Author: outlanddish

  I ruminate periodically on what the Democrats (because there really are only two viable parties in the US)need.  My latest brainstorm is that we need to be on the lookout for another Barbara Jordon.  As I was...

Today I was tortured by a government agency.  I had to renew my Texas driver’s license and couldn’t do it online or by mail because it had been twenty years since I had had a new photo.I suggested to my sister...

Fifteen year old Michelle Wie is playing the John Deere Classic on the PGA Tour this week.  She shot one under for the first round. Today, she opened with a birdie on the tenth, made par on the 11th, and chipped in for...

In the Sunday Dallas Morning News, not known as a bastion of liberal thinking, there is a full page devoted to the commencement address Barack Obama gave at Knox College. Accompanying it is an article by David Kusnet which was...

Well, here I sit in Texas visiting family, and in India there are dramatic happenings.  The head of the BJP, the Hindu Nationalist Party, has resigned. It seems that he made a visit to Pakistan and said that Jinnah was a...