5 million times and finally scored your tween and her pals some $800 Taylor Swift tickets. (Don't forget to take several hundred bucks for a T-shirt!) But the ticket that you really wanted was the

education

Teach Your Children Well

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

Food

Vegan, Vegetarian or Texatarian (plant-based with Texas-specific meat days): How is Life for the Herbivorous in Texas?

In the land known for meat on the grill and animal footwear bragging rights, it used to be a brave move to go vegan. But today the plant-based food culture in Texas is in play.

Texas Politics

Soylent Red, White and Blue

A modest proposal for those wacky pranksters in Austin. Bon appétit!

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: All the Blowing Up of Things Edition

News anchor careers, big-ass rockets, possibly an old hotel, maybe the debt ceiling, and hopefully the DeSantis campaign. All Blowed up. Blowed up real good.

Abortion

A Wake-Up Call for the Un-Woke: A Recent Washington Post headline - "Abortion ban states see steep drop in OB/GYN residency applicants"

Scrapping a medical residency application is no small act. Med school grads send out dozens of applications because they’re trying to “match,” or get accepted into a program---the greatest fear is not being picked up. Why risk being shut out when applying for residency in an anti-abortion state?

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 History

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

The dilemma of the Luther Hotel in Palacios is an illustration of why we can't have nice things.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: The Fire Still Burns Edition

A packed issue this week, so pace yourself. I'll lead off with a piece that I've been working on for a while. Today marks a significant anniversary. Fire tore through the Branch Davidian compound thirty years ago, and it is not an exaggeration to say that

US History

Diamonds (and the Waco Fire) Are Forever

30 years ago today, the Branch Davidian compound outside of Waco, TX went up in flames. 78 Davidians including their messianic leader, David Koresh died in the conflagration. For 51 days, hundreds of reporters from all over the world covered the siege, standoff, and fire. It was surreal.

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

national politics

Whatever He's For, I'm Against

Our politics have gotten so trivial, we're down to drag queens, light beer, M&Ms, and Cracker Barrel. We're doing this at the expense of things, important things, that need doing.

Guns

Using the Second Amendment to Battle the First Amendment

Another example of the thousand cuts extremist Republicans employ to sabotage democracy.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: Bud Light Edition

And now, there's a beer boycott. So you can't drink America's beer while not watching America's game. (You do remember there's a boycott of the NFL, right?) Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney. Mulvaney showed off

Texas Politics

Slow Motion Secession

What kind of world is it when the coach of an NBA team has more courage to speak the truth than the governor of our state?

Black History

A Tale of Two Thomases

Is the Universe a factory of human prototypes? Some people have similar facial features or gestures but they're not from the same family, race or nation. (Sounds strange, but go with me.) Now ask - are there personality types that repeat throughout history in the same way issues and events reoccur?

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

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers' Newsletter: The Fools of April Enter Holy Week Edition

Did you get punked or pranked on April 1? The Washington Post published a helpful list of all the pranks that they could find. Most are celebrity silliness, and there were a lot of phony products or services publicized by their brands in an effort for a little viral social

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.

Trump

Privilege Gone Wild: Are we tired of it yet?

Time to stop ignoring the elephants in our political room. Supporting a leader with unbridled privilege & anti-American tenets is sick. Narcissism and privilege go together like dysfunctional twins. Psychologists know why those afflicted can become destructive and dangerous to themselves and others.

Economy

The Debt Ceiling Dance (No Twerking, Marj)

From the time George Washington raised his right hand and swore to support the Constitution and get better dentures, until right now, the country has been in hock. After getting us out of debt, Old Hickory could concentrate on his benevolent treatment of Native-Americans - like the Trail of Tears.

Texas Outlaw Writers' Newsletter: Just Another School Shooting Edition

What is there to say, to write? Three 9-year-olds and three elementary school staffers were slaughtered in a shooting in Nashville, TX Monday morning. By the time you read this, they'll have had the candlelight vigil. There will be the usual calls for gun reform. There will be

Guns

(More) Random Thoughts About Gun Love

There is a way to prevent this and we know what it is. And if anyone cared to read the Constitution beyond the 2nd Amendment, they'd see that we have gotten it all wrong for years.

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