Senator Cornyn's Growing Irrelevance (w/Poll)
roses suggested I pass along to everyone here a Letter to the Editor I had published in this morning's Austin American-Statesman concerning the recent filibuster compromise: Cornyn loses relevance One...
View ArticleSome Sex and the Medical Marijuana Case (with poll)
During the debate over Texas' anti-Gay Marriage Amendment on the floor of the Texas State Senate late last month, Senator Leticia Van de Putte (D-San Antonio) proposed a radical amendment to the...
View ArticleTom DeLay Snake Attacks Austin Kossacks!
This just in from Austin! As many of you aware, thanks to janet strange, the Austin Kossacks are working hard to make sure the blogging community is an effective and important part of DemFest this...
View ArticleGumbo and Jambalaya
Welcome to the Austin Kos Live Blog of the New Orleans Survivors Gunbo and Jambalaya Friday Evening Gathering from Othniel's Digs. About Twenty Folk who recently relocated to the Austin Convention...
View ArticleA Place to Lay My Head - New Orleans to Austin
Just stopped off for Ruffin to heat up some Gumbo on the way to move into his apartment. Ruffin is excited to be leaving the Austin Convention Center, and to have a place of his own in Austin for now....
View ArticleI'd be so Proud to Vote for any of them.
Just returned from a quick dash out shopping for stocking stuffers here in Austin. In the parking lot I noticed a car with an Obama '08 bumper sticker. The woman who exited the car could have been...
View ArticleThank God for Barney Frank (with poll)
Thank God for Barney Frank.Suck on that Republicans. One of us Gay people you cannot stand is the gatekeeper to your next paycheck.
View ArticleHigh Tech Bigots attack No on 8 Website
The No on 8 website (California) and the No on 2 website (Florida) appear to have come under coordinated attack just as fundraising is closing prior to the election.Homeland Security ought to have...
View ArticleAin't Gonna Study War No More (Poll)
Can you feel the healing wind of Hope?Down by the Riverside, from New Orleans past Memphis, St. Louis and up to Minnesota. From Boston to Charleston. All over the Pacific Coast and through the...
View ArticleGod and Husband of Us All (Poll)
Many of you who have read my posts know me as a Gay Texas Attorney, a father of two (there really are three) sons by adoption (with the grandmother still in Arkansas we are having some serious issues...
View ArticleAIG Attorney Donates $9,995.00 to Yes on 8
Austin attorney Roger D. Hepworth of the Texas Law Firm Henslee Schwartz donated $9,995.00 to the Yes on 8 campaign. While Mr. Hepworth certainly has a freedom of association, and while we wish he...
View ArticlePastor of First Baptist Dallas Says God Made Sex for Fun
Just like Steve Jobs made iPods for fun. Well Apples had something to do with both, I guess.Some of you understand this really is breaking news, but in theological time that is measured by millenia,...
View ArticleChronic Tonic: Self-Determination in Health Care, Rights & Responsibilities...
Welcome to CHRONIC TONIC, a continuing series of Thursday Kos Diaries for individuals diagnosed with chronic illness and conditions, as well as for family members, caregivers and professionals whose...
View ArticleHomeless Shelter Fire - Tragedy in Paris, Texas
I cannot imagine the horror and pain the residents of the residents of the shelter operated by Seed Sowers Christians in Action in Paris, Texas, felt as they fled the early morning fire which engulfed...
View ArticleLet's Go Fly a Kite!
Let's Go Fly a Kite Up to the Highest Height Let's Go Fly a Kite and Send It Soaring Up through the Atmosphere up Where the Air Is Clear[Fair Use for social, cultural and political comment and...
View ArticleTexas Republican Senate asks National Taxpayers to help intimidate Texas Voters
I realize most Americans are so tired of Texas Republicans they just tune out to what goes on down here. But this time your federal tax dollars are involved. San Francisco? Boston? Madison?...
View ArticleTexas Judge Sharon Keller and The Seven Deadly Virtues. Poll!
Ah. Camelot; - but there always is a Mordred.The seven deadly virtues, those ghastly little traps Oh no, my liege, they were not meant for me Those seven deadly virtues were made for other chaps Who...
View ArticleSo Long, Farewell (with poll - not a GBCW at all)
Goodbye Oliver Cromwell.Take Calvin with you.Bye, Bye Virginia Foxx, Maggie the Marriage Maven, and Betty "Go Back to Asia" Brown. Miss California has made the whine fest but missed the bust, er,...
View ArticleCalifornia Attorney General Files Answer to Perry v. Schwarzenegger
California Attorney General Jerry Brown [pdf] filed his answer to the Federal suit brought by Ted Olson and David Boies.One reason I really do prefer litigating in Federal Court is the Rules of Civil...
View ArticleToday I am ashamed to be a Texas lawyer.
In March I wrote a diary on Street Prophets about Chief Judge Sharon Keller of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals who faced removal from office or at least a reprimand after failing to keep her Court...
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