Category Archives: Other punditry

If you tuned in to Houston Have Your Say last night expecting to see me on the TV, you would have been either annoyed or relieved to learn that I was on the sidelines with a laptop, liveblogging it instead. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m at the KUHT studio for Houston Have Your Say along with Ree-C Murphy and Mizanur Rahman from the Chron. We will not actually be on camera – we’re off on the side at the “bloggers table”, which suits us … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Apparently, my initial foray on KUHT wasn’t enough to scare them off, so I’ll be back on Channel 8 this Thursday at 7 PM as part of a live broadcast called Houston Have Your Say: The first show will take … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have often said that I have a face for radio and a voice for blogging. Tonight you will have the chance to judge that for yourself, as I make my debut appearance on The Connection: Red, White, and Blue. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So the February issue of Texas Monthly is on the newsstands, and they’ve got a feature story called 35 People Who Will Shape Our Future, one of whom is their cover boy, Lance Armstrong. And one of whom, amazingly enough, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Interesting op-ed from the weekend by Barbara Radnofsky. Now, in many urban high schools and particularly in Houston, policy debate is gone. Private and suburban public high schools are still actively involved in debate, but predominantly low-income minority students lack … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, I never thought I’d see a day where it would be necessary for Pete to come to the defense of Mister Rogers, but that day has apparently come. And just in time, it seems. Check it out. Continue reading →

Damn shame. Fort Bend Now is a terrific publication, a go-to source for all things CD22, and a unique resource for local news junkies. Plus, Bob Dunn is a peach of a guy. Nonetheless, as another old dad (though not … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I confess to being somewhat ambivalent about Stace’s call to action regarding the comic strip La Cucaracha, which has disappeared from the dead-tree edition of the Chron, though it’s still online. It was never a regular read for me, though … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Horrors! Publisher American Media Inc. said on Tuesday it will stop printing the Weekly World News, which for 28 years gleefully chronicled the exploits of alien babies, animal-human hybrids and dead celebrities. The company said in a brief statement it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, what did you expect? Filling in for conservative talk-show host Michael Berry Tuesday morning, Houston lawyer Geoff Berg was direct with KPRC radio’s listeners. “I am a moderate,” he announced. “Michael is a right-wing fanatic. We are going to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Looks like the Chron is going to need another DC-based columnist. FishbowlDC has learned that Houston Chronicle Washington columnist (and former Houston Chronicle D.C. Bureau Chief) Cragg Hines is retiring after 35 years with the paper. A Gridiron fixture, Hines … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Eye on Williamson comes the news that Mary Beth Harrell, who ran against Rep. John Carter in CD31 last year, has a new gig: KNCT-TV, the local public broadcasting station located on the campus of Central Texas College, recently … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Who said this? “When Paris Hilton was going to jail last week, more people knew about that than knew that we were sending people into space that day. It has replaced what is real news. There was always a place … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There really are days when I feel like I’ve seen it all. Believe it or not, there actually does exist a magazine called Blogger & Podcaster. And yes, the tagline is: “For Aspiring New Media Titans.” And yes, you won’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have three things to say about this story regarding Houston’s freeway bloggers. 1. How you can write such a story while never mentioning the original Freeway Blogger is beside me. (His blog site is now here.) I mean, FreewayBlogger.com … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I don’t often do a post that just says “What he said”, but every once in a while circumstances dictate it. So, without further ado: What he said. That is all. (Thanks to Greg for the pointer.) UPDATE: Jack Cafferty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s ABC13’s Miya Shay versus KTRH talker Chris Baker in a storm coverage smackdown! Place your bets, place your bets… Continue reading →

I received an email last week from Charlotte Aguilar of the Examiner telling me that former CD07 candidate Jim Henley will be filling in as a guest columnist while Molly Ivins takes a sabbatical. His first effort is here, on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ll be on the radio tonight, proving once again that I’ve got a voice for blogging, as a guest on Agonist Radio out of San Antonio. Tonight’s lineup is here, which puts me on the air at about 9 PM. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lots of stuff I’ve been meaning to link to lately. Indulge me here for a minute while I link around. Vince gets in the candidate interview game with Q&As featuring Sherrie Matula and Kathi Thomas. Speaking of Matula, her opponent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The PerryVsWorld blog has part one of an interview with former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes up, and it’s some interesting reading. So far, they’ve mostly covered redistricting and redistricting reform. I hope the question of Carole Keeton Strayhorn comes up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When I read that the Washington Post’s new Republican activist blogger was once a speechwriter for Sen. John Cornyn, I wondered if he had a hand in some of the more, er, colorful things that our junior senator has said … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Things which are supposedly imminent, on the grand scale of things: The release of the city’s report on the Carol Alvarado payroll-padding scandal, according to the H-Chron. The release of Guns-and-Roses long-awaited (nine years!) album Chinese Democracy (pardon me, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My friend Ellen sent me a link to this WSJ article about quantifying political prognostication. As 2006 approached, pundits performed the annual rite of making predictions for the year ahead. Scripps Howard’s prognosticator expects the withdrawal of U.S. troops from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I will be a guest on Sean-Paul “The Agonist” Kelly’s radio show tonight from 7:30 to 8:00 PM. The broadcast is on San Antonio’s KTSA, which is 550 on the AM dial, or you can click the link and listen … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sean-Paul Kelly will be guest-hosting the Jack Riccardi show on 550 KTSA Talk Radio from 7-10 pm in San Antonio tonight. Here’s the lineup: 7-730 Intro segment, introduce the night’s guests, main topic etc . . . 730-800 Comedienne Margaret … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If only I had such sway over the Chronicle’s editorial page! Thanks for the egoboo and all, but I’ve never even gotten them to print one of my letters to the editor. Believe me, if they were taking orders from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wonder what Berkeley Breathed had on his mind while doing those Opus-in-jail-for-protecting-his-source comics? Find out in this brief interview. Via The Stakeholder. Continue reading →

Following up on Julia Sisyphus’s post, a new poll shows patriotism remains near an all-time high in America: Whether or not “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” as the British writer Samuel Johnson observed more than 200 years … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve never really been down there before tonight; a friend of mine decided he wanted a picnic for his birthday. I highly recommend doing that. In the winter, when it’s not so derned hot. Good times. Especially the “playing chicken … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I knew I’d have to go easy on making jokes at Arianna Huffington’s expense once she signed up some quality like Harry Shearer. But not being content to merely lure one of my own faves, Andrei Cherny, out of a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Houston Democratic Forum meeting that I attended last night turned out to be a standing room only affair, as almost 70 people packed into the reserved room at Ziggy’s Grill on Alabama to hear Dr. Richard Murray and Keir … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Greg Wythe gets to burn a few minutes off of his fame clock tonight as he appears on “Texas Politics-The Real Deal”, a talk show hosted by liberal Democrat attorney David Jones and former Harris County GOP chair Gary Polland. … Continue reading → Continue reading →