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Texas has made it official. “Equal protection under the law” is out the window.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve got no problem with whacking on drunk drivers a bit, frankly I think we ought to just have a “drunk driver season” and issue bazookas…
What I have a problem with is official state policy and precedent now [...]

Dallas is one of the nation’s most dangerous cities. Property crime, assault, rape, homicide…all of these are very high compared to other cities. Triple, in fact, over the national average.
Those of us that live here know the reasons. Incompetent city government, corrupt cops (the joke is that we could drop the crime rate by 10% [...]

Every wonder what 30,000 cubic feet of water per second looks like? Rode up to take a look at the Lake Texoma spillway today. What can I say? It was a gorgeous day for riding! (besides, the Texas VRCC, 30 other bikes or so, a whole bunch of good friends, and fried catfish was involved!)

I heard some really odd noises when the garage door was going down yesterday. Turned out the one of the lift cables that travels from the torsion spring to the bottom of the door to help lift it was fraying.
The little “pops”, “pings”, and “sproings” were because the frayed pieces were catching on the rest [...]

This morning’s commute was more exciting than most. Oh, there’s always some bonehead that’s too distracted, under the unfluence, or too sleepy to bother to actually drive the car they’re in, but today was worse than normal.

I was quite surprised to receive more than a few emails

Somebody tried to kill me…yet again.
There are several catagories of dangerous cage (motorcyclists’ slang for a car or truck) drivers on the roads today.
First, you have the stupid ones.

Y’all (that’s a technical term) may have gathered from my writings that I can be kind of rough on cell phones.
My current phone has fallen off a cliff into a lake (in the pocket of my heavy leather jacket while I was wearing it of course), slid 50+ feet down a concrete bankment (fortunately it [...]

Regardless of how you or I feel about the drug war, the thing that is not debatable is that the drugs are out there. With the current price, regulations, and taxes on cigarettes, the handmade kind of the five-leaved variety are actually competetive in price.
Interesting, that. Scary too, considering the sheer effort, Constitutional dilution, and cash [...]

One of the more unpleasant tasks I’ve had lately is to try to expain our workflows, design, and procedures to the IBM smucks that for some reason think they know how to run a newspaper. It’s scary really. They ask questions, and if your answer doesn’t fit into one of the 2 or 3 predefined [...]