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...
Musings
back to archiveMusings: Seth Rogen destroys Ted Cruz
You would be forgiven, dear readers, for thinking that Ted Cruz might have woken up on January 7th, or anytime thereafter, and realized the dangerous err of his ways. In the wake of one of the most appalling moments in our political history, surely the sight of an...
Musings: A New Morning
Are you breathing easier, dear readers? For those of us who have been suffering from the cedar pollen in Austin it may only be rhetorical, but it sure did feel good to watch President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris take their sacred oaths of office...
Musings: The Mob Boss in Chief
As I settled in to write this column, I was reading about the latest shameful updates from Pardon Watch 2021. With mere hours left on his presidency, and facing that prospect that he, his family and closest associates may all soon be swept up in a slew of state and...
Musings: Long Division
Dear readers, if you’re anything like me you are forgiven if for a few hours on Wednesday you thought you slipped into an alternate timeline. In remarks opposing the second impeachment (hey, he finally broke a record!) of Donald J Trump, Republican after Republican...
Musings: The Bigger the Lie
The fifth and final season of The Wire, the deeply textured drama created by former Baltimore Sun reporter David Simon that finds a way to explore every facet of an ailing city across five epic seasons, begins with a scene born from Baltimore police legend in which a...
Musings: Requiem for Patriotism
What were they thinking? Like many of you, I settled into a chair yesterday afternoon knowing that I was about to watch something that is ordinarily perfunctory and ceremonial perverted into political theater aimed at the lowest common denominator, but nothing could...
Musings: Welcome to ‘21
Welcome to Musings, a new weekly Monday morning opinion column from Texas Signal that will ponder life’s big questions, or at least strive to make sense of the latest in Texas and national politics. The views expressed below belong to the author. Well, dear readers,...