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Nope. Not W the former president. Commentary is talking about the 43 college football bowl games that get underway this morning with the Bahamas Bowl from Nassau, Bahamas featuring UAB and Miami of Ohio. Rice plays tomorrow against Southern Mississippi in the Lending Tree Bowl in Mobile, Alabama. UH plays Louisiana in next Friday’s Independence Bowl in Shreveport, Louisiana. The bowl season concludes with the College Football Playoff Championship on January 9 in Inglewood, California. Surprisingly, there are no college bowl games on Christmas Day or New Year’s Day.
That is certainly a lot of college football. I will probably only watch a few. Got it?
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I applaud State Sen, Roland Gutierrez for the following in the Tribune:
WASHINGTON — Texas state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who represents Uvalde, lambasted the emergency response to the Robb Elementary School shooting as “the worst response to a mass shooting in our nation’s history” during a congressional hearing Thursday.
“It was system failure, it was cowardice,” Gutierrez said. He joined family members and supporters of the victims in calling for stronger federal action to prevent gun violence.
Here is the entire Trib read: Roland Gutierrez blasts Uvalde police response in congressional hearing | The Texas Tribune.
Cowardice.
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This was also in the Trib this week:
Despite the state’s near-total ban on abortion, just 12% of Texans think abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to an August poll from The Texas Politics Project. One Texas Democrat hopes to give voters more of a say in abortion policy.
State Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, filed a joint resolution that would bar the Legislature from restricting abortion access any further. Talarico’s proposal is different from a normal bill filed for the Legislature to consider. Joint resolutions, once passed by the Legislature by a two-thirds majority, must be approved by Texas voters in a statewide election as a ballot proposition before they directly amend the state’s constitution.
Here is the entire Trib read: Texas abortion law likely won’t end up at the ballot box | The Texas Tribune.
It is probably a good thing it won’t make the ballot. Texas Democrats can’t seem to win statewide elections these days.
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This is from the Chron today:
The statewide ballot rejection rate dramatically reduced to 2.7 percent in the general election this fall after it had skyrocketed to six times that in the primaries following the introduction of a Republican-backed change to mail ballot ID requirements, state data shows.
And this:
Harris County, the state’s largest county with almost 3 million voters registered, lagged behind most large counties with about 4.5 percent of ballots tossed.
4.5% rejection is way too many in my book.
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Commentary is not a royal watcher. I am not going to see the documentary. I only see what comes across the news. I will say this. They sure did pi_s off Prince Harry.
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If you like Christmas tunes and have the SiriusXM app, you can listen to Billboard’s Top 112 Christmas tunes. You will likely disagree with the rankings. They have Bobby Helms’s “Jingle Bell Rock” at number 3. Ok.
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Commentary mentions the economics of MLB from time to time. You know, the kazillion bucks for a Saint Arnold at The Yard. Chron Sports columnist Jerome Solomon has a column today on Carlos Correa and his huge new contract. Here are a couple of lines that pretty much describe MLB economics:
Will Correa, 28, be overpaid late in this 13-year contract with San Francisco? Almost certainly.
But we’re talking about a guy who was grossly underpaid in his first six years.
Yep.