James C. Moore - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 4)

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.

personal stories

A Port in History's Storm

The Titan submersible, carried past the narrows on a ship for a launch above the Titanic’s wreckage, now leaves its imprimatur of sadness on a people who have known too long and too well that the sea exacts a price for its glory and bounty, and preparation is the best hope for survival.

Conspiracy theories

Gullible's Travels

“The first of all the forces that rule the world is the lie.” ― Jean-François Revel

Texas Politics

Tex-a-Tete

A fantasy: Angela Paxton sits through the whole impeachment trial, and when it comes time to vote, rises from her chair and gives a big thumbs down. The crowd in the gallery swoons; Paxton's mistress cries out, Ken!” and then a process server walks on the floor and serves Ken with divorce papers!!!

Journalism

Not Necessarily the News

" If you hear reports of a plane crash in Paris, chances are good there was a witness who has already posted about it on Twitter while CNN is struggling to gather actual facts. Eyeballs went a wandering, and ad dollars went a plummeting."

Travel

Mountains and Mysteries

“There ain’t no barbed wire up here, and it was made for me.” - Rich Corraza, Alaskan

national politics

Of Presidents and Potentates

"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." - Mark Twain

Travel

Looking for Mr. Brautigan

“I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word mayonnaise.” - Richard Brautigan, Poet and Novelist

Immigration

The North Bank of the Big River

The Immigrants will keep coming. The only thing separating their misery from bright possibility is a river, a desert, and laws they don’t understand. They take their chances and trek northward. Our need for their labor is insatiable. Their dreams will not be thwarted.

education

Teach Your Children Well

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B King

Science

The Rocket's Dead Glare

After the explosion, the female narrator, apparently without irony, told the audience, “There, as you saw, and as we promised, an exciting end to the Starship Inaugural Integrated test flight.”

Texas Politics

To Read is to Fly

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” —Anna Quindlen

personal

Down to the River

“Think of where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was, I had such friends.” - W.B. Yeats

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