Roger T. Gray - Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 4)

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."

national politics

"The only helping hand you'll ever get is when they lower the box" - Larry McMurtry

We consider now a couple of Supreme Court decisions that show the milk of human kindness has curdled.

national politics

Please, Lord, Let This Be the Last of Hunter

Just take your deal and go away.

national politics

The Biden Ultimatum

...or is it "The Biden Identity" or "The Biden Supremacy" or "The Biden Whatever"?

Trump

It's An Indictment Mardi Gras

We'll clear some stuff up, but you'll need to pay attention.

national politics

Fanfare for a Common Man

Yeah, Jimmy Carter, peanut farmer. Perhaps he wasn't the greatest president to hold the office, but nowhere near the worst. And importantly, a decency we don't see much anymore.

Bozos At The Gates

The barbarians at the gates have been replaced by sillier but scarier buffoons.

Aaron Sorkin For President

Millions of Americans have mistaken notions about our history, our Constitution and the simple, observable state of our country. It isn't a disaster, though politicians would like you to believe that. There are real problems though, that are tough to tackle and require a joint effort.

social media

Anti-Social Media

It's like electronic crack, and there's no 12 step program for it.

Texas Politics

Soylent Red, White and Blue

A modest proposal for those wacky pranksters in Austin. Bon appétit!

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