The Hate of the Archbishop
Hillary Clinton came to San Antonio yesterday (February 13) and held her rally at St. Mary's University. St. Mary's is a Catholic university on the west side of our city. It sits in a working class,...
View ArticleMy Texas Two Step Experience
Four hours in line.That's right, four hours. Precinct 3110 in San Antonio, Texas, voted with four other precincts at my children's neighborhood elementary school. After a day at work, I arrived with...
View ArticlePublic Schools in Texas
What's the current stereotype of public schools our right wing brothers and sisters try to spin? Public schools are filled with secular humanists who teach socialist doctrine, global warming lies, and...
View ArticleAny University of Texas Football Fans Tired of This?
Given that my beloved alma mater has signed a deal with ESPN to create the Longhorn Network to televise any and all things University of Texas athletics, I actually anticipated not being able to watch...
View ArticleWhat Drives Me Nuts...
Today, on another blog that will remain nameless, I saw a story about Michelle Bachmann and her performance at Jimmy DeMint's South Carolina Republican presidential softball contest. Not surprisingly...
View Articlemmmm... Republican Fancy Feast
I am in my forties. In fact in a couple of weeks I will turn 42 years old. I have been working since I was 21 in the education field, first as a teacher, then as an assessment specialist in special...
View ArticleRick Perry, the HPV Vaccine and This Dad
As Rick Perry has started his campaign, the many dramas of his tenure as governor in my state have been replayed in my mind. In fact, my father and I have been saying things to each other like: "I...
View ArticlePerry and the TRS
This will be short. One of my favorite reporters Andrew Kroll has released a new article about Rick Perry and his use of the Texas Teacher Retirement System as a tool to reward contributors to his...
View ArticleI'm not Much of a Protester but...
Glenn Beck will be here in San Antonio tomorrow evening at John Hagee's Cornerstone mega-church at his annual "Feast of the Tabernacles." It seems to be a three day festival complete with carnival...
View ArticleMortgage Question
I have always had my money in a credit union. However, when I bought my house last year, eventhough I started at the credit union to get my mortgage, eventually one of the big U.S. banks wound up...
View ArticleI'm a Collectivist Parasite Waging War on my Own Country
I think one of the great mistakes of those of us today who call ourselves liberals (I used to consider myself a mainstream Democrat) was allowing Rush Limbaugh, et al, to peddle hate radio unanswered...
View ArticleNaomi Klein Scares the Hell out of Me
Climate change/global warming scares me. Naomi Klein scares the hell out of me. Have you read her latest article in the Nation? "Capitalism v. the Climate" was my morning reading today and she...
View ArticleMy Governor Ricky Perry Gets Away with this Shit (and Kos actually helps him...
I was watching Keith last night and Kos came on and discussed the idiot running my state right now and his new ad in Iowa. It's a laughable ad, by a laughable candidate and there are plenty of blog...
View ArticleJust to Make My Point About Ricky Perry's Lies
Here is the Madison High School Orchestra and Choir and Band not celebrating Christmas at a local church last year (the school's performing arts center was being constructed through, shock, a bond...
View ArticleFighting Back Against Rush and Clear Channel
I live in San Antonio, the home of Clear Channel Communications the company that employs Rush Limbaugh. His show is broadcast here on WOAI, a station with the nickname "Blowtorch" since its signal at...
View ArticleTed Cruz was Elected by my State
This week I took my two teenage boys to the state capitol building in Austin. The legislature is in session right now and I wanted them to be aware of where the laws of the state are voted on,...
View ArticleThe Real News is in Detroit
I get that CPAC is fun to cover. Listening to the right wing speak to their base and push out one liners crafted for our Twitter society entertains us much like a Steven King novel or movie. We all sit...
View ArticleA Fascinating Radio Feud
I am a sports radio nut. Listening to the soap operas in the world of sports is a great escape from the stress of life. Because I took a job close to Dallas, I began listening to a new sports radio...
View ArticleI Shook Hands with Wendy Davis
What Wendy Davis did last week was amazing. When I was a kid growing up in Austin, my dad was an attorney for a prominent state agency, so I have been in the capitol building often. I remember once...
View Article"Glee" for Wendy Davis
Kathleen Parker is an opinion writer for the Washington Post who got published in my local paper in San Antonio today with an article titled "Too Much Glee Over Abortion Filibuster." As she probably...
View ArticleMy Son Goes to Madison High School
My son goes to San Antonio Madison High School. Today at about 10:30 a.m. I got an email from the school saying that they were on "lock down." This is an unfortunate term that has come into school...
View ArticleI Voted
I gave money today. Money I do not have really. But I voted and gave. C'mon vote. Do it. Or I'll be disappointed. More after the break.
View ArticleMy Son and Orlando
Last fall my fifteen-year-old son told me something that I suspected but did not know for sure. I am sure this blog and others are full of similar stories. He told me on a Sunday night that he needed...
View ArticlePost-Election on Wellesley College Campus
I try to write my posts about how political events directly affect my family. In my opinion if we don’t show folks who vote contrary to their values and economic status what their votes cause, we will...
View ArticleGive me a break I can wear the safety pin
We don’t have time to fight amongst ourselves. I’m wearing a safety pin. It’s not all that I’m doing either. It’s not the main thing I’m doing. But, I’m going to wear the pin. It’s not to insult anyone...
View ArticleWellesley College update
Hardly anyone read or reacted to my post this weekend, but that is fine. These diaries are more cathartic at this point than anything. But, I have an update. I traded texts with my daughter the...
View ArticleWellesley and Babson update
Students from Babson and Wellesley marched from their campuses and met at a park midway between both campuses to speak out against hate and unite in the face of politically motivated hatred. Babson...
View ArticleKonni Burton's Law
So State Senator from Texas Konni Burton has introduced a law for the next session that would “require public schools give parents ‘any general knowledge regarding the parent's child possessed by an...
View ArticleWellesley College Update
Well, I guess I am “out of the loop” so to speak. There has been a lot of activity in this story that I was unaware of down here in Texas where I live. I wish Wellesley College would be doing a little...
View ArticleI'm sinking to new lows
Every day I hope. I hope that some news event will break that somehow reverses what happened on 11/9. I hope that some scandal will break that brings about an inevitable collapse of the Trump machine....
View ArticleWhere is the tipping point?
Monday will be an interesting day in North Dakota. I would imagine you know more of what’s going on there than I do. (I do have a cousin who has actually gone up there for a spell to join the...
View ArticleAn Opportunity through Sports - An Idea for North Carolina Basketball Players...
Today at 5:45 PM on CBS the University of North Carolina will play Kentucky on a neutral court in Las Vegas, Nevada. We all know what is going on in North Carolina post election. The Republican super...
View ArticleDispatches from San Antonio
A year and a half a go after that November disaster my wife and I started some resistance. We joined the ACLU because we feared that people’s freedom would be at risk. We purchased subscriptions to our...
View ArticleMore Dispatches from San Antonio: Our Neighbors Think Kim Jong-Un is Better...
So I’m enjoying my summer Friday (I get Fridays off in the summer by working my 40 Monday through Thursday), and I check the Facebook account. (Ugghh, I know, Facebook. I’ve got to get off of it.) A...
View Article#VichyPress
I am watching AMJoy right now and there is a segment on emerging fascism not just here but around the globe. The guests are outlining the clear pattern of the right wing movement in countries from...
View ArticleWe, the Voters, Were Attacked by Russia: What are WE Going to do About it?
The more I watch this slow descent into fascism and the coverage of it in media, the more I am convinced that the November elections will be a massive moment in US History. And the question to be asked...
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