Guardian of the Non Sequitur

I’m going to SXSW next week (http://www.sxsw.com/music). It’s a music festival in Austin, wed-sun. I’ll have more on that later.

-b

If you didn’t notice, a few weeks ago the Houston city council finally debated and voted on two propositions opposing a war in Iraq unless certain conditions occur.

Unfortunately the city council, like many other current politicians (the governor re: the budget), failed to show real leadership.

Here’s a Houston Chronicle article, and a letter of mine they printed in response, then a later ed/op by two California authors.

Feb. 26, 2003, 11:20PM
Houston council rejects two antiwar resolutions
Members argue over role in foreign policy

By KRISTEN MACK
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle

Houston City Council rejected two resolutions Wednesday opposing a U.S. attack on Iraq before U.N. weapons inspectors get more time to finish their work.

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if you were wondering, the current picture i’m using is of my dog, Porter. he’s a retired greyhound, 8 years old currently, and a total couch potato.

he mostly sleeps on the couch all day, or is jumping in your face when you arrive, he’s white with ticking and has a fawn brindle patch on his face,

there’s some more pics of him at
http://www.shirl.com/greyhounds/
if you’re interested
-b

it should be interesting to see where this experiment goes. right now, i’m just trying to populate the emptiness of the page so that i can see what various styles look like.

i expect this to be an opinions page.  Bill’s Ed/Op if you will, or perhaps my digest of the news of various sorts.  but i also expect to put some personal items on here: things of particular note, where i’m traveling to, or what the dog’s doing right now,

-b