Common Sense

OK, I lied, I’m still posting about the anniversary of 9/11. But I have good reason to, and that’s the special comment offered by Keith Olbermann on Monday’s Countdown.
Olbermann has offered several special comments as of late, and who could blame him. I’m sure, like many of us, he is just now disgusted by the […]

I just want to write one last thing about 9/11 and then we can get back to writing about pornstars and whatnot.
There are two stories from that day that seem so eerily fortuitous that one has to wonder at the existence of some higher being pulling the strings. But both these stories also involve a […]

I didn’t read the actual paper for Monday, I left early last night to go home. But when I read the letters to the editor online, this one struck me as being overtly racist. His line of demarcation for when things turned bad in Waco ISD is integration in the 1960s.
Don’t diss old-time Wacoans
Carlos Sanchez […]

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks. America has become quite a different place in that time. That day led us into a global war on Islamic fundamentalist and has ripped at the very fabric that holds this country together. What started out as the most unified we have ever been has […]

That’s right, 40 years ago today Charles Whitman massacred people from the observation deck of the tower on the University of Texas at Austin campus before finally being taken down by a cop.
The Statesman has a really good series of stories, from a retelling of the tale, to an interview with Houston McCoy, the officer […]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is doing very well and sparking widespread interest in pirates. It’s not just kitschy costumes, people want the real deal.
Today’s Corpus Christi Caller-Times tells us that a pirate museum just opened in their neck of the woods.
The Pirate and Smuggling Museum is now open on Padre Island.
Curator […]

Two funny stories actually. On the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, in 1826, John Adams lay dying just before he slipped away, his last words were “Thomas Jefferson lives.” It’s funny for two reasons, and funny weird not funny haha. One, Thomas Jefferson, although he was a fellow founding father […]

One president… two presidents?! Both candidates in the Mexican presidential election have declared victory, leaving the Mexican people wishing for the rule of Maximillian again (today is going to be filled with history lessons).
MEXICO CITY — A “haves vs. the have-nots” presidential election was too close to call early Monday, as two leading candidates declared […]

In a letter dated July 3, 1776, John Adams wrote of the previous day:
“But the Day is past. The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America.- I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought […]