beware the cats -b
In a speech on Oct 20th1 Colin Powell said “You cannot eat plutonium“. Less than 2 months later (Dec 15), he has surgery to remove his prostate gland which has “localized cancer”2. Coincidence? -b
a week ago saturday (election day), there was a small snippit about it in today’s City & State section (full story) But in a nod to his name and his race — thought to be a liability before he managed to win supporters from Houston’s three main ethnic groups — the campaign cranked up an … Read more
According to Ronald Blum, AP Sportswriter, you can only make history in New York City, or perhaps only in the Bronx,… his logic is veiled. Well, he never really explains what the hell he means, but I’m sure that Andy Pettite can make history here in Houston. “Andy Pettitte chose home over history, agreeing Thursday … Read more
I’ll leave the World AIDS Day comments to the Chron (whom I agree with emphatically):
Nov. 29, 2003, 5:15PM
AIDS REALITY
From city streets to globe’s corners, a true pandemic
Today is World AIDS Day, a designation to which too many people will say, “So what?” — if they have any response at all.
Perhaps buoyed by the progress made in the treatment of the HIV virus or the misimpression that the disease has no effect on them, many people have turned a blind eye.
That’s exactly the wrong response.
“I got drunk,… as a skunk… because it rhymed.” – Drunkard’s Lullaby, The Minus Five
Studing the lingo that is Texas English, aka TXE. I thought it interesting that newcomers were particularly quick in picking it up.
The by-line is dated coincident with the start of the major ass whoopin’ that was put upon the Aggies this year. If it wasn’t for two Texas fumbles, it would have been 46-3. “Poooor Aggies”.
Scholars of Twang Track All the ‘Y’Alls’ in Texas
Fri Nov 28, 2:34 PM ET
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL The New York TimesCOLLEGE STATION, Tex. “Are yew jus’ tryin’ to git me to talk, is that the ah-deah?”
That was the idea. John O. Greer, an architecture teacher at Texas A&M University, sat at his dining table between two interrogators and their tape recorder. They had precisely 258 questions for him. But it waddn what he said that interested them most. It was how he said it.