2023-11-02: What's the over/under for how much Texas Rangers' ticket prices will jump next season?
2023-11-10: I just received an email from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson that begins, "Thank you for supporting the Republican Mayors Association (RMA), an organization I launched less than three weeks ago." The mayor of Dallas is officially a non-partisan office. Recently, Mayor Johnson announced he was switching political parties. Now he's turning the office partisan. I have no idea where he got the impression that I support the Republican Mayors Association. I definitely don't.
2023-11-11: Beginning September 23, 2023, the weekly informational email from the Richardson ISD, "School Times" has led with an ad for Weirs Furniture. It's a sign of how strapped for funds our schools have become because of the state's slow strangulation of public education. RISD may live to regret it anyway. All it will take is a white, Christian nationalist group showing up with their own money asking to place their own ad.
2023-11-17: It's Autumn. Get your flu shot. Get your Covid-19 shot. Get one every year until expert advice says not to.
vox.com/policy/2023/11/17/2396...
2023-11-17: The modern GOP is providing an answer to the 90-year-old question, "Why did Germans follow the Nazis into the Holocaust?"
2023-11-22: "We pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, fascists, and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country—that lie and steal and cheat on elections...They'll do anything, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America and to destroy the American dream...The threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous, and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within."
-- Donald Trump, 2023, channeling Adolph Hitler, 1933.
2023-11-24: UT-Dallas decides free speech is a good thing, until it gets controversial.
dentonrc.com/news/state/a-texa...
2023-11-30: "The Cubans say there is no evil that lasts a hundred years. Kissinger proved them wrong." -- Greg Grandin, author of the biography Kissinger's Shadow, paraphrased.
rollingstone.com/politics/poli...
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