Common Sense

This letter was on the Opinion Page of today’s Trib.
Murtha didn’t learn
A Marine [who led the unit involved in killing of civilians in Haditha] has sued Congressman Jack Murtha for defamation.
Even though Murtha wore the uniform once, he failed to learn the most important lessons of being a soldier: honor, duty, country, humility, civility, respect.
Clyde […]

Note to New York Republican John Spencer: If you’re going to compare Hillary Clinton to Osama bin Laden, at least learn to spell “fascist” correctly in your TV ads.
Among the myriad things wrong with his ad, the most glaring was the mispelling of fascist. The other most glaring thing was that Hillary Clinton’s picture was […]

Commentor LDiablo alluded to the local controversy about the McLennan County Commissioners Court deciding to give themselves a big raise. They had already voted on giving all county workers a 3% cost-of-living increase, but their own pay hike is four times that.
The public outcry has been huge, and today, all but one commissioner decided to […]

You can help send stuff to a needy marine in Iraq care of Pink Dome. He’s sending his care package this weekend, so you have time to email him for the address or to donate via PayPal.

It has been quite some time since I wrote of our old friend Bow Tie Boy. He switched to MSNBC in the afternoons and I really didn’t feel like setting my DVR to record a douchebag on purpose.
That may have to change.
It sounds like the answer to a “Jeopardy!” question gone terribly wrong: Jerry Springer, […]

I read this story this morning, or at least I scanned it to the part about “euthanasia” before I got a little weirded out. Apparently, your inbox is a “mirror” of your personality. What they don’t discuss are those of us with gmail who don’t have to delete anything or keep anything in the inbox. […]

Dell has issued a recall on 4.1 million laptop batteries.
Dell Inc. said Monday it will recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they can overheat and catch fire. Dell negotiated conditions of the recall with the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission, which called it the largest electronics-related recall ever conducted by the agency.
A Dell spokesman […]

Cindy Sheehan seems to be doing better after being hospitalized due to exhaustion and dehydration. Not the Lindsay Lohan kind, the Gandhi kind. She was on a hunger strike, fasting for over a month, then she came to Texas, where we’ve been at triple digits almost every day for a month.
RoT chooses to make light […]

Dear Friend,
As many of you know, I have spent the last four weeks driving across Texas and talking to as many people as I can about the future of Texas agriculture. I am grateful to each of you who has taken the time to meet with me or write me.
I want you to know I […]

Say adios to Ben “Los Hairplugs” Bentzin, he is out of the race in HD-48. Not that it is really a surprise, considering he has raised exactly no money since his crushing loss to Democrat Donna Howard in the spring special election. The surprise is that it took him this long to say it.
“Donna Howard […]