Common Sense

Strippers, floating down a river. I’ve had so many dreams that start that way.
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — In the midst of attempts to crack down on raunchy and rowdy behavior during traditional summertime tubing river trips through this city, a San Antonio topless club is planning a tubing excursion featuring strippers.
Trey Maddox, a manager at […]

Every year in Waco, the local Planned Parenthood and a number of other businesses sponsor a children’s sex education program called Nobody’s Fool. Basically, they divide kids up by gender and school grade to give them age-appropriate information.
Not everybody likes that, though. They want kids to only be taught about abstinence and to use information […]

With my own stupidity. I made it all the way down the stairs to the breakroom to get a soda… and realized I left my wallet on my desk. When thirst and pain collide, no good can come of it.

I wonder if this guy will be classified as a judicial activist.
A federal judge has barred the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission from seizing material it deems obscene without getting a ruling from a judge, saying the practice violates the constitutional protection of free speech.
U.S. District Judge Gray Miller, ruling in a lawsuit by a distributor […]

An idea whose time has come.
AUSTIN – The car you drive, the magazines you read, the catalogs you buy from, the house and neighborhood where you live and your voting pattern have been gathered by Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign – and others. It helps them know which button to push to win your vote.
Such consumer-based, […]

I went back to the doctor’s office today. It was a last minute call since I was in an unbelievable amount of pain when I got home and all day today. A definite 9 on the pain scale.
I want to stick with the physical therapy since I absolutely want to avoid surgery if at all […]

Sweet Jesus, Keith Olbermann is funny.
PASADENA, Calif. — Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Roger Ailes responded to Keith Olbermann’s latest critical volley against Bill O’Reilly on Monday, saying the MSNBC host’s behavior “is over the line.”Ailes, appearing Monday at the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association, was referring to a weekend incident at […]

I’ve got lots of good comments lately, keep it up people.

I love Commissioner Lester Gibson. He makes an otherwise dull county government sparkle with excitement, like a soap opera. This week’s episode: Man’s Worst Friend?
Commissioner Lester Gibson had asked for a general discussion and possibly action this morning about what he had placed on the agenda as “animals in county facilities policy.”
Although Gibson went out […]

As mentioned yesterday, the American Bar Association has some problems with President Bush and his signing statements.
WASHINGTON — President Bush has vetoed only one piece of legislation during more than five years in office, but he has issued more than 800 challenges to bills that he has signed into law with formal “signing statements,” more […]