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The Good The Bad and The Biden

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      There were two presidents that day in the National Cathedral. One in a pew, and one in a box. I remember Jimmy Carter taking office. I voted for him. I was young, dumb, and that other thing. We were all liberal democrats down here. We’d have voted for Scoobie Doo if he was White House broke. Run the country? How hard could it be? Kiss a few babies and let Congress have its way. That was before the Ayatollah Khomemini tied his administration into a pretty pink bow and made Delta Force look like the Keystone Cops.   A president with a drunken brother pissing in the Rose Garden. What could possibly go wrong? By the time Carter went home to Georgia half the country was allergic to peanuts. Texas went Republican and never came back. Jimmy picked up a hammer and started renovating old shacks and somehow the country survived. Joe Biden was on the scene, though not as evident as he would be later in his career.   Democrat presidents would be few and far between af...
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Fast Times at Ellison High

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      I am going to open this week with a heads up for parents here in Killeen. First I want to point out I’m discussing a local (Killeen) issue involving schools, parents, and escalating problems with national implications so I don’t need any hall monitors saying I’m not on topic, adhering to the rules or posting anything that needs to be fact checked.   I will dispense with introductions because most of you know who I am. I will not mention what I do in my business because that’s not allowed and has no place here. Suffice to say that my interests occupy my time.   As you may or may not know, my grandson got into a situation recently at Ellison High School. As with similar situations there and indeed at many other schools in Texas it involved drugs. I’m sorry if I’m the first to have to tell you that kids do drugs. When I went to Killeen High way back when we drank beer. Ok! Now we have that out in the open. Justin is not a mental giant. He’s a follower. ...
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I’ll Never Forget the Taste of That Clear Blue Water

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      When I was eighteen, I ran away from home. Yeah, I’ve always been a conservative. I’d come to Texas from Shreveport in 1962 at the age of eleven.  Culture shock doesn’t even begin to describe my transition from pine trees to no trees. Oh, Central Texas had a form of tree. Not enough to form a windbreaker but larger than a mailbox. And they were predominantly cedar.  Not the “cedar of Lebanon” mentioned in the Bible but a first cousin to scrub oak. Each spring it would develop these pods that would burst in the Texas heat, putting this kinda blue haze in the air. If you had allergies it would fill up your nose. If you didn’t have allergies it would fill up your nose. Cedar is the only tree that would carve it’s initials on YOU!   I spent my years of school dripping snot on my desk. And that was just the beginning. Back in Louisiana I’d started the first grade in Lake Charles. At five years old. My birthday was September 11 th and the rule was you had ...
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The Second Coming of Donald Trump

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      Who said there ain’t no God! As the smoke rises from Hollywood and Vine only a blind man can’t see the vindication of all that is right and good about America. You remember America, don’t you? Shirley Temple, Bugs Bunny, the Little Rascals? People dressing up to go to the supermarket? Dallas people waving American flags as President Kennedy smiled and waved? And the hard times. The Civil War? The Civil Rights Act that made it stick? And the American wrath upon those who killed 3,000 plus of our friends, neighbors, and countrymen on September 11? Yeah! THAT America! Well, how do you like us now?   Behold the second coming of Donald Trump. And Sir Donald is just the beginning. The tip of the iceberg. The voice of America heard ‘round the world on November 5 th when We the People said, “ENOUGH!” We aren’t going to need a wall. When we get through, the border will be secure because those trying to sneak in will KNOW better. And if they don’t the State Department w...
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Who Says There Ain’t No God?

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      “Miracles appear in the strangest of places” brother Willie tells us in the song, ‘Yesterday’s Wine.’ And I saw one appear this morning at 5:00. The Witt & Wittier film, “Kielia” went up on Amazon Prime! And if that’s not a miracle I’m not a white boy from Austin. Austin! Let that soak in. While Austin has a reputation for innovation and entertainment it’s always an uphill battle.   In 2012 when I woke at 3:00 AM after a party I poured a whiskey to placate the effects of yet another night in the garage apartment I called home. The screen on my eMac came alive and I began to look through my directory of the hundreds of stories, articles, and books I’d written down through the years, all selling well under a million sales. To say I was uninspired at this point is an understatement. So, in true Texas fashion I poured another drink.   In a pallet on the floor a girl was sleeping. She’d been at the party and was so well connected in town that she had asked ...
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