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.

Shoigu Out As Russia’s Defense Minister

If your boss gives you one job, and you aren’t able to accomplish that one job in two plus years, there’s an excellent chance of your ass getting canned. Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose military has been criticized at home … Continue reading →

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Police Flee High Crime California For Texas

People like to feel like they’re appreciated and make a difference. In crime-friendly California, police don’t, so they’re headed to Texas. Hundreds of California cops are fleeing to Texas to escape ‘soft-on-crime’ policies they say have made their jobs ‘pointless’, … Continue reading →

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China: Old And Busted: 1 Bed, 1 Bath. The New Hotness: 1 Bed In Bathroom

How bad does housing suck if you’re poor and live in Shanghai, China? This much: “Shanghai’s landlords are quite ingenious, managing to convert even the smallest spaces into rentable rooms at high prices.” Bathroom with a ladder to a crude … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm For May 10, 2024

Details on the people and organizations dedicated to burning America down, more Biden corruption, more of his censorship regime, a few Russo-Ukrainian War updates, and a pedophile gets ventilated. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! Park MacDougald at Tablet has a really … Continue reading →

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Paxton Sues NGO For Aiding Illegal Alien Invasion

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took time out from his busy schedule of suing the Biden Administration to sue an NGO aiding the Biden Administration’s illegal alien invasion. The legal battle between Attorney General Ken Paxton and the non-governmental organization … Continue reading →

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Profiles In Pettiness

From California comes an amazing profile in pettiness. A school superintendent threatened action against members of a softball team and their parent over not clapping loudly enough for her own daughter. Marian Phelps was superintendent of the Powey Unified School … Continue reading →

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Given The Chance, Austin Voters Escape Austin

Not living in Austin, I missed the news that several de-annexation elections were on the May 4th ballot. In 2017, Texas lawmakers passed a bill stopping cities in large counties from being able to annex areas if residents didn’t want … Continue reading →

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Sony Surrenders In Battle Of Helldivers 2

It’s always fun when a giant multinational corporation tries to pull an extra-slimy move and the consumer backlash is so fierce that they have to back down. Helldivers 2 is a super-popular game created by Arrowhead Game Studios but published … Continue reading →

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Is Austin’s Toy Train Finally Dead?

Austin’s liberal establishment has been trying to trick taxpayers into pouring billions into their light rail boondoggle for decades, finally winning an apparent victory when voters approved a scheme in 2020. But it turns out that the terms of the … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Ballistics Tangles With .50 BMG Again

I assume that everyone reading this remembers when Scott of Kentucky Ballistics almost died when a spicy .50 BMG round blew up his gun. Evidently Scott can’t resist the siren song of the .50 BMG, and here’s two more videos … Continue reading →

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