Monthly Archives: August 2017

Straus Spikes Abbott Special Session Agenda By Adjourning Early

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Once again Texas Speaker Joe Straus has used parliamentary maneuvers to thwart conservative reform: In an unprecedented abuse of power, House Speaker Joe Straus unilaterally adjourned the Texas House without warning a day before the special session called by Gov. … Continue reading →

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Battle of Raqqa Grinds On

Posted on August 15, 2017 by Lawrence Person

News from the Battle of Raqqa is hard to come by. U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have reportedly linked up to completely surround Islamic State forces. The Islamic State had already been surrounded on land, but their access to a small … Continue reading →

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Meet the New Westboro Baptist Church

Posted on August 14, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Remember the Westboro Baptist Church? They were a tiny band of idiots who traveled the country protesting gay rights at military funerals for some damn reason. The mainstream media reported constantly on their stupid antics as a means to smear, … Continue reading →

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Random Amusing Tweet on North Korea

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Lawrence Person

I LOLed… pic.twitter.com/2lyNL6iphk — Surreal (@Surrealbeliefs) August 12, 2017

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Identity Politics and The Liberal Crackup

Posted on August 12, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Interesting essay by Mark Lilla in The Wall Street Journal on how how identity politics has destroyed liberalism: There is a mystery at the core of every suicide, and the story of how a once-successful liberal politics of solidarity became … Continue reading →

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LinkSwarm for August 11, 2017

Posted on August 11, 2017 by Lawrence Person

North Korea is making crazy threats again, which at this point is a dog-bites-man type story if ever there was one. They’ve done this sort of crazy lunatic invalid sabre-rattling before and, if President Trump doesn’t end up wiping them … Continue reading →

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Abbott Raises $41 Million and His Democratic Opponent Owns a Gay Leather Bar

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Having contributed to a few Republican candidates over the years, I’m on all sorts of email solicitation lists. Including Governor Greg Abbott’s reelection campaign. Most election campaigns, I received 1-2 pieces of email a week. The Abbott campaign, by contrast, … Continue reading →

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More On Google’s Ritual Heretic Burning

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Lawrence Person

There’s more news on the memo that got Google engineer James Damore fired. Now that I’ve read it, while I don’t agree with everything, there’s nothing in it that a rational person would regard as “crazy” or a “hate crime.” … Continue reading →

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Read the Google Memo

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Lawrence Person

Yesterday I was recovering from Armadillocon, but since I still had a zillion things to do, I guess I’m still recovering today as well. Which means blogging will be a little on the lite side. So let me jump on … Continue reading →

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Light Attack Aircraft: A Niche That Doesn’t Exist

Posted on August 7, 2017 by Lawrence Person

The Air Force has an experimental program to deliver a low-cost light attack aircraft for ground support duties. The light attack aircraft experiment, or OA-X project, has produced propeller-driven aircraft that look like a cross between a Diamond DA40 and … Continue reading →

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