This isn't her first filibuster rodeo, mind you - she did the same back a couple years ago to prevent $5bil in cuts to Texas Education. Since losing Ann, I've been in a funk, but she is reminding me so much of Ann that I'm literally crying with happiness for the fact that another strong, vociferous woman is willing…
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I always assumed that Uncle Ruckus was loosely based on him.
Yeah, my friends moved up to Chicago and said traffic laws there are merely a loose suggestion, but everyone understands this and doesn't tend to get their panties in a twist when someone does something possibly nutty in front of you.
'Bout. Goddamn. Time. When he was on, yes, he was great, but there was no middle ground, no consistency. He was either hot or terribly, TERRIBLY cold (especially after piling up runners on base with the aforementioned walks), and I've been yelling at him on my tv/computer screen for years now. Good riddance.
But hey! They finally DFA'd Marmol today! Maybe we can end the season not in the NL Central basement!
Yeah, I've told my friends who live in Wicker Park that if it ever looks like the Cubs will finally win (and if they haven't found a job & moved elsewhere in the country), I'm absolutely visiting & staying with them just so I can be there when it happens (because Texas is too far away for a decent celebration). I just…
Amen! I've been saying it ever since I heard it as a child, so yup, I'm not changing 25+ years of behavior because one commenter deems it "over".
Yeah, I was watching it live and thinking "Oh, so that's what those final 30 seconds would have been like if I didn't have stakes in one of the teams."
Is there any way we can convince the Blackhawks to start playing for the Cubs now? I mean, someone has to let that team know that postseasons and championships aren't just bedtime stories...
Ah, I didn't know I was hate-filled, misogynistic, and uneducated, and I could have sworn that the non-Republicans I was voting for specifically mentioned their stance as pro-choice. I'm such a dum-dum!! Guess I gotta go turn in my Feminist Card...
I would love more crazy Rick stories. Living as long as I have in Austin, I've heard a few juicy ones in my time, but fresh goodness is always nice. On another note, why don't we have a runoff system in this state? A couple of elections back, he "won" with a little over 30% of the vote and I was soooo damn mad!
Agreed. My district goes from where I live in North Austin all the way through a huge swath of good ol' boy country & down to the western suburbs of Houston. And, thanks to that, I have an asshat Republican that I keep getting rage-inducing mailers from - I'm positive that jackass voted for this.
My boyfriend (native Corpus Christian - Molina to be exact), never experienced any direct racism until he moved to Beaumont his sophomore year of high school, and even then, it was (unfortunately) a crotchety old teacher who kept lowballing his grades & hovering obverse him and any other Hispanic students during tests…
Only if you're going by "which states were part of the Confederacy" - otherwise, it's too huge & varied to be labeled as a part of just one distinct region.
I heard my father use the word once when I was 5 years old (we lived in Memphis at the time, in the mid-'80s, and almost all of my classmates and friends were black), and I WENT OFF on him like a 5-year-old almost never would. Tore him a new asshole, despite my usual demeanor of loving adorable little daughter - how…
As a Cubs fan in a long-term relationship with an Astros fan, truer words have never been said.
I have a 101-degree fever & a sore throat that's so raw no losenge will sooth it, but I drove my sick ass an hour+ down I-35 from Austin to show my love to them as their plane came in - and the street outside the airport was packed with cheering Spurs fans. It blows that they didn't get this one, but you can't win 'em…
It makes me wish my Fiesta wasn't stock and only FWD. And that I had talent.