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One of the great things about living in the same area as most of my family is that I can wake up late and drive the ten minutes over to my grandmother’s house on holidays. The bad part is that it also means that I never get to go anywhere. Couldn’t I have [...]
A U.S. marine shot and killed an injured Iraqi insurgent inside a Fallujah mosque last week. The incident has touched off a storm of media coverage because a reporter managed to catch the shooting on tape. It appears that the Iraqi was unarmed at the time of the shooting and that he did [...]
It’s often said in Texas that if you don’t like the weather, just stick around for a while. During the past week, we went through a span where it rained nearly every day. The Austin area averages about 32 inches of precipitation annually, but we’ll often go several months without any significant rain, [...]
The boy king speaks. His time ran out before he got to the part about blowing sunshine up his ass.
“The administration I’ll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what’s best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country [...]
When I was a child, I would regularly read all of the usual periodicals for kids, including Jack & Jill and Highlights. But the one thing I always looked forward to receiving in the mail came from Weekly Reader Books in a package that posed the question, “Have you visited the town of Sweet [...]
You’ve probably heard by now that Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake were involved in an altercation with photographers outside a hotel in Los Angeles last Saturday. Apparently Diaz used her Charlie’s Angels training to land a couple of karate chops on one photographer’s neck, and then tripped him and grabbed his camera. According [...]
During the summers of my childhood, I would sometimes wake up early in the morning and sit with my father while he ate breakfast before going to work. I was fascinated with the way he would carefully measure out exact portions of cereal and milk. When he left, I would stand on the [...]
A reader recently commented that he would point me to the “absolute truth of the Holy Bible” if I were the type of person that set aside rational thought and analysis. Although we have vastly different ideas about the role of religion, I am not a person without faith. To quote Gary Hart:
Liberals [...]
The exit polls seem to indicate that many people (even a majority) that voted for Bush did so because of social issues. While I’m sure there are those that support his view of the war in Iraq, and the greater threat of terrorism, it’s arguable that those issues were not responsible for the increased [...]
Although it often seemed that it would never arrive, Election Day is finally upon us. Most of what can be said about the choice that we are presented with in 2004 has already been said. It has been left in our hands. Will we stand up for the ideals of progress and [...]
I’m departing from my usual topic oriented posts to bring you a Monday morning slice of life. Yep, I’m one step away from telling you what I ate for breakfast. Oh, the horror.
Don’t get too excited by our ultra hip lifestyle, but we spent Halloween over at my grandparent’s house in North Austin [...]