The Texas Progressive Alliance is making the usual New Year's resolutions to exercise more and eat less as brings you the last blog roundup of 2014.
Off the Kuff stays on top of all of the legislative special elections that are going on.
Libby Shaw republished a diary she posted last year on Texas Kaos on Daily Kos in order to remind us about what happens in a state with so little oversight. GOP Texas: Where state funded cancer research can become a slush fund for politicians.
WCNews at Eye on Williamson points out that there's no telling what will happen in the next legislative session, but some think it won't be so bad. Don't buy it: Let's Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves.
The blood lust of the Texas Republicans will not be sated with just five doses of execution drugs available. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders what Greg Abbott will do.
Some recent national conversations seem to reinforce the premise that an independent progressive movement might be valuable to affect the kind of change that would attract the vast majority of non-voting Americans. What it might look like and where to get started remain the primary hurdles. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs found some justification in his efforts to work within and without the Democratic Party simultaneously.
Neil at All People Have Value said we have the right to elect liberals to public office in big cities without the police rebelling and undermining the democratically elected choice of the people. All People Have Value is part of NeilAquino.com.
Uncle O'Grimacy at McBlogger, in a post-election spurt of frequent blogging, catalogued the butthurt of Battleground Texas.
Egberto Willlies pounced on a truth inconveniently uttered by Sunday Talking Head Chuck Todd.
Bluedaze would really like to know exactly who Chris Faulkner of Breitling Energy is.
And the Lewisville Texas Journal has the city's answers to questions about Ferguson Plaza.
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And here's some great posts from other blogs across Texas.
Grits for Breakfast has a question for incoming Bexar County DA Nico Lahood about post-conviction case reviews.
TransGriot updated the (still-delayed) status of Houston Metro's newest light rail lines.
jobsanger thinks it's bad news that six of the most powerful eleven committees in the House of Representatives will be chaired by Texas Republicans.
Texas Politics reports that the TXGOP won't be moving their primary from March 1 in order to create a "Super Southern Tuesday" primary with six other Dixie Republican strongholds.
Socratic Gadfly bids a hasty lumbago to Rick Perry.
The Dallas Morning Views makes the case for a national child day-care system.
Texas Observer Radio has an interview with founder Ronnie Duggar.
Fascist Dyke Motors tells a story about faith.
Unfair Park posted that Flower Mound's "Year of the Bible" was a flop.
Texas Vox warns that too many Americans underestimate the effect of climate change on their health.
SciGuy tells the tale of retrieving the Orion spacecraft from the Atlantic Ocean after splashdown, as related by someone who was there for the Apollo spacecraft in the 1970s.
Ten-year-old Hadi Tameez explains the allure of Minecraft to us old folks.
Former Texan Elise Hu shares what she has learned about miscarriages.
The Great God Pan Is Dead recapped all the art books he read in 2014.
Juanita Jean has some fun at the expense of people who use Glenn Beck and Ron Paul as their financial advisors.
Last, Free Press Houston has the account of the hideous cyberstalking of Houston's anti-police abuse and First Amendment activist, Evan Carroll.
Off the Kuff stays on top of all of the legislative special elections that are going on.
Libby Shaw republished a diary she posted last year on Texas Kaos on Daily Kos in order to remind us about what happens in a state with so little oversight. GOP Texas: Where state funded cancer research can become a slush fund for politicians.
WCNews at Eye on Williamson points out that there's no telling what will happen in the next legislative session, but some think it won't be so bad. Don't buy it: Let's Not Get Ahead Of Ourselves.
The blood lust of the Texas Republicans will not be sated with just five doses of execution drugs available. CouldBeTrue of South Texas Chisme wonders what Greg Abbott will do.
Some recent national conversations seem to reinforce the premise that an independent progressive movement might be valuable to affect the kind of change that would attract the vast majority of non-voting Americans. What it might look like and where to get started remain the primary hurdles. PDiddie at Brains and Eggs found some justification in his efforts to work within and without the Democratic Party simultaneously.
Neil at All People Have Value said we have the right to elect liberals to public office in big cities without the police rebelling and undermining the democratically elected choice of the people. All People Have Value is part of NeilAquino.com.
Uncle O'Grimacy at McBlogger, in a post-election spurt of frequent blogging, catalogued the butthurt of Battleground Texas.
Egberto Willlies pounced on a truth inconveniently uttered by Sunday Talking Head Chuck Todd.
Bluedaze would really like to know exactly who Chris Faulkner of Breitling Energy is.
And the Lewisville Texas Journal has the city's answers to questions about Ferguson Plaza.
-------------------
And here's some great posts from other blogs across Texas.
Grits for Breakfast has a question for incoming Bexar County DA Nico Lahood about post-conviction case reviews.
TransGriot updated the (still-delayed) status of Houston Metro's newest light rail lines.
jobsanger thinks it's bad news that six of the most powerful eleven committees in the House of Representatives will be chaired by Texas Republicans.
Texas Politics reports that the TXGOP won't be moving their primary from March 1 in order to create a "Super Southern Tuesday" primary with six other Dixie Republican strongholds.
Socratic Gadfly bids a hasty lumbago to Rick Perry.
The Dallas Morning Views makes the case for a national child day-care system.
Texas Observer Radio has an interview with founder Ronnie Duggar.
Fascist Dyke Motors tells a story about faith.
Unfair Park posted that Flower Mound's "Year of the Bible" was a flop.
Texas Vox warns that too many Americans underestimate the effect of climate change on their health.
SciGuy tells the tale of retrieving the Orion spacecraft from the Atlantic Ocean after splashdown, as related by someone who was there for the Apollo spacecraft in the 1970s.
Ten-year-old Hadi Tameez explains the allure of Minecraft to us old folks.
Former Texan Elise Hu shares what she has learned about miscarriages.
The Great God Pan Is Dead recapped all the art books he read in 2014.
Juanita Jean has some fun at the expense of people who use Glenn Beck and Ron Paul as their financial advisors.
Last, Free Press Houston has the account of the hideous cyberstalking of Houston's anti-police abuse and First Amendment activist, Evan Carroll.
