Texas Outlaw Writers

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To Flaneur is to Fly

To Flaneur is to Fly

I learned the deceptive power of disingenuousness and how it could rot important ideas and institutions. Lost in our abundance, we've created divisions and argue over crumbs while the wealthy walked away with the cake and only looked over their shoulders for a laugh or two, and we have let them.

Nothing New Under the Gun

Nothing New Under the Gun

From the moment Teddy Roosevelt decided the Panama Canal was his personal shortcut to empire, the American narrative in Latin America has been a masterclass in saying one thing and doing another.

Operation: Massive Distractstein

Operation: Massive Distractstein

Plus, we all dip our beaks in sunny Caracas.

The Lucky and the Deranged

The Lucky and the Deranged

One prominent group of TDS sufferers are the Mar-a-Lag-Hos. These are the botoxed, siliconed, stretched, tightened, filled, and puffed ladies and gentlemen who wander the red-carpeted halls of the Trump resort and sometimes the White House.

TV Or Not TV

Stop the presses! No, really, stop it!

A Cosmic Hammer?

A Cosmic Hammer?

"The experience is real to her. I can’t say there are aliens abducting humans. But I have no way to account for what she is experiencing or thinks she is experiencing."

When Science and Civility Are Gone

When Science and Civility Are Gone

If it's the Kennedy Memorial Center, don't you have to be dead to put your name on it?

Midnight in the Garden of Sane and Crazy

Midnight in the Garden of Sane and Crazy

When Marjorie Taylor Greene says "no mas" you know it's gotten bad.

Thankful It's Over - For Now

Thankful It's Over - For Now

Political discord: forgiven and forgotten when smothered in gravy.

Take that, Oslo!

Take that, Oslo!

Someone wake the President! He got a prize.

American Madness

American Madness

"He continues to exhibit a toxic vanity. His self-involved, insensitive remarks are now totally normal stuff from this abnormal human. This used to be an America where presidents measured themselves against history. Trump manages to make a dead soldier’s funeral about his own perceived greatness."

Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition...

Praise the Lord and Pass The Ammunition...

It's all coming undone.

Another Week in Paradise

Another Week in Paradise

Even inter-cranial parasites have only so much tolerance.

OK, Now We're Just Winging It

OK, Now We're Just Winging It

When panic causes mistakes.

The Real Horror of the Epstein Story Isn’t the Crime—it’s the Indifference. (A Personal Story.)

The Real Horror of the Epstein Story Isn’t the Crime—it’s the Indifference. (A Personal Story.)

Children who suffer sexual abuse are forever changed, their brains literally physically altered by their experiences. Meanwhile, the many, many men (and women) who abused them will feel no impact.

Forget Artificial. Can We Just Get Some Intelligence?

Forget Artificial. Can We Just Get Some Intelligence?

The bad guys are always one step ahead.

Hey! I Put Out the Fire! (I started)

Hey! I Put Out the Fire! (I started)

Just when I think I'm out, they drag me back in.

"What is Truth?"

"What is Truth?"

When "alternative facts" become gospel.

The Birdman of the Border - A Halloween Story

personal stories

The Birdman of the Border - A Halloween Story

"Size was not the only feature that put a fright into the cops. The bird had bright red eyes, facial features they said looked like a monkey or a gorilla, and a bald head."

The World Turned Upside Down

The World Turned Upside Down

OK gang, here's where we are in a nutshell. (Spoiler alert: "King George is dead! Long Live King Trump?")

The Little Pink Rabbit on Highway 83

The Little Pink Rabbit on Highway 83

By the end of 2024, at least 80 people had died in Operation Lone Star pursuits, including children and bystanders. Even some officers began to question the chase policy. “We’re not stopping the cartels,” said one DPS trooper anonymously. “We’re just chasing shadows and wrecking families.”

Let Loose the Frogs of War

Let Loose the Frogs of War

With apologies to Shakespeare.

A Soldier's Duty

A Soldier's Duty

"I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other. One of them [soldiers] literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, ‘Fuck them kids.’”

Apocalypse? Maybe Now.

Apocalypse? Maybe Now.

Noonan nailed it.

The Mad King

Like an evangelical minister doing coke rails behind the pulpit, Hegseth paced and preached. “No more division, distraction, and gender delusions. No more debris. As I’ve said before, and will say again: We are done. With that. Shit.” And then he gave them 45 minutes of that shit.