The Sound of Summer
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.” ~Rogers Hornsby
When I got the news that Ernie Harwell had died, I was, appropriately, at a baseball game. I looked at the message on my phone and then [...]
Nobody Knows the Trouble We’ll See
We might be powerless.
The oil flowing out from the seabed in the Gulf of Mexico may be under such great pressure that we do not possess technology to stop the tragedy. Chances are quite good we have no true sense of the dire nature of the situation. The facts that have been ascertained, however, lead [...]
Habeas Coyote Corpus
“They say I killed six or seven men for just snorin’. That ain’t true. I only killed one man for snorin’.” – John Wesley Hardin, Texas outlaw
The governor of Texas is a weinie. I can’t reach any other conclusion after reading the report about him shooting a coyote that threatened his daughter’s puppy. Rick Perry [...]
When Horses Could Fly: A Southern Story Gone North
“The promise of America is that something is going to happen, but after a while you grow tired of waiting because nothing ever does happen to people in America; except they grow old. And nothing ever happens to American art, either, because the story of America is the story of the moon that never rose.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Time wrinkles a man’s memory [...]
Droning On
If they weren’t so patently dangerous, the political inanities of Texas Governor Rick Perry might be entertaining. Unfortunately, it’s hard to keep up with the tempo of his pendulum swings in logic. Perry famously pandered to the marginalized radicals of the GOP right by suggesting to various Texas Tea Parties that our state might still [...]
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