PINK PIQUE
Things have been quiet — too quiet — after last weekend’s Austin American-Statesman vs. Pink Dome flareup sparked by a blog fight between two gubernatorial campaigns.
It all started with skirmishing on Gov. Rick Perry’s blog between Perry’s camp and challenger Carole Keeton Strayhorn’s spokesman Mark Sanders.
When Perry’s folks resorted to posting Sanders’ 1980s photo [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | pinkdome
So it’s pretty much been shored up that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the guy who gave Valerie Plame’s name to crazy GOP geezer columnist Robert Novak. Novak confirmed the leak with Karl Rove and you know the rest of story. Boy meets girl, boy marries girl, boy criticizes false [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Republican Senator Conrad Burns was speaking to a crowd at his fundraiser, warning them of the dangers of not electing Republicans this fall. Apparently America is up against a faceless enemy of terrorists who “drive taxi cabs in the daytime and kill at night.” It’s true, as can be seen from this undated [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
- Gov. Perry loves Texas Parks, especially if he can sell the land for drilling purposes. Hoo-ee!
- One Tough Grandma is being sued by the former director of Woodside Trails Therapeutic Camp (a camp that Strayhorn closed two years prior). Austinist has a piece written by a former counselor from the camp.
- The [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
But I’m reading this: Slate is publishing a chapter a day online of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation.
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
“This is a democracy, still. . . sometimes just barely. And as such, all voices count. Not just his. Had he or his President proven any of their prior claims of omniscience . . . we all might be able to swallow hard and accept their omniscience as a bearable, or even [...]
08.31.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Scenario: Teacher takes 5th grade class to museum. Museum has nude artwork. One parent fuh-reaks out. School board responds by freaking out.
A woman who’s been a teacher for 28 years is getting grilled because she took her students to the museum where they obviously have art that depicts nudes. What [...]
08.30.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings: “I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory soap: It’s 99.9 percent pure or something…There’s not much needed in the way of change.”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Iraq: “a series of catastrophes that results in victory.”
Spokeswoman Kathy Walt on Perry’s lapse in ethics: “Gov. Perry has the strongest [...]
08.30.06 | Uncategorized | admin
Dinosaur Congressman Ralph Hall learned about “respectacles” from a group of 6 year olds recently. The congressman visited the Primary School in Pittsburg, Texas, ostensibly because he mistook the school cafeteria for the local Luby’s.
While there, he was taught about “respectacles”. Apparently these “respectacles” are a kind of apparatus for the eyes, not [...]
08.30.06 | Uncategorized | admin