James C. Moore - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 3)

Adventures of a Young Man: The Searcy Incident

I went into the studio, squeaked up my voice, and recorded: “Serving 22 homes, three gas stations, two donut shops, and ten thousand pickup trucks, this is KNAB, Burlington, Colorado,” which was followed by a tinkling of bells.

Trump

Night, Night, Nikki

Haley’s education and experience exceed the tenth grade in Depression era Mississippi reached by my racist father, but she is acting just as influenced by the ways of the old South. Her wizened, conservative, little heart has been unable to surrender the icons and values of Dixie.

Immigration

Texas: Show Us Your Papers

The dynamics of economies and immigration and politics that made the border a unique culture are turning it into what amounts to a war zone.

Texas Politics

America's Third World

Because Texas is a big and consequential state, often with outsized influence over national political and economic and cultural developments, we have become a kind of petri dish of dumbassery, a place to see what ignorance will grow beyond the lost souls of Abbott and Paxton and Trump’s party.

International Politics

Kissinger's Greatest Crime

The 1968 peace talks to broker an end to the war concluded with the same terms as the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, which resulted in the 1975 collapse of South Vietnam. The unnecessary delay was a product, in significant part, to the ego and ambitions of Henry Kissinger.

Texas Politics

I Remember Texas

Two very close friends of mine are on a northbound plane. They have joined a growing number of Texans who are sick of the endless partisan politics and repressive legislation coming out of Austin, and were, ultimately, driven to leave the home they have always loved.

national politics

The Day Democracy Died

“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” - John Adams

Immigration

"Shoot, Shovel, and Shut Up"

If your answers do not satisfy the law officer, you might be driven hundreds of miles to the border and ordered to get the hell out of Texas and don’t come back, unless you want to end up in prison. You are guilty of nothing more than looking downtrodden.

US History

The Second Casualty

"Nothing seems to have changed in a century and a half. Humans are still killing other humans because of their differing gods or how they look, or the things they believe... and the children still fall first."

personal stories

Boyhood

Much of the culture from south of the Mason-Dixon Line had come north with us in our rattly old cars and cardboard boxes of modest belongings, which meant racism traveled as well as coon hunting.

Immigration

Strangers at the Gate

"Whatever political points Abbott has scored with the Trumptocracy by relocating 50,000 immigrants to predominantly Democratically controlled cities, he has almost certainly inspired more than that number to make the trek toward Texas."

national politics

They're Coming to America

The people of Central America will keep marching northward, hoping for opportunity in the nation that destroyed their countries with its greed.

Travel

The Great American Disconnect

The West never disappoints and when you are saddened by circumstance it revivifies your soul. When you see the soft morning light against the red rocks or the stars beginning to quiver against an obsidian sky, you have the sense that most things are as they should be.

Travel

Roads Unridden

When someone leaves our lives in an untimely manner, we look for signs from them that they are OK, that they hear us. I've never really accepted such ideas, but I had just ridden my late pal's bike through a hard rain squall and was soaking wet as I stood by the road and spoke to an invisible soul.

Texas Politics

Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

The notion that the trial would approach a level of judicial legitimacy ended when Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, the senate’s presiding officer, accepted $3 million from a pro-Paxton group, the Defend Texas Liberty PAC. The organization’s goal? Pushing Texas policies to the right edge of the flat earth.

Texas History

Black Jack's Backlash

Although “Black Jack” spent only about eleven months in pursuit of Villa, he publicly claimed a putative victory by scattering the “Villistas,” revolutionaries who had followed Villa. The general in a letter to a friend, though, acknowledged the failure of his massive endeavor.

Border

Born Between Two Cupboards

"I was naïve and knew nothing of hurricanes but thought I had been clever by evading the evacuation order. In a phone booth in front of the restaurant, I called Associated Press Radio Network in Washington and told them I was on the island and had refused to be evacuated."

Travel

Any Road West

"There was never a moment I was not excited, and even in the aloneness of a sleeping bag on an empty beach or behind a boulder in a remote rest area, I was often too energized to even close my eyes."

climate change

The Fire This Time

Texas is burning. The flames, both literal and figurative, may not be in your yard...yet. Between the GOP and climate change, the flames (both literal and figurative) are burning Texas down.

Immigration

The Golden Door

The president of Mexico was incensed. “No good person would do this,” Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at his daily news conference Thursday. “This is inhumane, and no person should be treated like this.”

War

Oppenheimer and Me

Humans continue to live with the same fear that has haunted us since we initially split the atom. Robert Oppenheimer, a brilliant and heroic man, was just the first scientist to accomplish the inevitable. There tends to be little moral calculus to science.

Indigenous People

An American Tale

The genocide of native peoples,, Americans argued, was an inevitable consequence of Manifest Destiny, the belief that white Europeans and their progeny had a right to any land they wanted to settle in the West. Indians were characterized as savages, while settlers were the brave pioneers.

Texas Politics

Y'all Come On Down

The unspoken question is whether to stay in a place that a person grew up knowing and loving, or does it make more sense to leave and live where politics are less stifling, real estate is more affordable...and the electrical power grid is reliable.

Border

Swimming to America

“Do you know what a foreign accent is? It’s a sign of bravery.” - Amy Chua, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”

Travel

American Memory

Within an hour, we went from curious explorers of history to mercenary capitalists, transporting alcohol in quantity across state lines w/o a license or a permit. In the dorm, we sold out in a few hours at $3 a can, $20 for a six-pack, and $90 for a case. I had never made more money in one day.

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