Messin’ with Texas

My father found this in the Washington Post over the weekend. This is how I feel people are around here. There are so many hard-line conservatives in this part of Texas, I feel that I am the only one still rooting for the president in this are. I want to see a successfully reformed health [...]

This video was circulating around at work. I received it from someone who believes in the clear message of this video. Is anyone else bothered by this?

About a week or two ago, I got into a debate about healthcare with a guy here at work – actually I end up in these kinds of debates all the time, although it’s becoming less and less often as I learn to keep my mouth shut for the sake of peace. He said he [...]

I’ve been here for nine months now, and have done my best to make a life for myself. I have friends, I’m involved in local sports, I have restaurants that I frequent, I have bars that I frequent, and I even have a porch garden. One thing that continues to drive me crazy is the [...]

Here are a few snippets of conversation from the past week or so at work. They are of course all political. That’s really the thing that strikes me most about Texas; everyone is so conservative and suspicious of government. That, and all the nice sunrises I get to see. Texas has a beautiful sky in [...]

In a discussion about the morality and the role of the president last week, one coworker told me impressed me with his intimate knowledge of former president Bill Clinton. He said that the reason there was an attempt to impeach him and the reason he should have been impeached was that he committed sexual acts [...]

Yesterday we had a brief office conversation about politics. I don’t remember the whole conversation or how it went. I do remember that when I said “I prefer the european model of social democracy,” I was met with the following response:
That’s communism. Are you a mother #*!%*#& communist? Do you want us to be like [...]

A guy at work sent me this video. I enjoyed it the same way I enjoy Sean Hannity’s show:

Several of the pipefitters that I work with down here in Texas are quite interested in politics. One of our discussions was on guns and gun control, an issue very close to the hearts of Texans. At the time of the argument I hadn’t really formed an opinion on gun control. To me, the issue [...]

Last week I was lured to one of the many “tea parties” that went on around the country on April 15th, 2009 (tax day). Two friends of mine were going and I figured that it was something worth seeing. I remember living in Turkey and thinking how cool it was to see people out in [...]