Monday, March 22, 2021

The Ketchup Wrangle from Far Left Texas

Last week I said I would post a Great State update on Tuesday and delivered on Wednesday, followed by another promised on Thursday, which was not posted then, nor Friday, nor Saturday.  As my old former blogging friend Neil Aquino used to say, "either you run the blog or the blog runs you."  The lovely spring weather and all of the coming-out events last week took precedence over following up on our miserable political representation.  If you got outside over the course of the past several days then you know exactly what I mean.

“It’s overwhelming because we just jumped back into everything so quickly. Everyone is asking you to come do this or come do that but, at the end of the day, I’m just happy to see my friends and everybody having a good time being out and about.”

Everywhere I went people had shed their masks, were enjoying the sun and each other's company, were dressed up and made up, and living with a sense of things returning to normal after a year of hiding indoors at home, scared of invisible bugs, washing our hands until they're cracked dry, and wearing sweat pants and no underwear.

Maybe that last was just me.  Not paying attention -- whether it be to COVID safety protocols or to ongoing misbehavior at the Lege -- can have a steep price.


"Election integrity", i.e. voter suppression, is how we got started this time last week.  Governor Wheels stayed busy and on point with his hypocrisy, as you know.


He and Dade Phelan did manage to cut off Dan Patrick and SB2142 at the knees, which may or may not be a win for Texans.  The session still has a long way to go, and there will be lots of things these people won't be doing anything about.


Here I'll shift focus for this first Wrangle to the more positive and happy things happening.  Reform Austin posts "Good Bill Hunting", a semi-regular series that finds the silver lining under the Dome, this week focusing on Rep. James Talarico's $70K teacher salary bill.


And with lots on all the usual topics in the funnel, I'm wrapping here with more of the feel-good before posting the snark, the bad behavior, and the just plain atrocious later.  Whenever (but soon).

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Sunday, March 21, 2021

Sunday "Everyday Madness" Funnies


Nick Anderson, who founded Counterpoint, was interviewed by Houstonia Magazine about his cartooning career post-newspapers: "(A)rtists from all political leanings are providing takes on today’s biggest headlines as contributors. Of the 18 satirists, ten -- like Anderson -- saw their jobs cut. It’s too soon to know if Counterpoint will hit it big (at the moment it has more than 170,000 subscribers), but if it does this could be a way to ensure that his art form doesn’t just die out."

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