Monthly Archives: September 2007

Henry’s gangsta image

Posted on September 20, 2007 | Comments Off on Henry’s gangsta image

The daily’s Cedric Golden reveals that Longhorns reserve running back and special teams player James Henry’s arrest on two felonies was predictable from his glamorizing of the thug life on his MySpace page, which has been taken down. Ced says Coach Mack Brown needs to follow Penn State Coach Joe Paterno, whose troubled (and well-behaved) Nittany Lions are all cleaning out the stadium after home games this year because six of them were arrested in the preseason.

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War with Iran

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on War with Iran

Why it’s near, and why we and the Israelis aren’t likely to be alone in waging it. So long as it doesn’t involve a land invasion across those mountain ranges, I hope.

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Dan Rather causes ‘mystery illness’ in Peru

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Dan Rather causes ‘mystery illness’ in Peru

Perfectly plausible. In a manner of speaking. But seriously, folks.

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Sailor far from the sea

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Sailor far from the sea

All of us who have been reading the Seablogger’s remarkably candid journal of his struggle to say farewell to his alcoholic and ill partner have learned more than we knew about dealing with sorrow. The proprietress of Just Muttering has a good summary of the story taking place in Fargo, a place I admit I pretty much thought of only as a movie before this. My mother’s sister was an alcoholic whose behavior sometimes replicated what the Seablogger is going through. Unlike his partner, my aunt eventually killed herself. I didn’t know what to think about that at the time, but now I think maybe she did us all a favor.

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Are You Army Strong?

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on Are You Army Strong?

Another 9/11 generation recruit for the GWOT, hoping to become SF. And his blogger dad’s reaction.

Via Instapundit 

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The mother of Texas?

Posted on September 19, 2007 | Comments Off on The mother of Texas?

More like one of the first entrepreneurs with a vivid imagination. Jane Long was the wife of an early "filibuster," meaning an American who tried to organize the overthrow of the government of Mexico.

James Long disappeared on this very day in 1821 and she gave birth to a daughter a few months later. Years after, she would claim to "the mother of Texas," because of the birth, though historians say other pregnant Anglos preceded her in the feat.

In her old age, she claimed to have been courted by such luminaries as Houston, Lamar and Milam. 

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Real or fake state vehicles?

Posted on September 18, 2007 | Comments Off on Real or fake state vehicles?

For now, the phony TxDOT (Texas Department of Transportation) trucks are smuggling drugs across the state. How long do we have before the terrorists figure out what a good idea this is?

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