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It’s like the Hatcoys and the McFields up in here!

When I saved the screen capture for yesterday’s “Drug Debt Sparks Fued” post, I ignored my usual practice of numbering the images I upload and saved the jpeg as “fued.jpg”, never thinking that I’d be uploading “fued02.jpg” or “fued03.jpg”. KRIS-TV’s Mitch Bryan proves me wrong:

Local journalism at its finest

Yahoo’s new homepage features links to local news stories, most of which I never bother to check out. I couldn’t pass pass up this story, though: Drug Debt Sparks Fued. In case they’ve cleaned up the headline, here’s a screen capture for you (and note the spelling in the URL of the article):

Not to [...]

Bootlicking Texans

You’ve probably already read about the 4 year-old kid who got suspended from a Mesquite, TX school because his hair is too long.

I’m fully aware that Texas is one of the top 4 states for general asshattery (The other three being Missouri and Kansas, with Florida at a solid #1). Shit, I don’t get defensive [...]

Living among the Puritans

I’ve been keeping an eye on the Letters to the Editor section of The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, hoping for some choice War on Christmas material. Instead, this showed up in the November 25 Letters to the Editor of the local paper:

What’s going on here? When I turned to the comic strip “Zits” on Nov. 6, [...]

It doesn’t have to be Christian to suck (but it helps)

This video has been making the rounds as of late: a group of Youth Pastors at some Jesus Camp-type gathering warning about the evils of “front hugging”. Seriously.

It would be too easy to take the low road and say “how typically Christian”; sure, the lyrics are fucked-up in a way that only Christians could [...]

He must not have had his taser handy

A Texas cop has a run-in with Basement Cat and lives to tell about it.

Props to the cop for his patience. If it had been a dog, the situation might have played out differently.

By way of I Can Has Cheezburger.

Local law enforcement discover the Taser... with expected results.

I feel bad for not following this story more closely, but better late than never.

On October 11, guards at the Nueces County Jail tasered 26 year-old Eric Green and had to perform CPR on him. The tasering must have been pretty intense, as this screen capture shows Mr. Green’s booking photo on the left and [...]

Save Memorial Coliseum! ... or don't.

I try to be grateful for living in a part of Texas not completely overrun by religious kooks*, but the Letters to the Editor section of my local paper continually tests my patience. In fact, sometimes it’s a little bit frightening to realize I’m surrounded by people just smart enough to be aware that religious [...]

Reason #2,388 newspapers are dying

Last week, an opinion piece appeared in my local paper, The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, entitled, “For the record, we back Perry 100 degrees … er, percent”. The local paper doesn’t have it archived online, but it can be read in its entirety at Austin American-Statesman.

The piece is a tongue-in-cheek endorsement of Governor Rick Perry’s re-election [...]