Common Sense

Both flag burning amendments failed to get the requisite 67 votes in the Senate today. The Republican measure was one vote shy and had some notable GOP defectors: Sens. Mitch McConnell, Bob Bennett and Lincoln Chafee.
Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat, had alternate flag protecting legislation. His amendment would have protected the flag in four certain […]

Carter’s tirade stops Voting Rights Act:
calls for literacy test, claims “no racial bias in Texas”.
Dear Nathan Nance,
You may well be embarrassed - possibly stunned - even outraged, when […]

Professional help. Reading what Lindsay does and what her publicist then says she does, I have to assume that she is going through the five stages of grieving. She has now arrived at the denial stage.
Lindsay flew Nate [no, I don’t double as Lohan’s stylist on the weekends… at least I don’t think I do] […]

The Spider-Man 3 trailer is out now… but I say screw that. I’m not going to go see that movie anyway. What I am going to see is Snakes on a Plane, so let’s look at that trailer one more time. The new one. Or the old one.

I’m feeling bad, cut me some slack.
BOR has the June SUSA governor numbers and some commentary on the crosstabs:
1,200 Texas adults were interviewed 6/23/06 - 6/25/06. Of them, 1,007 were Registered Voters. Of them, 576 were judged to be “likely” voters. MoE ± 4.2%

Candidate
June
May
April

Rick Perry (R)
35%
(41%)
(39%)

Kinky Friedman (I)
21%
(16%)
(16%)

Chris Bell (D)
20%
(18%)
(15%)

Carole Strayhorn (I)
19%
(20%)
(25%)

Other
2%
(1%)
(3%)

Undecided
3%
(3%)
(3%)

Statistically, it’s a three-way […]

Paul Stekler wrote a post for Pink Lady on ITPT (why is it I don’t have cool people guest posting here?). It turns out he worked on a campaign for William Jefferson some odd years back.
In a vain attempt at hopping on the Stekler wagon, I will point you to the picture of me, Eileen […]

Plano Episcopal church to pull out
Christ Church Episcopal in Plano, one of the largest Episcopal congregations in the United States, has announced that it will leave the denomination over what it sees as the Episcopal Church’s leftward drift…
“The mission of Christ Church is to make disciples and teach them to obey the commands […]

It’s summer. I know because I feel like crap; my sinuses are clogged and all I want to do is sleep and wait for it to be over.
I’ve been talking about the Ann Coulter review for a few weeks now, but I haven’t done it. I think, psychologically, I’ve been looking for excuses to do […]

I haven’t really written about it before, but I talk about Snakes on a Plane on a daily basis. I’ve even perfected my Sam Jackson impersonation to quote lines from the movie. Guess which one, go ahead, guess.
So with the new trailer, let me go ahead and give my wholehearted endorsement of Snakes on a […]

Dear Fellow Democrat,
As Chairman of our Party and the Democratic Nominee for Governor, we are writing you today to ask you to help our friend Glen Maxey.
Glen ran a spirited campaign for Chair of our party, and spurred a serious discussion about the future for Democrats in our state. We […]