Texas Outlaw Writers (Page 8)

Happy Labor Day

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

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."

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?

Texas Music

Mug Shots and Rich Cops (and some inspirational country protest music... seriously!)

A mugshot made for memes. The most failed police chief in Texas gets a hefty raise. And authentic protest music is back - and it's rising fast on the country charts.

Racism

Colorism: Racism’s Twisted Sibling

“I remember a time when I too felt unbeautiful. . .. I got teased and taunted about my night-shaded skin. And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned..."

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."

Guns

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

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

Civil Rights

The ACLU: The OG Defenders of Liberty, Still Fighting Today

A million + members today, 500 staff attorneys, and thousands more volunteer in ACLU offices nationwide. They stand up to injustice using the Constitution as their shield. The right-wing efforts to turn America into a fascist nation keep them in business. But it’s the work they’re used to doing.

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.

Trump

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

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

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: The Cruelty Competition Edition

The quote that keeps coming back to me from the Trump years appeared in the NY Times during Trump's second federal government shutdown at the end of 2018 (which continued through January 2019.) Crystal Minton was a secretary at a federal prison in Marianna, Florida. "“I voted

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.”

national politics

What were you thinking?

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

Culture

There Ain’t Nothin’ New

"There are recurrent types of people who will return to their folly as a dog to his vomit. They play the same roles and do similar things every 80 years, according to the theory." Rinse. Repeat.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: Indicting the Witch Edition

If you're conducting a well run witch hunt, sometimes you can really find an authentic witch! Four felony counts. Even more are on the way in Georgia. Robert Reich points out in his newsletter that sadly, these indictments are boosting Trump's cred in the Republican party.

national politics

Immoral Dilemma

People who believe it’s okay to force women to have babies, to cheat fellow humans out of jobs, homes, and opportunities, or to shove children to their deaths in bodies of water, evidently operate from a belief system that people who look like them are valuable and those who don’t are not.

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.

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.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: The Texucation Edition

"Re-educate the masses" is always a priority in the authoritarian playbook. Oh, still think that's hyperbole? The state is turning school libraries into detention centers in Houston.

cancel culture

If Barbie married Jason Aldean.

If they got married? The whining would never end.

Racism

What’s Worse than Voter Suppression? How About No Elections, Just Pass the Office on to Friends and Family

A Tiny Alabama town is a blast from an evil, ignorant, and hateful past. A federal lawsuit is attempting to clean it up.

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.

education

Welcome to Texucation

"Re-educate the masses" is always a priority in the authoritarian playbook. Oh, still think that's hyperbole? The state is turning school libraries into detention centers in Houston.

Newsletter

Texas Outlaw Writers Newsletter: Teletubbies Begat Tiddlytubbies Edition

You didn't think it important enough to tell me? That the Teletubbies reproduced? That there are now eight "Tiddlytubby" babies in addition to the regular 4 (adult?) Teletubbies? That evangelical politician Jerry Falwell was right in his warning oh so many years ago that the Tubs

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.

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