2018-10-19 14:16
Beto O'Rourke is a nice enough guy. Per Shrub Bush, maybe you could have a beer with him more easily than with Al Gore or John Kerry. That said, Barack Obama offered beers to both Henry Loui… Read More
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A skeptical left-liberal's blogging on Texas and national politics, environmentalism, journalism, church-state issues, atheism, more
2018-10-18 18:43
With a number of mid-sized daily papers having recently engaged in further whacks, and even large-sized dailies engaging in some trims, the distinction in the header is important.Newspaper e… Read More
2018-10-18 15:43
Rightly, baseball fans in general as well as Houston Astros fans, are ragging on Cowboy Joe West for taking away a two-run homer from Jose Altuve last night and instead calling him out on fa… Read More
2018-10-17 20:31
I didn't watch last night's debate between Beto O'Rourke and Ted Cruz, but I did follow the Twitter hashtag enough to agree with Brains: Beto won a split decision.He did have the boxing glov… Read More
2018-10-17 14:03
For voters wanting Option 3 in some statewide races, Libertarian Party candidates for the top three spots on the ballot were in Northeast Texas last week selling their alternative message. (… Read More
2018-10-16 16:48
With early voting by mail already on, and early voting in person starting next week, the Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for voting to begin as it brings you this week's roundup.Brains a… Read More
2018-10-15 10:56
As this blog simmers and marinates more over the years, I've added more non-politics and non-sports stuff to it.A fair part of those additions are personal thoughts related to psychology and… Read More
2018-10-12 18:26
The New York Times recently ran an interactive piece on "lo the poor teachers" and I'm going to critique it. Pretty harshly.Half the teachers listed as so poor, so "poor me," have no kids. H… Read More
2018-10-11 18:17
We had a forum here in Northeast Texas Tuesday night, sponsored by the area retired teachers org.Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Mike Collier was here, so of course Danny Goeb was n… Read More
2018-10-09 17:30
The Texas Progressive Alliance encourages you to double-check your status if you have already registered to be certain you are ready to cast your ballot.The state's website link to… Read More
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