Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 18)

In the Belly of the Whale

That abandonment was the core of a grief I’d been trying to kill with alcohol for more than 30 years. Her leaving me stung more than her many other faults, such as attacking my father with a knife in my presence...

Texas Politics

How Can I Miss You If You Won't Leave?

I was approached by a Texas politician. Suffice to say he is Republican, and he confessed, without prompting from me, that the party in Texas has been taken over by the crazies and they have their work cut out for them to get it back. One direct quote, "Goldwater would be a RINO today."

A Texas School in the Middle East? Yes. And it’s winning!

While education is being debated, undermined, and manipulated by American politicians, this American school in Doha, enjoys immunity from that. Texas educational standards serve as a foundational basis, not as daily oversight.

Texas Politics

Profiles in Cravenness: The Enduring Shame of Cornyn and Cruz

Ted Cruz and John Cornyn are an odd couple. Both have demonstrated, among their other inadequacies, a feckless, lickspittle obeisance to the Mad King Donald Trump that still threatens the safety and security of Our Republic.

Texas Outlaw Newsletter: You May Not Care, Muthafukkah, But We Do Edition

It wasn't too bad a week for John Q. Citizen, on balance. The House approved Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act on Friday [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/politics/house-climate-tax-bill.html], marking yet another legislative win for both the party and President Biden. The massive spending

Texas Politics

A Letter from Texas

"Fascism in Texas is no longer creeping. It is up and running with Olympian legs."

national politics

Two Nations Under God?

In my mind, conservative extremists are a potential danger to me and my family, and I'd rather not live next door to pro-gun-toting racists who ignore the truth and follow their political reps with cult-like allegiance in matters of race, economics, the environment, and personal health.

Texas Politics

Can Beto O’Rourke Get Past November 8th?

Texas has changed, largely because it’s population has almost doubled in 30 years. Those new people have brought new ways of thinking, acting and living with them. Nowhere are the changes more evident than in Texas politics.

Energy

Texas Energy Leadership, Boldly Marching in Place

When the Kyoto Protocols were signed to reduce carbon emissions, the fossil fuel industry decided, to quote Dean Wormer, "It's time for somebody to put his foot down. And that foot is me."

Texas Outlaw Newsletter: the Inflation Reduction Edition

It wasn't such a bad week for normal people in America! It looks like the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is on its way to becoming law. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2022/08/07/senate-inflation-reduction-act-climate/] According to the WaPo, > "...the package would authorize the biggest

national politics

Forgive Me Father, For I Elected This Congress

The President's pared-down "Build Back Better" program is now the Inflation Reduction Act. Really. It was announced with a straight face. Not a sure thing, but likely to go into effect through a labyrinthine process called reconciliation, a procedure that no one understands, save Tim the Enchanter.

national politics

Called to the Colors: Betrayal of the American Veteran

Our culture has become very skilled at ginning up false causes for invasions and wasting the honor and patriotism of our young on lies. Young recruits believe their government and the political leaders sending them into conflict, and that, sadly, is their mistake.

Abortion

Dobbs Is Just The Beginning

The Dobbs decision overturning Roe is opposed by comfortable majorities of Americans. Additionally, Americans think the Dobbs decision indicates it is more likely the Supreme Court would roll back the right to contraception and same-sex marriage.

Texas Outlaw Writers: Betrayal Edition

For years I've suggested to any progressives that would listen that they need to incorporate the word "betrayal" as a descriptor for GOP policies and politicians. (They don't listen And yet I continue to howl at the moon.) It's a simple fact,

environment

How the West Was Lost

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” - W.H. Auden

Texas Politics

The Texas Democratic Convention. Apocalypse Dallas.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. -Will Rogers

education

Common Sense is an Unfortunate Oxymoron

Critical thinking isn’t being taught or encouraged in the way it was 40 or 50 years ago. When I take the time to peruse daily news, I usually become pissed off, because I know we can do better.

Texas Politics

Can Greg Abbott Get Past November 8th?

"Every morning this summer, Greg and Cecilia Abbott arise early and give thanks to God for the blessing of a new day. Then they... pray to whatever dark spirits that the electricity grid will hold for justonemorefuckingdaypleaseGod..."

Texas Outlaw Newsletter: Now What? Edition

The January 6th Hearings are over, and it was quite a series, quite a thriller. Will there be a season 2? "The January 6th Hearings: The Secrets of the Secret Service." "The January 6th Hearings: A Final Report," or even better: "The January 6th Hearings:

Abortion

An Open Letter to American White Women on Roe v Wade

This Roe v Wade overturning has been long coming and is one domino of many that have already been occurring and will continue to fall. It is a domino in an interlocking system of dominoes.

Texas Outlaw Newsletter: Texas Gets an "F" Edition

Texas got a high grade this week and took fifth place in the "Top States for Business" in a CNBC study. (Yay! Business!) But before you order the cake and call everyone to the break room, you need to check another title we received in the same study:

And, What Whine, Sir? Republican or Democratic?

Ukranians are being slaughtered, the Middle East is still a tinderbox, the US and China are in a new arms race, women need choices restored while we whine about masks and a gas price spike.

Baseball

Best of the Pecos

“You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” - Jim Bouton, pitcher, author

Texas Country

Good Cowboy Boots. Yet Another Plus for Texas

I write about the artful thing of beauty that is the cowboy boot. While I fully understand that today’s Texas is a giant cosmopolitan state where almost 40% of our citizens no longer ride horses for work or feel quite so free to spit indoors, manly footwear still comes with a riding heel.

Nature

A 13-Billion-Year-Old Perspective On Things

The James Webb Space Telescope reminds us that our problems don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy, glorious universe. For that matter, neither do we.

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