“It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.” Alice…in Wonderland
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Happy Independence Day, Texas
A few choice quotes on the finest state in the finest nation on this beautiful blue sphere: “Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today’s Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.” Edna Ferber “I am forced […]
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Terrible Tuesday
Today is the first day of the “full schedule Tuesday” that will run through the beginning of November. Occupational therapy, Girl Scouts, softball. And it’s not actually the “full schedule,” next week could add a tee ball and/or a baseball game to the mix. Terrible Tuesday, indeed. Links! On the topic of education, Seth Godin […]
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Hey, look! It’s a statesman!
Have you forgotten what one of those looks like? Well, take a gander. David Simpson is the Texas House Representative from Longview who sponsored the anti-groping legislation to reign in the TSA, at least in Texas. Thanks to the Republican Speaker of the House, “The Honorable” Joe Strauss, the bill was killed. This is Mr. […]
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Victory and Defeat
One hundred seventy-five years ago yesterday, the Texian defenders of the Alamo fell to General Santa Ana. Lead by Lt. Col. William Travis and Jim Bowie, the 150 to 250 men (accounts vary), stood for 13 days against a far superior (numerically) force. All the defenders were killed during battle or executed by the Mexican […]
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A zoological expedition
Yesterday, MTG took the day off and we packed up the van for a day at the Fort Worth Zoo. It was homeschool day, which I didn’t realize until we got there. We got half price tickets AND no school field trips were there. SCORE! A subsection of this market is dedicated to Anti-ED medicines, […]
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The last message of William Travis
Lt. Col. William Travis arrived at the Alamo on February 3. On March 3, he sent the last of several messages to the outside world, including this letter to David Ayers, the man caring for his son. Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make for him a […]
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175 years of pissing people off
On March 2, 1836, Texas declared its independence from Mexico. Like all children in Texas public schools, I received a year of Texas History, where I learned important things like the “true story” of the Yellow Rose of Texas. I also studied Texas Independence and read of the earlier “Green Revolution, but I have never […]
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State of the Fair
Yesterday, the family made the great journey to the Texas State Fair. Last year, the girls and I took a quick look around before we saw “Mary Poppins” at the Music Hall. But this was the first year we truly went to the fair. It was lots of fun. And delicious. It is a […]
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Texas goes the extra mile!
Most states would be content with just one crazy running for statewide office, perhaps as a third party candidate. Pikers. Texas is proud to have
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To the polls!
Next week, (some) Texans will go to the polls to vote on 11 Constitutional Amendments. We’re always voting on amendments because our post-Reconstruction constitution is a veritable straight-jacket. For example, in 1932 this amendment was adopted: For the Constitutional Amendment authorizing counties and cities bordering on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico by a […]
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