Author Archives: Lawrence Person

About Lawrence Person

Lawrence Person is a political commentator and science fiction writer living in Austin, Texas. I'm still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you're so inclined.

Central Texas Flooding: Worst May Be To Come

The worst flooding in the Austin area may still be to come: The LCRA is now projecting that Lake Travis may rise to between 705-710 ft. elevation by Friday, approaching the all-time record crest of 710.4 ft. from Christmas, 1991. … Continue reading →

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The Onion On Bobby Francis

All I can say is: Nice one, Onion. Even funnier if you live in the Austin area… (And more from the same source.) (Hat tip: Will Franklin on Twitter.)

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Dangerous Flooding Along the Llano River

If you hadn’t heard, heavy rains have caused serious flooding along the Llano river and the Texas hill country. The Farm to Market 2900 bridge in Kingsland over Lake LBJ (just before the Llano and Colorado rivers meet) has collapsed: … Continue reading →

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Google Introduces New Room 101 App In China

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Beijing, China) Today Google announced they were releasing a new application developed for China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Dubbed “Room 101,” the new software not only tracks the “social credit rating” of all citizens, but also … Continue reading →

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The Islamic State Counterattacks

The outcome of the investment of the Hajin pocket seemed perfectly clear: As in Raqqa and Mosul, U.S. backed forced would slowly but surely reduce the pocket in grinding urban warfare until all of its Islamic State defenders were dead … Continue reading →

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The Project Veritas Deep State Videos

Remember back all the way to last month, when the the Kavanaugh hearings went from senators questioning a nominee over his philosophy to ideological nuclear war over what one woman may have remembered about something that may have happened at … Continue reading →

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Gosnell Opened Yesterday

You might want to consider seeing it if you’re the “watching movies in theaters” type. Here’s the trailer:

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LinkSwarm for October 12, 2018

Trying to edit this last night brought up a repeated 502 error, since fixed. So enjoy this LinkSwarm as a triumph of persistence over technology: How the Kavanaugh fight united the right around President Donald Trump: Trumpism is now the … Continue reading →

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Beto Boomlet Busts

Remember all that breathless talk on how Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke was going to beat incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz as part of a giant “blue wave” against President Donald Trump? New polls say: Not so much. According to a … Continue reading →

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Google Embraces Censorship

The leadership of Google is very, very upset that you commoners keep making political choices of which they disapprove, so they’ve crafted a document to justify why they have to censor your views. They favor a “European” regime to emphasize … Continue reading →

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