Currently (on Sun 5:53AM CST from Pearland Regional Airport)   Clear Temp: 36° Dewpoint: 34° Wind: Calm MPH   After a gorgeous day yesterday, the sun is rising over the start of what looks to be…

Driving toward Kerrville along the Guadalupe River somewhere west of Hunt…

I have been out of the Photo Friday habit lately…It’s time to jump back in…

After years of having a daily routine, finding myself lacking one is more than a little uncomfortable.  Getting up and having breakfast without that normal get out the door deadline has left me disoriented to…

Turning The Page Sherry and I had scheduled this past weekend as a four day celebration a long time ago. Making sure we both had arrangements to take Friday and Monday off appproved and on…

Zell Miller was right sort of – Paul Krugman – Op-Ed Columnist – New York Times Blog.

The Guardian has this to say about yesterday… They did it. They really did it. So often crudely caricatured by others, the American people yesterday stood in the eye of history and made an emphatic…

Pre-Election Day Twenty O’Eight While everyone else is focusing on the election tomorrow, Bush and Company are getting a lot of the agenda they tried to pass and failed to do done anyway. The power…

This says it better than I could… First, we need a president who can speak English and deconstruct and navigate complex issues so Americans can make informed choices. Second, we need a president who can…

Leon Hale’s weekly column this morning reached back to before my birth…But, he touched a chord even so. The final lines though really rang true… I guess what got me going on television is that…

The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will…

Currently (on Tue 5:53AM CDT from Pearland Regional Airport) Clear Temp: 41° Dewpoint: 34° Wind: Calm MPH I woke up this morning at about 3:45 smelling something burning. Sherry sat up at about the same time…

Just call me Paul the Professor Colbert, via Crooks and Liars: I for one appreciate the McCain campaign treating us like children. McCain will bring us back to a simpler time. A time when you…

While my friends on the Blue Ridge are climbing out of bed this morning and firing up their stoves to beat back the cold we finaly greeted some nice fall weather. The temperature this morning…

For me the most moving moment came when the family in front of me, comprising probably 4 generations of voters (including an 18 year old girl voting for her first time and a 90-something hunched-over…

Put that fruit juice down and grab a Coke. Haven’t you heard? High-fructose corn syrup — the ubiquitous sweetener found in everything from soft drinks to ketchup — isn’t bad for you at all. It’s…

This I can believe… Check out the comments from the Congresswoman from Minnesota at about 2:40…Are we back to McCarthyism already? When I heard her on Cris Matthews’ podcast I was amazed by her comments…

Only in Houston could you hear a 66° temperature referred to as a “chilly autumn morning”. All summer I’ve been amazed by the weather prognosticators descriptive adjectives. The mid-nineties and ozone warnings does not a…

What happens when credit markets seize up? We are beginning to see the result now: Businesses can’t expand or don’t open, houses aren’t bought or sold, and economic growth slows to a crawl. In minority…

Poverty (also called penury) is deprivation of common necessities that determine the quality of life, including food, clothing, shelter and safe drinking water, and may also include the deprivation of opportunities to learn, to obtain…

This link is as much for me as it is for you few folks who read these daily musings. Farmer in Chief By MICHAEL POLLAN Dear Mr. President-Elect, It may surprise you to learn that…

Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences on Monday. “It’s been an extremely weird day, but weird…

Sitting here before sunup with the french doors open in the kitchen…Bird calls and air cool enough to keep the AC from kicking on (at least for an hour or so) wafting through with the…

I heard this on my NPR podcast…I hope you like it…

Widely regarded as America’s greatest living songwriter, Bob Dylan has written and recorded some of the most influential and acclaimed music of the past century. With countless studio albums, compilations and live discs to his…

For the first time in the back half of the year it really does feel like autumn this morning…We are even feeling like the mountains I long for… Alvin, TX 55.0 °F / 12.8 °C…

Palin, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, launched the attack Saturday and repeated it twice Sunday, signaling a new strategy by John McCain’s presidential campaign to go after Obama’s character. “The comments are about an association that…

Every time Joe Biden made mention of the last eight years, Sarah Palin would chastise him for looking to the past not the future. Look who’s digging deep now. SEDONA, Ariz., Oct. 4 — GOP…

Makes sense to me…

Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan: It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in…

If you haven’t discovered TED Talks yet, you should. Really smart, really passionate people giving really passionate talks about subjects they know and love to people who really listen…

After wondering for days where the cool mornings the weather prognosticators kept telling me about were hiding, they arrived this morning. As a native to this climate in SE Texas, I am always amazed to…

But it’s equally clear that in recent years Mr. McCain has become impish cubed — impulsive, impetuous and impatient — and those are perilous qualities in a commander in chief.(1) What we learned last week…

Traffic signals at about 1,200 Houston area intersections were not yet working Tuesday but should all have at least a flashing red light by the end of next week, said Mike Marcotte, the city’s director…

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the…

As a die hard West Wing fan I just loved this from Maureen Dowd… OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who…

After the storm, once you realize you’ve lived through another, your awareness of your surroundings is contracted. You begin by wandering around just your own little space surrounding your home…Checking for damage, fixing the immediate…

We got our power and phones back last night. The neighbors are still dark. I don’t know exactly what the it is the government learned from Katrina, but living through their opinion of a well…

This isn’t looking very good…Again. The latest 12Z (8 am EDT) computer models continue to show that Ike will track northwest into the central Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and Wednesday. However, there has been…

Deprivatization I wish people wouldn’t say that Fannie and Freddie have been “nationalized.” I mean, it’s basically accurate, but it conveys the wrong impression. The fact is that Fannie Mae was originally a government agency;…

With Hurricane Ike set to travel nearly the length of Cuba today before heading into the Gulf of Mexico, residents from Texas to Florida face another week of worrying about whether their communities will fall…

For all the Republicans who are exulting that there’s now a “rock star” on the GOP ticket (and all the Democrats who are freaking out about it), there is one minor detail that’s worth considering…

Happy Papaw with newest addition to the family tree… Cameron Jay September 5, 2008 And with beaming Grandma And shortly it’ll be back to the hospital.

I sit here this morning for the first time in months having my morning coffee with the door open and the sounds of birds and dogs and squirrels serenading me. The temperature has dipped into…

And, I think, they find her acceptably “real,” because Palin’s not intimidating, and makes it clear that she’s subordinate to a great man. That’s the worst thing a woman can be in this world, isn’t…

The drive to hire private contractors to take over duties performed by state employees in agencies under the oversight of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission — mandated by the Legislature five years ago…