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More A&M Chancellor Drama

Posted by Doperbo on July 1st, 2009 under

Apparently the Faculty Senate at A&M, previously best known for successfully blending togas and Carhartts during floor deliberations, passed a resolution yesterday that results in a vote of 'No Confidence' for current Chancellor Mike McKinney. You may remember McKinney from Taylor's excellent piece on the subject a few weeks ago. You may have also emailed his etch-a-sketch photo to numerous friends and family who've dissapointed you over the year as well, if not I
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For BCS Bowls, Charity Begins at Home

Posted by srr50 on May 27th, 2009 under Football

Joe Barton wants a D-1 college football playoff. Unlike most others who feel that way, Barton thinks he can do something about it. Barton, who went to A&M, is a representative in the U.S. House, and he has introduced three bills aimed at doing away with the BCS. Barton is also the ranking Republican on the House Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Subcommittee. Earlier this month Derrick Fox, the executive director of the Alamo Bowl
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Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming

Posted by BRAGGonUT on September 8th, 2008 under Football

My father-in-law, Gary, is a true orange-blooded Texas Longhorn. He is the only child of two graduates of the University of Texas. He graduated from the pharmacy school the year of our last national championship (pre-Vince), married a Longhorn, and raised two daughters – both Texas graduates and both Texas Angels while on campus. He joined the Longhorn Foundation in its inaugural year. In fact, when boosters were still legally
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Mack Brown meets with Barack Obama

Posted by HenryJames on February 21st, 2008 under

The Statesman has all the details and pictures. 'Would you consider running for another position?'
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Net Flix Picks

Posted by Scipio Tex on February 14th, 2008 under

Here are a four movies that you may have missed out on that you should add to your Netflix queue. You'll thank me unless your tastes run primarily to Armageddon or Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. If there's one common thread to be found in the four varied movies below, it's that each respects the viewer enough to arrive at some conclusions without a fucking map. The Lives of Others
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Delegates to Provide Happy Ending

Posted by Chooky on February 12th, 2008 under

Vigorously massage them with all your might. On the Republican side of the aisle, Governor Mike Huckabee lashed back over the weekend by capitalizing on the ineradicable discontent amongst conservative voters by easily winning in Kansas and Louisiana. Senator McCain will remain the inevitable nominee. The Huckabee victories are unsurprisingly minimized by the vast amount of extremely conservative blocs in both Kansas and Louisiana. McCain just won Virginia in a dogfight.
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The Ass Menagerie

Posted by Chooky on February 8th, 2008 under

"Don't blame the American people! Blame the Democratic Party leadership. Terry McAuliffe is an idiot." -- Zack Exley, 2002 “I ought to be left alone; I'm not doing money anymore. I'm not involved in any campaigns. My wife and I decided I don’t want to do it anymore.” -- Terry McAuliffe during federal inquiries, 2000 “… in 2000, we had a devastating loss. This party was demoralized in 2001,
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Improved PR for Crack Cocaine

Posted by Chooky on December 28th, 2007 under

The United States Sentencing Commission voted to reduce the mandatory sentencing guidelines for crack cocaine. Even though crack is the same substance as cocaine, sentences levied for crack were 100 times more stringent than offenses involving powdered cocaine. These laws were conceived back when Ronald Reagan was rapidly devising new ways to get more non violent Americans incarcerated, with the lone exemption of otherwise admirable folks who inadvertently stumbled
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Hostages Taken at Clinton Headquarters

Posted by Chooky on December 1st, 2007 under

Rochester, N.H. -- An embarrasingly lightweight drunk, Leeland Eisenburg, 47, entered the Rochester headquarters of the Hillary Clinton campaign with road flares, a Cornish game hen, a package of hot dogs and AA batteries strapped to his chest. The Somersworth, N.H. resident insisted that the desultory assortment fastened to his torso was a bomb and was positive his behavior would be an infallible method for acquiring a face to face discussion
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Shallow Observations on a Shallow Pool of Presidential Candidates

Posted by Chooky on August 22nd, 2007 under

Here we are. My goodness how four years can fly by when we're watching our country's bravest have their limbs blown off in the effort of providing a democracy to a bunch primitive fuckers who don't want it, much less deserve it. It's time for the Republicans to race each other to see who is the most god-fearing, and time for the democrats to dumbly roll out a