They stuck out like sore thumbs, just like the dilapidated houses often found at the end of their gravel driveways. It starts with a lone sign at the end of a long drive somewhere south of Glen Rose and grows into a spattering as you pass through a small town square....
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Musings: Greg Abbott and the Failed State
When I first moved to Texas and was learning about the political systems and power structures of the Lone Star State, people repeatedly reminded me that the most powerful chair in the state was the one the lieutenant governor sat in on the Senate floor. Endowed with...
Beto O’Rourke, AOC step up while Abbott, Cruz fail Texas
Shortly after returning from an overnight trip abroad during a pandemic and deadly weather emergency, Ted Cruz spent his evening doing roughly what you would expect: going on television to try to massage the truth of his embarrassing blunder. Within hours of touching...
Musings: Ted Cruz Takes Cancun
In this space on Tuesday, I said Governor Greg Abbott has exhibited a depraved indifference for the lives of Texans as millions remained without power or answers as Y’allmageddon 2021 continued to stretch on with no end in sight. On Wednesday evening, Senator Ted Cruz...
Musings: Greg Abbott Fails Texas
I’m sure many of you spent some time wondering and researching the latest GOP policy failure to wreak havoc on Texans yesterday as the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, badly blundered what were supposed to be rolling or rotating blackouts designed to...
Musings: What’s a rolling blackout?
Chances are if you’re reading this you may be sitting in your car, engine running and heater blasting, because the winter weather event gripping Texas has led to such overwhelming demand that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, which operates the...
Musings: The Horror and Hope of Impeachment
Like many of you, I’ve had to force myself not to vomit or cry several times this week watching the powerful video evidence impeachment managers have used to make their case for convicting Donald Trump in his historical second impeachment trial. For me, the events of...
Musings: Allen West and TX GOP Eye the Texits
At the risk of opening a Pandora's box that I’ll soon regret, could any thinking Texan that supports seceding from the union drop me a line and tell me what gives? Weren’t Texas Republicans the folks that made patriotic bravado a prerequisite for political office?...
Musings: How to Beat Greg Abbott
Last week’s social media showdown between Governor Greg Abbott and a refreshed but angry Beto O’Rourke still has Texas abuzz, but maybe not for the right reasons. No doubt, for erstwhile Texas Democrats, the prospect of having O’Rourke bring his magic to the top of...
Musings: Beto O’Rourke for Governor?
I had forgotten how this feels. It’s so hard not to feel disillusioned with the sordid state of our politics right now. The horrific images from January 6 have left a deep and lasting psychic scar on our entire country, and I, for one, have been feeling it pretty hard...