Carrier Dilemma

I guess since we are fixing to freeze our arses off tomorrow, it is appropriate to welcome the winter today. Hello, winter. _____ Award winning actress Jane Fonda is 85 today and still going strong.  She started acting in flicks in 1960. She is making movies in 2022. I don’t need to tell you about…

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Christmas Tunes

This story in the Trib just came out: Uvalde shooting victims’ care was delayed by medical response | The Texas Tribune. It is shocking. Makes you angry. Thanks to arsehole Gov. Greg Abbott, these folks will get off the hook. There will be no accountability. _____ What’s the deal?  Here is a headline from a…

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Freeze Coming

It looks like 24 to 36 hours of continuous freezing temperature Thursday through Saturday here in H-Town.  Remember the five Ps. Protect people, pets, plants, pipes, and pools, as in the swimming kind. It looks like it will be a cold Christmas Day.  Get ready. _____ This is from Saturday’s Chron: Alex Triantaphyllis, Harris County…

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43

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…

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Deserving

Texas voters have spoken. I don’t know what else to say. I guess we deserve this. This is from the front page of today’s Chron: Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claim nongovernmental organizations at the border that assist immigrants who arrive in Texas may have also helped people cross the…

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Lupe Fraga

The horrible Sandy Hook school shootings happened 10 years ago today. _____ Two years ago today, the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden’s victory as President 306 to 232. Treasonous Donald Trump and his fellow insurrectionists still have not accepted the results. _____ We lost a great one yesterday. Lupe “Champ” Fraga is no longer with…

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Bum Steered

Commentary got a letter from the Chron a few days ago saying the price of the hard copy is going up. I will now be paying like $3.03 on average per day.  Oh, well.  Remember a couple or so months ago when the Chron revisited the issue of the TIRZ. The entity that was originally…

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Reindeer Games

This is from a front-page story in the hard copy of the Chron today: Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for…

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Welcome Home!

Congratulations to my good friend and client State Rep. Christina Morales for being elected Vice-Chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus. Rep. Morales is also my State Rep. _____ CNN contributor Bakari Sellers tweeted this last night about the Brittney Griner swap: Y’all mad Biden went and got an American? Really? Our President went and…

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John Lennon

42 years ago, this evening, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. Howard Cosell announced the breaking news during a Monday Night Football telecast on ABC. John Lennon was 40 years old. I will never forget. _____ The breaking news this morning is Brittney Griner is finally coming home.  Nice job, President Joe Biden.…

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