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Apologies: You’re Doing It Wrong (Roots Bistro Edition)
Update: You can read my thoughts on Roots Bistro’s response to this whole situation. I hope you’ll also consider making a donation to the Houston Area Women’s Center in honor of Roots Bistro. It is a...
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Top Tips for Shaking People Down for the Cause
Thanks to the internet, we’re all fundraisers now. How can you stand out and make sure you bring in the big bucks? Here are some of the things I kept in mind while I rolled past my fundraising goal for...
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The Astros, Their Wives, Charity, and the Houston Area Women’s Center
Full disclosure—I used to work at the Houston Area Women’s Center, so I definitely have some strong feelings about this. Keep in mind, however, that I speak only for myself on this blog. I’m really...
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Victory on #SB5 and What Comes Next
(See update at the end of this post for news about 2nd special session calls to action.) The past few months have been amazing—the initial stirrings of the Texas Spring. But you know how, so often, you...
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Dialogue, Common Ground, and Blue v. Orange
Nobody drives halfway across Texas—or halfway across the country—because they are unsure about what they believe. Nobody takes time off work to sit in a capitol extension overflow room for 9 hours...
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Remedial Four-Way Stop
It has come to my attention, Houston, that you willfully ignore standard rules of the road when storms knock power out to traffic signals. In order for the world not to devolve into total chaos,...
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Whose Discourse? Our Discourse!
Someone at MSNBC tweeted something implying that right-wing Republicans’ long history of intolerance and racism might mean they would not appreciate a commercial that features a biracial family being...
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The Bathroom Menace & Other Lies About Houston’s Equal Rights Ordinance
“Seattle Public Library (OMA Architects)” by Keith Daly via Flickr Steven Hotze, M.D., recently published these outright lies about the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance: Mayor Parker’s ordinance would...
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2014 Voting Recommendations
I’m going in order of the ballot, so the DA race will come in the middle of the judges. I’m adding hyperlinks as I have time to do so. See update for some judicial recommendations at the end, posted...
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What Comes Next: Advice from Simon Rosenberg
I’ve heard Simon Rosenberg speak twice now, and check in on his blog from time to time. Always weighty and thought-provoking. Trust me that I’m not giving anything away by excerpting the end of his...
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Remedial Four-Way Stop
It has come to my attention, Houston, that you willfully ignore standard rules of the road when storms knock power out to traffic signals. In order for the world not to devolve into total chaos,...
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Speak Up & Speak Out
I believe Free Press Summer Fest and Pegstar should cancel their contract with R. Kelly so he does not perform at FPSF this summer. They should do so because of R. Kelly’s extensively documented...
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Todd Smith, Come Collect Your Party
A Pentagon-ordered military training exercise, the kind of work the armed forces do on a regular basis all over the country so they can maintain peak readiness and prepare for hostile conditions should...
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Journalists and the Gish Gallop
This was the topic on the Diane Rehm show when I tuned in yesterday: Declining Access to Abortion Services Nationwide Two years ago, Texas passed a law requiring all clinics that offer abortions to...
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Five (More) Ways to Help Planned Parenthood If You Barely Have Any Money
I just saw an annotated listicle (is that what it’s called when it is a list with a paragraph or so plus an illustration for each numbered item?) on Bustle about 10 ways to help PP even if you’ve got a...
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Cruz Doesn’t Want All the Votes – He’s Smarter Than That
I hate those billboards that say “Think outdoor advertising doesn’t work? It just did!” What they mean is that you looked at it, but that’s not working. That’s just reading comprehension. Unless the...
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45-Year Old Cocks Head to Side Like Confused Puppy After Reading Rants of...
I read all three essays: the 25-year-old who wrote an open letter to her CEO, prompting a 29-year-old to write an open letter to snake people* like that 25-year-old, and the 36-year-old responding to...
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I Am Not Your Female-In-Character Assistant
Last night, as a friend and I sat greeting people coming to an event we were helping organize at the United Way building (where any nonprofit can rent a room for a function), a man approached. White,...
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Oh Beto, Don’t Take Your Love to Town. Or Iowa.
He should run for President! He’s in Iowa! There he is at the airport with Ted Cruz! Maybe he can go solve things in Syria or North Korea! Hang on. Just chill, everyone else. Hands off. Beto, we need...
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Many times over the years, I have operated as a legal observer at protests. These days, this often means being a person documenting events on video. Legal observers in theory should be treated...
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