Did your team win? Did you overdo it at the party? Get back to work now (for those of us who still have a job to go to, that is). And if you get a break today, check out the best of last week's posts from the blogs of the Texas Progressive Alliance.
In her first ever YouTube video,
TXsharon shows the emissions boiling into the air when
a Barnett Shale gas well undergoes hydraulic fracture.
jobsanger examines the modern Republicans who call themselves conservatives, but have betrayed the beliefs and philosophical standards of past conservatives in
Where Are The Real Conservatives? Nat-Wu at
Three Wise Men has something to say about the student loan mess that's
making it impossible for many young adults to attend college these days.
The Texas Cloverleaf shows that pictures can tell a thousand words. And the
pictures of ships at anchor in Singapore is telling the world we are screwed.
Burnt Orange Report discusses the over
22,000 voters being purged from the Hidalgo County voter rolls.
CouldBeTrue of
South Texas Chisme explains
how the Republican free market principles work in real life using contaminated peanut butter as exhibit A.
Redistricting isn't just a state issue. Houston is under pressure to redraw its city council lines.
Off the Kuff takes a look at where this stands.
BossKitty at
TruthHugger is amazed at the social progress creeping around the world. America elects a biracial president. Iceland appoints an lesbian prime minister. What's next?
Yes We Can - Iceland Courageous.
Easter Lemming Liberal News writes his congressman while considering
the Republican death spiral.
WhosPlayin announced
46,000 layoffs this past week -- just in the blogging industry.
WCNews at
Eye On Williamson points out John Carter's latest shenanigans in
Carter's political ploy, the "Rangel Rule".
Things can get pretty ugly between fans of competing sports franchises and we at
McBlogger were not immune as
Cap'n Kroc and
Harry Balczak tear each other apart.
Over at
Texas Kaos, Libby Shaw's keeping an eye on Senator Jackass of Texas as he tries to heighten his national profile at the expense of American families. in his latest hit,
the buckskin fringed one votes against children having health care. Again.
The Republicans are having
an identity crisis, and the election of Michael Steele as RNC chair is not likely to help them solve it. PDiddie at
Brains and Eggs observes that Rush Limbaugh is still calling the shots, and they are all cheap.
Neil at Texas Liberal offers some thoughts on
city elections in Houston.
John Coby at Bay Area Houston publishes what
Rick Perry really said at his campaign kickoff speech in the Capitol.