I wonder if the records of the telephone calls Ron “$8300 racist” Wilson keeps making from the dais are available under the Open Records Act. Mofo’s been on the phone for two days straight. And with that smirk! Who’s he talking to? His baby momma? His mom? His creative accountant?

For someone who is hellbent on remaining Speaker of the House, Craddick doesn’t seem too interested in actually serving in his post the last couple of days.
I’d like to make a motion to vacate due to dereliction of duty.

Caption me.

Musings has Lt. Colonel and state Rep. Rick Noriega’s statement on Memorial Day:
Comments on Memorial Day
LTC Rick Noriega
May 27, 2007
Our great country is at war. This Memorial Day weekend, as we move from barbecue to pool, we need to take a moment and reflect on the true origin of this weekend holiday. We need to […]

Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land. Their true import, as far as respects individuals, must, like all other laws, be ascertained by […]

The motion to vacate will happen sometime tonight. The Bad Precedents will then break into a rendition of “Rockin’ in the Free World” from the House gallery.

This kind of shit sickens me:
After complaints by a government watchdog group, the Air Force and the Army partially distanced themselves yesterday from a three-day evangelical Christian event this weekend at a Georgia theme park.
The Memorial Day weekend “Salute to the Troops” celebration at Stone Mountain Park is sponsored by Task Force Patriot USA, a […]

Is that the moving trucks parked along 11th Street in front of the La Quinta Inn are for the Speaker’s furniture.

Whether or not you can tell, I studied English Writing and Rhetoric in college.
I’ve been reading Michael Ventura’s columns in The Austin Chronicle for years now. Oftentimes, I’ve found them the only items of substance in that weekly (discounting the music listings).
Since the start of the war in Iraq, he’s gone off on more than […]