Common Sense

(Ed. note: It took a whole week to figure out a decent title for this post. I passed on If loving you is Wong, I don’t want to be Right, To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything and Wong Turn.)
The gist of this Houston Press story is that Rep. Martha Wong is too conservative for her […]

Apparently, if you put strippers into a crowd, you can’t tell them from regular folk. Even if those strippers are in bikinis.
Maddox, manager of a San Antonio strip club that planned to send about 100 customers floating down the Comal River on Sunday at $25 a tube, said strippers have the right to tube just […]

The New York Times just put a story up on the Web that quotes someone inside the International Cycling Union claiming Floyd Landis’ B sample of urine from Stage 17 of the Tour de France has synthetic testosterone in it.
During a news conference in Madrid on Friday, Landis said: “We will explain to the world […]

Why We Fight premieres in Waco, Aug. 10
On Thursday, August 10, Friends of Peace will present the Waco premiere
of Why We Fight, a documentary feature about the American war machine.
The film weaves unforgettable personal stories with commentary by a
“who’s who” of military and beltway insiders: John McCain, Gore Vidal,
William Kristol, Chalmers Johnson, Richard Perle and […]

She’s fighting over there, so we don’t have to drive behind her slow ass here.
TUCSON, Ariz. – When Laurie-Ann Fuca said she was joining the Army, her friends “laughed their heads off.” After all, she is 41.
“They said, ‘No way – not you!’ ” Ms. Fuca said as she prepared to pack her duffel bag […]

After a long Friday night spent playing dominos, which I didn’t understand and did not care to, I spent the majority of my weekend in bed. When you can’t walk without pain, you kinda don’t see the point in getting up and doing something.
I know that had to piss Space Monkey off since we were […]

The Republicans are offering a deal to raise the minimum wage, but only with a cut in the estate tax.
A package GOP leaders planned to bring to a vote Friday or Saturday in the House also would renew several popular tax breaks, including a research and development credit for businesses, and deductions for college tuition […]

Mayor Ken Shetter of Burleson emails to ask
Only “reasonably intelligent”???

Regarding my assessment of his remarks. I’ll concede that it was intelligent, but not exactly profound. Anyone who uses the “city on a hill” reference isn’t really trying in my book.

Yes, today Carole something or other dropped her lawsuit asking appear on the ballot in November as “Grandma.” Principally because that would confuse voters who would think they are voting for their actual grandma. And she realized it was a stupid lawsuit.
Calling it a critical time in the governor’s race, Strayhorn said further legal action […]

I can’t help but think President Bush is thinking of that axiom when he learned that Cindy Sheehan has bought five acres of land near his Prairie Chapel “ranch” in Crawford.
The group she helps lead, Gold Star Families for Peace, says on its Web site that it will return next month to Crawford to protest […]