Category: Texas Politics
The continuing Creationist attempts to influence the Texas Board of Education
by Graham 
As those of you who live in my home state may know, the Texas Board of Education has been under pressure from pro-Creationism members and from external organizations to water down the teaching of Evolution in the science curriculum in Texas. This attempt… more »
04/22/09 05:03:30 pm, Texas secession...or how to prove the First Law of Idiocy
by Graham
While I was on vacation in the Bahamas, it seems that Rick Perry, our Governor, hinted that Texas could always secede from the Union if it did not like the political direction out of Washington. He apparently made the comments in Austin at one of several… more »
The USA as a Third World country - Texas school boards
by Graham
When I first arrived in Dallas in 1994 on a 1 year overseas assignment from the UK, it did not take me long to discover that the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) was the sort of organization that Will Rogers would have loved to report on. For ex… more »
Spoilt Brat and Wanker of the Year winner?
by Graham
Our candidate for this new award? Step forward Elizabeth Shelton, the daughter of Texas juvenile court judge Pat Shelton:
...Shelton, the daughter of juvenile judge Pat Shelton, is accusing truck driver Lance Bennett of negligence in the Oct. 23, 2007,… more »
Way to go, Terrell...
by Graham
No, this posting is not about Terrell Owens of the Dallas Cowboys.
It is about the local newspaper in Terrell TX (note to breitbart.tv - Terrell is in Texas, not Oklahoma), the Terrell Tribune, which, uniquely strangely among newspaper outlets, decided… more »
More horseshit being generated by legal authorities in Texas...
by Graham
Courtesy of Robert Guest's legal blog, we have two egregious examples of BS as legal authorities in Texas attempt to enforce the legislation of private morality and actions.
The owners of the Cherry Pit are being hit with yet more ludicrous charges as… more »
Sometimes I despair of elected representatives...
by Graham
Sometimes you find out about a proposal from politicians that is so devoid of common sense, so unutterably stupid, that the instinct to shout "what were you thinking?" is inadequate. You really should shout "were you thinking at all?".
This latest bill… more »
An interesting story of education system gerrymandering...
by Graham
...within the sometimes dysfunctional mess that passes for the Dallas Independent School District. A judge's ruling opens the lid on a story of manipulation of pupil class management, designed to insulate white children from the majority non-white school… more »
More murky behaviour down in Austin...
by Graham
...where the Texas Ethics Commission has apparently re-written its own rules in order to determine that recipients of gifts do not have to disclose the monetary value of those gifts, in spite of the Ethics Commission rules that say they have to disclose… more »
A new diagnosis of the smell emanating from Dallas City Hall...
by Graham
...courtesy of this week's Dallas Observer, in which we find (surprise surprise) that the local waste of tree products known as the Dallas Morning News, while reporting the findings of an investigation, carefully avoided asking any awkward questions of t… more »