Common Sense

I’ve been wrapped up in work at the Trib. It is football season after all. That means I work 5-6 days a week, daytime on Mondays and that my sleep cycle is thoroughly wrecked. I haven’t gotten a decent 7 hours of straight sleep in forever.
And I’m practically living off of take-out Chinese food and […]

From the Desk of
Jim Dunnam
State Representative, District 57
 
            I want to take this opportunity to ask you to join me in welcoming State Representative Rick Noriega to Waco.  Rick is running for the United States Senate and I would invite you to come visit with Rick and see what he is about.  I have […]

The only time I have ever said “Hey, I think Rick Perry is right,” (and it was hard to say. I had to have a shot of gin afterward.) was when he wrote the executive order to vaccinate every girl over the age of 12 with Gardasil to prevent infection with certain strains of HPV […]

I can’t for the life of me figure out why we needed HB 167 this past session and which goes into effect Sept. 1. If you don’t know what I mean, then read this description of the law:
Relating to exempting a religious bible from attachment, execution, or other seizure for the satisfaction of debts.

Has there […]

(Ed note: I knew adding a whole category category tag for Gina Parker would come in handy.)
My local harpie, Gina Parker, is circulating a piece around the capitol crowd (pdf) accusing Paul Burka and the others at Texas Monthly or being racist, sexist and “wine and brie Democrats.”
Obviously I can’t let this stand. […]

Like that protest this morning at Chet’s office. An enterprising reporter would have been there, camera in hand ready to take some quotes. I stayed up all night watching the Jaws-athon on Encore and didn’t get to work until after 8 p.m.
Training on the Texas Democratic Party’s Online Voter File System
If you are interested in […]

Everyone was sure he was. In fact, I think he was sure he was. But the Austin American-Statesman says no. And Gardner Selby would know these things.
So that’s that. Ring is still open (ding, ding Chet).
(Ed. Note: I’m not Texas Nate on MyDD. I’m just Nate, which is why I keep demanding you guys all […]

(Ed. note: Joe Weather advises me that this was edited after the fact with animal porn. In my own fantasy world where I  run the control room, I would have gone to YouTube and looked for videos of guys collecting elephant semen… wait, I already did that. Maybe I can get a job working for […]

Because some things just need to be pointed out, like on TV!
Voter fraud in Texas: “It’s a lie.”
Royal Masset knows as much about the nuts and bolts of Republican politics as anyone in Texas.
He spent 15 years as the political director of the Republican Party of Texas. And during that period, Masset invented a […]

I know that anti-abortion protestors can be obtrusive and obnoxious, but I am against spraying 70-year-old women in the face with…
Wait a minute. I don’t really like old people. Fuck ‘em; and fuck this bitch who had nothing better to do than stand in the middle of the road annoying people. Fuck Joe Prickscrotum, too. […]