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Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming

My father-in-law, Gary, is a true orange-blooded Texas Longhorn. He is the only child of two graduates of the University of Texas. He graduated from the pharmacy school the year of our last national championship (pre-Vince), married a Longhorn, and raised two daughters – both Texas graduates and both Texas Angels while […]

Mack Brown meets with Barack Obama

The Statesman has all the details and pictures.

‘Would you consider running for another position?’

Net Flix Picks

Here are a four movies that you may have missed out on that you should add to your Netflix queue. You’ll thank me unless your tastes run primarily to Armageddon or Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. If there’s one common thread to be found in the four varied movies below, it’s that each respects the […]

Delegates to Provide Happy Ending

Vigorously massage them with all your might.
On the Republican side of the aisle, Governor Mike Huckabee lashed back over the weekend by capitalizing on the ineradicable discontent amongst conservative voters by easily winning in Kansas and Louisiana.
Senator McCain will remain the inevitable nominee. The Huckabee victories are unsurprisingly minimized by the vast […]

The Ass Menagerie

“Don’t blame the American people! Blame the Democratic Party leadership. Terry McAuliffe is an idiot.” – Zack Exley, 2002
“I ought to be left alone; I’m not doing money anymore. I’m not involved in any campaigns. My wife and I decided I don’t want to do it anymore.” — Terry McAuliffe during federal […]

Improved PR for Crack Cocaine

The United States Sentencing Commission voted to reduce the mandatory sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine. Even though crack is the same substance as cocaine, sentences levied for crack were 100 times more stringent than offenses involving powdered cocaine. These laws were conceived back when Ronald Reagan was rapidly devising new ways to get […]

Hostages Taken at Clinton Headquarters

Rochester, N.H. — An embarrasingly lightweight drunk, Leeland Eisenburg, 47, entered the Rochester headquarters of the Hillary Clinton campaign with road flares, a Cornish game hen, a package of hot dogs and AA batteries strapped to his chest. The Somersworth, N.H. resident insisted that the desultory assortment fastened to his torso was a bomb […]

Shallow Observations on a Shallow Pool of Presidential Candidates

Here we are. My goodness how four years can fly by when we’re watching our country’s bravest have their limbs blown off in the effort of providing a democracy to a bunch primitive fuckers who don’t want it, much less deserve it. It’s time for the Republicans to race each other to see […]

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