THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER

Amazes me how the legacy media can get away with, repeatedly, calling Obamacare “health care reform,” or “health care makeover,” when it is really a government takeover. Not as pleasant sounding, I suppose. Like “free” bread:
“If you relied upon the government for your bread, you would accept what you were given, and you would [...]

Internet scoops legacy media again: Balloon boy seems to have come down to earth, and was well behind in the payments for the Prius he was driving.
Via No Left Turns.

It’s the Eighth Annual International Eat A Tasty Animal for PETA Day. Hamburger, I expect, will be on the menu at the rancho where we seldom miss an opportunity to mock a pretentious person or organization. Especially an obnoxious one like PETA, which so richly deserves all the ridicule it gets.
Not that we have anything [...]

Rainfall has been above normal across Central Texas since Jan. 1, according to the National Weather Service. That’s expected to continue, with a consequent risk of significant flooding, especially on area rivers and lakes.
Forecast rain & storms today through Monday will only add to the problem.
Meanwhile, LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose says one of the coldest [...]

They’re always dreaming up new things to regulate, to keep their jobs and pensions. Up next: the Internet. You knew all this freedom couldn’t last, right?

Seems old Lyndon Baines broke some laws for other than personal gain and one fellow is out to see him declared righteous for it, at least in Israel. LBJ, we hardly knew ye. Nor did your granddaughter, but she’s on the right path.

I’m glad to see these retail-ish medical clinics, which are very popular in Austin, are proliferating. But I’m surprised to see there’s only 1,200 plus across the country.
They are pretty cheap and they really do give the lie to the supposed need for Obamacare. Even the illegal hoards the Dems want to insure (so their [...]

I’ve said this before about other things, but it’s worth saying again in a new context. I find this news of the Secret Service operating with outdated and frequently malfunctioning, circa 1980s computer equipment, quite reassuring, actually.
As an old friend, a former government spook, likes to say, while hooting at the latest conspiracy theory of [...]

Former newspaper colleague turned author Mike Cox has this good column at TexasEscapes about how, because email is killing the post office, it’s time to remember some of the fabled ones.
Because they will, in all probability,  soon be vanishing. Strangely, Mike leaves out the story of how Dime Box got its name. Aided, in part, [...]

One of the more amusing tales  of science fiction is the one where the exploring earthlings, who believe that technological survival requires logic and logical beings can’t be warlike, run smack into an alien warship whose star troopers proceed to eviscerate them. (See Larry Niven’s warcats.)
Comes now a similar argument from New Scientist (”Hello ET, [...]