Yesterday I had to swing by the Post Office to drop off a couple of Netflix returns and ran into the local “teabagger” protest…All 100 of the…maybe. All I could do was shake my head and wonder what exactly they were protesting. Do they even know? Was it taxes? Was it paying for the roads [...]
Today is Texas Independence Day, when a group of men met in a tiny unfinished wooden building in the small town of Washington-On-The-Brazos to take the daring step of announcing to the world that they were creating a new nation.
via Writer finds record of Texas’ birth 173 years ago today | Houston & Texas News [...]
The garden for recovery movement keeps gaining ground…Roger Doiron has an op-ed out this weekend…
In Jerzy Kosinski’s novel and award-winning screenplay, “Being There,” the U.S. president turns to a plain-spoken gardener named Chance for wisdom at a time of economic crisis. The insight Chance offers is as simple as it is reassuring: Growth has its [...]