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Four years ago, I wrote a letter. It was meant to badger someone into doing something I thought was important. They refused, but I don’t apologize for it, even though I completely understand that person’s decision — and ironically, have made exactly the same one. Hypocritical? I don’ t […]

Bob Krumm wants to keep Fred Thompson in the race. So do I. A whopping 5 states with only 5% of the delegates have voted so far, and the media is trying to talk him right out of the race. Dammit, I haven’t voted yet, you bastards! So he hasn’t […]

Which we already knew that, but now, Lawrence Simon has celebrated the launch of the new Metro blog with his own alternative. Head over there and check it out. (I like the Metro Prayer!)

Kentucky has begun blocking state workers’ access to various political and sports blogs.
One curious thing… According to the article, everyone is piling on Gov. Mark Fletcher (R) for ordering it… except nowhere does it say that he actually did order it. Omission? Secret order? Or everyone piling on to score political points against […]

Tory strikes again, over at Houston Strategies. In part 1 of a 2 part series, he discusses metro growth over the last 20 years. Key grafs:

Bill’s back. It’s just some brief notes about his plans, but it sounds like there’s a lot more goodness on the way. If you haven’t read this guy’s stuff, you’re missing a lot.

So for the last couple of weeks, I’ve mentioned a little project that I’ve been working on that took time away from blogging, and that it was related to possibly supporting and expanding the Houblog “empire.” Well, several days ago, I quietly premiered it without saying anything. (Mainly because I was feeling under […]

So yesterday, I picked up on this story about how CafePress bounced a check to Silent Running. I thought at the time that he might be jumping the gun by shutting down his CafePress store and going public with the issue, but Mondays are busy and I didn’t have time to comment. Well, […]

This morning, I decided to upgrade my account with SiteMeter, in order to get a better grasp on the traffic coming to my site. Some of the stats that I’ve collected today have been. . . um, peculiar.
I’m not sure how far back the records are going, but it’s further than since […]

In discussing the insane amount of bonuses that the police department mechanics make, Kevin Whited has coined the best description I’ve heard yet of the Brown era in Houston city government. Not necessarily the most accurate, mind you, but certainly the catchiest. More about it here and here.
I say it’s not the […]

Isolated Desolation is celebrating it’s first anniversery today. Congratulations!
Reading that made made me think however… didn’t I start in March also, with v.1 of the site? I went looking, and sure enough — my three year anniversery was yesterday! Yes, it’s the “first post” despite being ID#3, because the first two […]

Well, just to show that city employees are all about the money, I decided it was high time to start making some changes around here to help defray some of the expenses involved in running the site. It’s not like it’s a huge burden yet, but as I watch my download meter ticking higher every […]

Josh Hawkins of Right Wing News has posted a list of what he considers to be the “A-List” of the right wing online. Of course, I’m not on that list. I’m fairly confident in saying I wasn’t even considered when he made up the list; in fact, Josh probably isn’t aware Houblog exists. […]

All Things Beautiful has challenged the blogsphere to produce a list of the Top 10 Worst Americans of all time. This is going to take some thought, because I am not sure most people’s kneejerk inclusions are correct. Appearing in many lists are:
Alger Hiss
The Rosenbergs
Nixon
Carter
Jane Fonda
Arron Burr
Not sure about some of those…. Bad, […]

Round up of reaction to the Return of the Pajamas….