Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 19)

I Upgraded My Cell Phone

Cell phone upgrades happen at the crossroads of funeral planning and new car buying.

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: Things are Heating Up Edition

In what could be the most 4th of July thing (at least symbolically) ever to happen in this country, a "mass shooting event" occurred at a community parade in Highland Park, Illinois this last week. Seven dead, over two dozen injured. Two-year-old Aiden McCarthy was left an orphan

environment

Poachers- Crimes Against Nature

"It is mind-numbing when you consider the creative and depraved ways, we humans underappreciate the environment that nurtures and sustains us. Blame it on a lack of education or a lack of conscience, or unmanageable greed, these acts against nature will lead to our ruin in one way or another."

national politics

Fourth of July Reflections

"Stop your non-productive whining. Yes, there has been a series of giant steps backward. It is NOT, as thousands of tweets would have you believe, “the lowest point in our nation’s history” nor “the end of our republic” nor, for that matter, is it the worst of anything in our American past."

Texas Politics

Breaking News: TX GOP Repeals History

The Tx Republican Party platform reads like a cross between a QAnon website and cocktail napkin scribblings by Rudy Giuliani and Phyllis Schlafly after a three-day bender. But fear not, the Democrats are prepared to put together their own platform. Bet you can't wait.

US History

What Does America Want?

"Bradley Freeman was a 19-year-old freshman at Mississippi State University in Starkville when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and became a paratrooper. He knew that America was worth fighting for. Freeman, who passed a day before July 4th, would be the last of the "Band of Brothers." "

personal

The Paycheck Syndrome

After the ceremony, the Speech and Debate teacher finds the boy and congratulates him. She gushes. It was the best performance he ever gave and beautifully written, she said. He remembers this forever.

Abortion

What Fresh Hell Is This? And This? And This, Too?

These are soul-wearying times. Believers (like me) in the slow, inexorable progress of humanity are having to reevaluate the timetables of progress, if not also the ultimate direction.

Abortion

It’s Time for a New “Great Migration,” …… for Women

If you ever need a bitchin’ session to build strategy for dealing with injustice and political bullshit, call a Black friend, and pour a few drinks. We know injustice.

Texas Politics

Governor Death

Nothing reaches his dark heart. How many Texans who need help and won’t be able to get it because of Abbott’s policies, and then will end up hurting themselves or others?

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: It Doesn't Feel Like Independence Edition

A different kind of fireworks this 4th. No glorious, colorful rocket's red glare... just a slow, smoky, simmering burn that keeps smoldering and flaring up. Creeping along, destroying pieces of us as it crawls along in the underbrush. A lot of anger, hurt, distrust... and a growing hopelessness.

national politics

These Guys in 2024?

I am of the opinion that Trump is as dead as Elvis for 2024. And the steady drumbeat has sunk in for many, and even some Democrats are now counseling that Biden not run for reelection.

Texas Politics

Focus Your Outrage Because This is All Your Fault

The current Texas plantation holders may rarely admit it publicly, but they are as scared as their 1860 counterparts that there will be an uprising...

Abortion

A Failed Court

Plain Talk: It is Not Possible to Respect Women and Support Forced Pregnancies Forgive my angry rant, but I think it’s time for angry rants…

Abortion

For Love of Mary-Brigid

I find myself in a conundrum due to several events in my life. In short, it isn't cut and dried for either side. But that choice is not mine to make, and certainly not to order for anyone else.

Texas Politics

The Race to Ruin

The rest of America ought to view Texas as a conservative crystal ball and get an honest read of the potential future under unrestrained Republican leadership.

personal stories

You Can Go Home Again

I was ambivalent about going. But there is a lovely truth to a 50th high school reunion: no one has anything left to prove.

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: The Roe v. America Edition

Every week about this time, I struggle to keep myself from writing something to the effect of, "wow, what a week this was, it can't get much worse." I just don't want to tempt fate. But as fate would have it, and with or

Guns

Can a Photo Stop a Bullet?

"Let the people see what they did to my boy." -Mamie Till Mobley (mother of the lynched Emmett Till)

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Newsletter: It's Father's Day And Now We're Out of Sriracha Edition

Forget gas prices, wheat futures, electricity brownouts... we're running out of Sriracha! Well Happy. Damn. Father's. Day. That's right, the precious hot sauce, equal only to Tabasco (Ok, and maybe Frank’s RedHot® Original Pepper Sauce) is in short supply. Clear some shelf space,

Texas Politics

The Streets of Laredo

People around town had told me Lawrence Berry was nothing more than a drifter, a hitchhiker. He took on probably the oldest group of power brokers and backroom bastards in America.

Conspiracy theories

It’s Time for a Good UFO Story or a U-A-O Tale

Unidentifiable Being Seen on Amarillo Zoo Security Cameras is Still a Mystery.

Energy

Biden's Gas Pains

Despite the fact that the pandemic has slowed to a low boil and business and jobs are picking up again, Joe Biden finds himself in the role of Bush and Carter right now. OK, the role of Bush and Carter's grandad.

Black History

Juneteenth: A Celebration of Humanity

If this is difficult to read about, just imagine how it was for those who lived it.

US History

Drinking with Doc Holliday

Doc was a man who did not need a myth. His life was equal to the epic expansion of the West and the rule of the gun when law was unavailable.

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