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"What is Truth?"

When "alternative facts" become gospel.

The Little Pink Rabbit on Highway 83

By the end of 2024, at least 80 people had died in Operation Lone Star pursuits, including children and bystanders. Even some officers began to question the chase policy. “We’re not stopping the cartels,” said one DPS trooper anonymously. “We’re just chasing shadows and wrecking families.”

Trump

The Texas Template

MAGA Texas politicians have taken the infamous Parr political family’s petri dish out of the historical closet and studied it for tips on how to destroy democracy for fun and profit, and Trump is learning from their research.

Trump

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.

Maybe this is how it all ends.

Texas Politics

Everything is Political

When football teams make mistakes - to use Abbott's metaphor - 300 people don’t die. Kerr County officials and the state avoided funding a flood warning system, in one instance, because the money was from the Biden administration. They didn’t want no stanky Democratic President’s money.

Texas Politics

Judge Not, Lest You Aren't Elected

...marching as to war.

Texas Politics

The Three Pendejos!

The idea that "no one could have seen this coming," or that "nothing could have been done," being repeated by officials is just a deflective exercise in CYA. (Cover Your Ass.) And did you know that Ken Paxton had an affair?

Texas Politics

Rivers of Tears

The Texas Governor and Lt. Governor are two of the most disingenuous people in American politics, posturing and praying before cameras instead of taking actions that could save lives in the future. Their magical thinking in the wake of human disasters is disgusting.

Culture

Grannie Dannie Needs a Gummie, Bezos Bought a Bride

The same old story: Married nerd father meets married Fox TV anchor mom. Married nerd almost loses married TV anchor, but whips out a pic of his... balance sheet. Nerd and TV anchor hook up and tangle like a couple of meth infused weasels.

Trump

I, Love a Parade

By all accounts, the whole Trump parade thing seemed pretty dull. It was less Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will" and more Bill Murray's "Stripes."

Texas Politics

"Thank God for Mississippi"

There isn’t a litter box in Texas big enough to contain the bullshit in his allegations that children are going to school dressed as cats and that teachers and administrators are accommodating them with littler boxes in classrooms.

Texas Politics

Loving Texas is Hard Sometimes

The Texas of my imagination collides with Dan Patrick.

Trump

Texas: Furry Dildo Roundup Time

OPSEC is good... so we can confirm Signal chat intercepted by morons. The Furries are frightening. THC may put you in the TDC. And they're coming for your dildos. Repeat: They're coming for your dildos.

Border

Children of the Cane

It appeared a teenaged goat herder had been shot dead by a U.S. Marine on an anti-drug deployment. Esequiel had wanted to be Marine and had a recruiting poster hanging above his bed. When his death was confirmed, Esequiel’s younger brother tore the picture from the wall in their parents’ adobe home.

Immigration

Down on the Rio Grande

The border is booming but the economic expansion is at risk because of the new American president. Consider that exports from Texas supported more than 1 million jobs in this state and we exported $129.5 billion of goods to Mexico in 2023.

Texas Politics

What's the Matter with Texas?

“The rest of this country’s lost its goddamned mind,” I heard one of them say. “They say he is gonna win again.” "I’d sure as hell let him know we don’t like the idea of no damn n****r in our White House. Don’t matter how much time he spent at Harvard, he’s still a n****r and it ain’t right.”

Guns

Cemetery America

"We avert our eyes from the cause and nod sadly at the effect, but take no steps to prescribe a solution. The culture of the gun in the U.S. has lost no battles in the modern era. Our politics keep fertilizing the bloody fields with fewer and fewer controls."

Religion

Boxing with God

"Tonight at 7:00 p.m., Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick will join Matt Crouch, Chairman of Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Dr. Phil for a thought-provoking discussion: whether President Trump’s survival of the recent assassination attempt was a mere stroke of luck or divine intervention."

Election

The Tortilla Curtain

No matter how often Greg Abbott and Trump lie about her being a failed “border czar,” Harris’ responsibility was to mitigate the root causes of migration, which, unsurprisingly, she accomplished.

culture wars

When the Elite Meet to Eat

"You ain't gonna get any nouveau, amandine, thin crust, bottled water, sauteed city food. Food's brown, hot, and plenty of it." -Cookie, the Chuck Wagon cook in "City Slickers"

education

Darwin, Schmarwin. My Kid Ain't Learnin' That!

How about we just call it, "counter-indoctrination?"

War

When Johnny Came Home

The odds of Johnny Mata encountering harm or great danger were considered minimal. But Nancili Mata knew her husband, and it made her worry while her family expressed confidence.

Texas Politics

Darlin' of the Devil

Label it evil: the drowning of immigrants, the dismantling of public education, children that go without healthcare, pardoning murderers, and making sure the next school shooter can buy a gun unimpeded. It's the work of a Devil.

Economy

The War on Youth

The Greatest and Silent Generations understood the importance of a social contract. After having experienced World Wars and the Great Depression, they understood the need to build community. Then their kids (that's us, btw,) got greedy.

national politics

Cracks in the American Mosaic

I brought the contradictions up with Geiorge W. Bush during an off-camera interview in 2004 and asked him how he could reconcile the inherent meanness of the strategy with who he was as a person, and all he said was, “It’s just politics, Jimmy.”

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