Common Sense

A lot of people are taking an inordinant amount of delight in the recent rumblings and scandal now known as Kosola. The most recent being David Brooks of the New York Times.
The claim is that Markos is influenced by his friend Jerome, and Jerome is influenced by whomever is paying him to be a consulant. […]

(Ed. note: I told Spacemonkey ‘Go forth and find me news so that I may avoid writing about porn.’ This I command. He actually llistened to me, go figure.)
From Spacemonkey’s Myspace page:
For those of you who haven’t heard yet, Roy Graham’s book “Cowboy Mafia” looks like it is going to be made into a movie. […]

That’s all I could think of when I read this story about a Congressman making light of Helen Thomas, sent in by one of my super readers.
Capitol Hillbillies
Congressman apologizes for Helen Thomas slur
By The Associated Press
Jun 22, 2006, 00:33
An Iowa congressman apologized Wednesday for disparaging comments he made last week at the state Republican convention […]

How could I not read the story?
Plan to donate brain to science went awry
Good job on the copy desk at the Statesman.

Mike McIlvain is doing a story on blogging for LareDOS, a monthly published along the border, and he emailed me asking for a few quotes. Hopefully, we’ll see a lot about me and my opinions on bloging in next month’s issue.

Sasha Grey calls me at 2 in the morning. I’m watching a rerun of The District (not by choice). I say “It’s good to finally here from you.”

“Yeah, my agent wanted me to do a lot of interviews especially Luke Ford, but I promised to do yours first.”

I feel special. I could just give you […]

Why not try the exciting world of blogging about tax policy?

Do you or someone you know want to make a positive contribution to the future of Texas? Is this person a people person? Does this person love travel? Do they enjoy seeing sights like the giant mule in Muleshoe? Are they internet savvy, having always […]

I slept a large chunk of the day, but when I did get up I was horrified to discover that I had no cable and no Internet. It was very, very painful. I mean, what am I going to do, read a book?
So I didn’t get around to reading a lot of news this morning. […]

I said I would take today off, but I’m up early so I’ll at least post some photos and give a big shout out to my friend Rep. Aaron Pena. You can view more photo’s at Anna’s Flickr account.

I’m all about the segues this morning.
This came from a bulletin from a close friend on my Myspace list:
RAPIST ON MYSPACE
Body: Body: * re-post this this is very important
RAPIST ON MYSPACE!! NOT A JOKE
WARNING EVERYONE READ!! RAPIST ON MYSPACE LOOK OUT
please read, , , NOT A JOKE….
State police warning for online: Please read this “very […]