Archive for April, 2005

Texas Makes National News For Progressive Policies

We’re just fuckin’ with ya. Jon Stewart’s Daily Show says it better than anyone.(video) “You know what’s interesting? I’m not fucking making this up.”
(link courtesy: One Good Move)

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PinkDome’s Mom Has Something To Say

The mother of PinkDome has requested a disclaimer. Being a dutiful child, I oblige (kind of).
The views and content of PinkDome do not necessarily reflect that the author was not brought up right by the parents of PinkDome.
For some reason mom thought some of the things on this site could be considered offensive. Weird.
We were [...]

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Chris Bell has a podcast.

We’ll divulge a little secret here - PD and I have discussed starting a podcast. It hasn’t come to fruition yet, but just wait, my friends. Some day. . .
Anyway, Chris Bell has beaten us to it (Thanks, BOR) . On his refurbished/newfangled/updated site, Mr. Bell has a blog, podcast and [...]

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Craddick: Rare or Medium Well, Sir?

We were going to write something informative on the revenue cap bill, but then we realized we didn’t have any idea what that meant so instead we just decided to poke fun at Craddick. Stick to what you know in a crunch, we always say.
The Statesman keeps saying that ‘in a rare vote by Craddick’ [...]

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Water Wars Action Alert OR Senator Madla Said What? Really?

The Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to meet Thursday to take up the Kinney County water wars some of you may have read about.
Jay Johnson of the West Texas Springs Alliance says:

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Who Says Bloggers Have All The Fun?

The Dallas Morning News layout editor is hilarious. Check out why after the jump. Leave the humor to the drunk bloggers, DMN.
EDITED TO ADD: Contrary to what this guy thinks, we didn’t use Lee Franke’s (who the hell is that?) as a source for this scan, but nice to see a Fox ‘news’ contributor doing [...]

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We’ll never look at cement the same way again.

Off the Kuff links to a story in D Magazine that is a must-read. After reading the article, we are very glad not to live Midlothian, but certainly the residents of the town deserve better than to be inundated by harmful chemicals from cement plants.
Why we are linking to the story (with our added [...]

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Understatement of the Day

“It was called an overreaction, a knee-jerk reaction,” King said.
Phil King has backed off his proposal to require steroid testing for high school kids. I guess somebody finally told him it would cost tens of millions of dollars and unless he was paying for it, nobody has any money.
Unfortunately, we think ‘overreaction’ and ‘knee-jerk reaction’ [...]

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We’re Taking Bets: How Many Different Forms Will Gambling and Lottery Legislation Take This Session?

The DMN reports that there’s a lottery bill we haven’t seen yet. This one proposes that buying lottery tickets be easier than ordering online porn over the Internet. Rep. Uresti (D-San Antonio) is a supporter of the bill. Yo, Carlos…did you not listen to us or your party chair back in March?
Citing a decade-and-a-half of [...]

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