What You Missed If You Didn’t Read Today’s The New York Times
1. Read about the guy who used a park bench as shelter during Hurricane Ike. And this guy:

Southwest of Galveston, officers said that one man from Surfside Beach was the only resident who did not evacuate the highly damaged area. He was drunk when [...]

Look . . .
Look . . .
BAM!
You just saved the world from another idiot motorcycler.
Thank you.
From the bottom of my heart.

Just got this great e-mail from John Cornyn’s campaign pimping their last anti-Noriega fundraising e-mail:
Team:
See note below from our communications director, thanks for what you have done in last 24 hours, let’s keep it going.

From: Kevin McLaughlin
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 1:40 PM
To: Rob Jesmer
Subject: Nutroots
Rob-
2 things;
1) Our guys at the convention told us Noreiga [...]

I’ve realized it’s not a good idea to promise myself (and definitely not any readers my delusional mind thinks are out there) that I will post once a day. It just ain’t gonna happen. I’ll keep that defaulted promise in the back of my mind — so maybe it will urge me to write more [...]

Austin is rife with Democrats today — as if it isn’t always, but even more so today, tomorrow and Saturday — here for the Texas Democratic Convention.
There’s been a lot of, frankly, ridiculous prophesying that Obama or Clinton will show up, but that has finally been put to rest by Obama tapping Virginia Gov. Tim [...]

Really.
Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press.
On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit.
And this:
On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. (Friedman never [...]

This is a great read.

Interesting article in April’s Armed Forces Journal.
Lt. Col. Edith A Disler, an associate professor of English and deputy head of the Department of English at the Air Force Academy, argues that the Air Force is attempting to reassert its masculinity through language.
Essentially, she argues that two prominent, rather recent linguistic changes or additions have [...]

How would you do on Texas’ eighth-grade science test?
Give it a shot.
I got 44 out of 50 correct. Post your score below.
Also, to my surprise, one of my friends, Krissi Trumeter, criticized my old college friend, Sofia Resnick’s, recent article in the Austin Chronicle. What’s surprising is that they don’t know one another. Austin is [...]