Roger T. Gray - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 3)

"Oh, Maria? Another Gin and Tonic, Please."

Right now the total unauthorized population in this country of 340 million is around 11 million. It's about 3%. And they mostly all came for a few reasons; to work, not starve, and not be killed.

Texas History

Here's Why We Can't Have Nice News

We love the negative. It is an axiom in the news business that we don't report planes that land safely or dogs that don't bite. But in the internet age, we find that calling Trump a fascist, or Biden senile will get you noticed.

Texas History

CORRECTED: That Sound You Hear is Sam Houston Spinning

This particular Karen rails against those who contend that the fact that Mexico had outlawed slavery was a large motivator for the revolution. In fact, our Texian forbears used a legal fiction to circumvent the law by having slaves sign a document that they were now "indentured servants." For life.

Texas Politics

I Really Want to Be Fair to Republicans

Paxton is suing Pfizer for "overstating the effectiveness of their vaccine." Really? This guy has decided that the testing of the vaccine was flawed. No doubt renowned scientist George Santos will be an expert witness, if he can interrupt his renewed work with Goldman-Sachs, NASA, and the Beatles.

national politics

If You Can't Say Something Nice, Sit Next to Me

President Obama could be chosen by the Almighty to emcee the second coming, and his critics would find something to criticize. If Congress is a clown car, then every clown car needs a driver and we know who that is.

International Politics

Some Thanksgiving Musings

The old saying is that politics is show business for ugly people. I am now convinced it's high school for slow learners.

International Politics

What Rodney Could Have Taught Vivek

Not only is his overwrought and seemingly tireless debating style hitting the crowd as distinctly joyless, but maddening as well. It seems that no moderator, Fox or NBC, can convince him to put a sock in it. It's like the worst High School Class President contest ever.

International Politics

OK. Uncle! I Give Up.

I am inclined to frankly, give up. The forces of commerce and human inertia are too strong. Politicians on the take, the companies that take them, and our own reluctance when confronted with change, will doom it.

Health Care

When the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is your Speaker*

Yeah, Mike Johnson looks mild-mannered now, but wait until he steps into a phone booth.

education

Lord Acton Understated the Case

"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Israel

Can it really be "Never Again" this time?

What comes next? A lot of kids want to know.

Israel

Battles Here and in Israel

Horror and bloodshed abroad, and Jim Jordan is still here. A bad week all around.

national politics

Sports, Immigrants, Abbott and Trump as Otter

"Lauren Boebert wants to pass new laws to make smuggling drugs and human trafficking, which are of course illegal, even MORE illegal. And they all want a 2,000-mile border wall since the one in Berlin worked so well. I imagine Canada feels like they have rented an apartment above a meth lab."

national politics

Reminiscence, Self-Pity and Politics

This is all about performance art. This is not governing. It is not statesmanship. It is about a slot on Fox and more contributions from the great unwashed. It's the political equivalent of a roadshow of Beetlejuice, but without the fun stuff on row 36.

Texas Politics

Down is the New Up

I figured partisanship wasn't a factor in the impeachment trial of TX Attorney General Ken Paxton. (The articles of impeachment were voted on in the overwhelmingly Republican-led House of Representatives.) Oh, what a guileless, wide-eyed babe in the woods I was.

Texas Politics

Astros and Politics, But Mainly, Astros

I did try to find the Rangers' history of cheating, and indeed there were lots of accusations, but no proof. As one fan said in comments on the issue... "If we were cheats, we were the worst cheats ever."

Labor

Happy Labor Day

Happy Labor Day, if it's still politically OK to mention labor, right?

Racism

Sorry, We Had to Cancel the Dream

That throbbing, angry vein on America's forehead. Sure, the arc of the moral universe is long, but was it supposed to go backward?

Guns

OK, Yes! I shot my foot! Now shuttup!

I'm not Wild Bill, obviously. Unless there are legends he kept secret.

Trump

Catch 47, that's some catch, that Catch 47

Trump's advisors have a plan to free us from socialists by controlling everything.

national politics

What were you thinking?

When you don't just shoot yourself in the foot, but take an M-16 to it.

national politics

That Was the Week That Was

In his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” Hunter claimed he had “no recollection of our encounter.” That recollection was no doubt clouded by a Vesuvius of Peruvian Marching Powder.

cancel culture

If Barbie married Jason Aldean.

If they got married? The whining would never end.

national politics

RFK, Jr...the answer to a question no one asked

Wherein the author poses the eternal question...WTF!

national politics

NO-stradamus

On my 8-ball, you constantly see, "Reply hazy. Try again."

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