Archive for July 2025

We all heard about this yesterday. See this from the Trib: State Sen. Angela Paxton announced Thursday she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, said in a post on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not…

Texas Monthly reads Commentary. I said this yesterday about Gov. Greg Abbott’s response at a presser on Tuesday: His response was borderline bizarre and one hundred percent pathetic. Then Texas Monthly put out a story about Abbott’s response and here is the headline: Greg Abbott’s Bizarre Postflood Football Analogy Here is the entire Texas Monthly…

The media is just doing its job. Commentary is talking about journalists covering the Hill Country flooding and trying to figure out what went wrong. Yesterday, Gov. Greg Abbott participated in a flyover of the ravaged Texas Hill Country. Afterwards, the governor with his entourage in tow stood before the media to answer a few…

One year ago today, Hurricane Beryl hit the H-Town area. In today’s Chron, CenterPoint purchased a full-page ad saying they are better prepared. In my book, better prepared means not as many will lose power during the next hurricane, and for those that lose power, power is restored quickly. We will see. _____ The Trib…

This about sums up what an idiot is. See this from the Chron: Houston Mayor John Whitmire is taking steps to permanently remove a member of the city’s food insecurity board following racial comments she made on social media about the devastating flooding in the Hill Country that decimated Camp Mystic, a private summer camp for girls. Sade Perkins…

Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light,What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro’ the perilous fight,O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in airGave proof thro’ the night that our flag was still there.Oh,…

I have been paying attention to the current debate in Congress. It is obvious that MAGA is not interested in good public policy. They are more interested in pleasing Donald Trump. I am still waiting for a Democratic member of Congress to tell MAGA to “kiss my big, beautiful, butt.” _____ Commentary said this yesterday:…

Diddy or didn’t he. I guess he did on two of the charges and didn’t on the other three. We will know this afternoon if he is released from jail. If he is released, will fellow celebs continue to hang with him. Probably. Come on now. We are in an era where January 6 insurrectionists…

June, she’ll change her tuneIn restless walks she’ll prowl the nightJuly, she will flyAnd give no warning to her flight That’s from “April Come She Will” put out by Simon and Garfunkel in 1966 and written by Paul Simon. Hello, July. _____ This happened yesterday in Pasadena. See this from Houston Public Media: Many forms…