Comments on: One of my frequent apologies on behalf of my fellow Texans http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:06:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: mds http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437954 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:59:24 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437954 <blockquote>MY HERO!!!!! Cried like a baby when he was replaced with that boring wimp, Chuck Offenberger and his damn saddle shoes.</blockquote> *Sniff* I still remember the brave column Kaul wrote about his doctor suggesting that participating in that year's RAGBRAI might not be a good idea: &lt;paraphrase&gt;"Bah! I am not like a fly, who lives on the surface of life! I am <em>El Bicycliste</em>!"&lt;/paraphrase&gt; Well, <em>I</em> thought it was funny. And not in the way that Texas is. (See? Still on-topic.)

MY HERO!!!!! Cried like a baby when he was replaced with that boring wimp, Chuck Offenberger and his damn saddle shoes.

*Sniff* I still remember the brave column Kaul wrote about his doctor suggesting that participating in that year’s RAGBRAI might not be a good idea: <paraphrase>”Bah! I am not like a fly, who lives on the surface of life! I am El Bicycliste!”</paraphrase>

Well, I thought it was funny. And not in the way that Texas is. (See? Still on-topic.)

]]> by: kac90b http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437781 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:58:30 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437781 <i>Two words for you whippersnappers: “Donald Kaul”.</i> MY HERO!!!!! Cried like a baby when he was replaced with that boring wimp, Chuck Offenberger and his damn saddle shoes. Two words for you whippersnappers: “Donald Kaul”.

MY HERO!!!!! Cried like a baby when he was replaced with that boring wimp, Chuck Offenberger and his damn saddle shoes.

]]> by: bernarda http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437748 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:40:37 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437748 Blame it on air-conditioning. If it weren't for that, not very many people would have emigrated to Texas and the South in general, and many people would have left. How many would put up with the hot weather in Texas and the hot and humid weather in the rest of the South? Air-conditioning not only pollutes the atmosphere, but also the political atmosphere. Blame it on air-conditioning. If it weren’t for that, not very many people would have emigrated to Texas and the South in general, and many people would have left.

How many would put up with the hot weather in Texas and the hot and humid weather in the rest of the South?

Air-conditioning not only pollutes the atmosphere, but also the political atmosphere.

]]> by: roger http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437690 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:09:46 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437690 The trouble with Texas, as with many Southern states, is that the constitution and the system of state government set up in the revanchist post reconstruction period is still in operation, even after the civil rights era. In Texas, this means a weak legislature consisting of people who can take a huge pay cut every two years to meet in Austin - which of course is an incentive to people being legally bribed by lobbyists with various jobs and connections, and people who have little qualification at all being elected to a legislature that makes so little of an impression on the electorate that few bother to vote at all. Plus you have the problem of a one party state - with the liberals in the state stubbornly refusing to recognize that, strategically, their real best chance is to become Republican and turn it from the party of right wing nuts to a party in which there is a viable and moderate side. When Texas was a all dem state, in the New Deal days and afterwards, conservatives didn't migrate at the time to the Republican party, but fought like hell to retain the Democratic party. That this is obviously what liberals should do in Texas - or at least in those parts where running as a democrat is simple electoral suicide, not Austin - is never done. Too bad. On the statewide level, we'd have more voice in the crafting of legislation. As for Texas' national representatives, if the ex-mayor of Dallas had run as a Republican against Coryn in the last primary (and his views were pretty much moderate Republican) instead of Democrat, he'd have had a chance, save the racial bigotry vote. The trouble with Texas, as with many Southern states, is that the constitution and the system of state government set up in the revanchist post reconstruction period is still in operation, even after the civil rights era. In Texas, this means a weak legislature consisting of people who can take a huge pay cut every two years to meet in Austin - which of course is an incentive to people being legally bribed by lobbyists with various jobs and connections, and people who have little qualification at all being elected to a legislature that makes so little of an impression on the electorate that few bother to vote at all. Plus you have the problem of a one party state - with the liberals in the state stubbornly refusing to recognize that, strategically, their real best chance is to become Republican and turn it from the party of right wing nuts to a party in which there is a viable and moderate side. When Texas was a all dem state, in the New Deal days and afterwards, conservatives didn’t migrate at the time to the Republican party, but fought like hell to retain the Democratic party. That this is obviously what liberals should do in Texas - or at least in those parts where running as a democrat is simple electoral suicide, not Austin - is never done. Too bad. On the statewide level, we’d have more voice in the crafting of legislation. As for Texas’ national representatives, if the ex-mayor of Dallas had run as a Republican against Coryn in the last primary (and his views were pretty much moderate Republican) instead of Democrat, he’d have had a chance, save the racial bigotry vote.

]]> by: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437688 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:08:57 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437688 <blockquote>MAJeff, I may have missed a correction downthread, but the Minnesota State Fair, with its amazing variety of foods on sticks, is in St. Paul, not Minneapolis.</blockquote> Yes, but I'm not sure St. Paulites know there's more to vegetarian cuisinne than iceberg lettuce salad, either.

MAJeff, I may have missed a correction downthread, but the Minnesota State Fair, with its amazing variety of foods on sticks, is in St. Paul, not Minneapolis.

Yes, but I’m not sure St. Paulites know there’s more to vegetarian cuisinne than iceberg lettuce salad, either.

]]> by: Indy http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437625 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:30:00 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437625 Well, here in SE Tennessee / north georgia, we just had a 19-yr old girl at the local Independant Baptist fundie academy go into hiding (the cops are looking for her) after somebody found the dead baby in her dorm room. Acording to the medical examiner, it suffocated in amniotic fluid a few min. after birth. The school charter will have you kicked out for pre-marital intercourse or sexual contact of any form, and especially for obtaining an abortion or assisting anyone in obtaining such. The school spokesman stated that although she is no longer a member of the comunity, the school continues to "pray for her and her family". //Gee, thanks, guys.// Naturally, no mention is made of the father, who is most likely well on the way to a successful career as a baptist minister or family councelor. Well, here in SE Tennessee / north georgia, we just had a 19-yr old girl at the local Independant Baptist fundie academy go into hiding (the cops are looking for her) after somebody found the dead baby in her dorm room. Acording to the medical examiner, it suffocated in amniotic fluid a few min. after birth.

The school charter will have you kicked out for pre-marital intercourse or sexual contact of any form, and especially for obtaining an abortion or assisting anyone in obtaining such.

The school spokesman stated that although she is no longer a member of the comunity, the school continues to “pray for her and her family”.

//Gee, thanks, guys.//

Naturally, no mention is made of the father, who is most likely well on the way to a successful career as a baptist minister or family councelor.

]]> by: Karla http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437597 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:57:57 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437597 MAJeff, I may have missed a correction downthread, but the Minnesota State Fair, with its amazing variety of foods on sticks, is in St. Paul, not Minneapolis. At least you didn't attribute the Winter Carnival and its ice palaces to Minneapolis. Those would be fighting words. MAJeff, I may have missed a correction downthread, but the Minnesota State Fair, with its amazing variety of foods on sticks, is in St. Paul, not Minneapolis.

At least you didn’t attribute the Winter Carnival and its ice palaces to Minneapolis. Those would be fighting words.

]]> by: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437571 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:44:06 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437571 One last Iowa thing for a while (then off to teach a class). I mentioned on an earlier thread that I use the MST3K short that's an Iowa State College of Home Economics recruiting film from the 1940s in my Gender class. One of my students saw it, and came up to me after class: "My parents met at Iowa State." She's been nagging them about it for two years, so this year they had something going on in the Twin Cities, and they decided to go to Ames for a couple days just to get her to shut up about it :) One last Iowa thing for a while (then off to teach a class). I mentioned on an earlier thread that I use the MST3K short that’s an Iowa State College of Home Economics recruiting film from the 1940s in my Gender class. One of my students saw it, and came up to me after class: “My parents met at Iowa State.” She’s been nagging them about it for two years, so this year they had something going on in the Twin Cities, and they decided to go to Ames for a couple days just to get her to shut up about it :)

]]> by: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437569 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:41:22 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437569 <blockquote>Two words for you whippersnappers: “Donald Kaul”.</blockquote> Dugan's Deli, motherfucker!

Two words for you whippersnappers: “Donald Kaul”.

Dugan’s Deli, motherfucker!

]]> by: MAJeff, the God of Biscuits http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437567 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:36:04 +0100 http://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/07/30/one-of-my-frequent-apologies-on-behalf-of-my-fellow-texans/#comment-437567 <blockquote>I was at ISU ‘90-95, and Friley ‘92-95. Whoa, I was in grad school there* ‘91-’94! </blockquote> OK, Ames, 1987-1994. Friley 1992-3 (both as RA): Godfrey (92-93) and Niles-Foster (Spr 92).

I was at ISU ‘90-95, and Friley ‘92-95.

Whoa, I was in grad school there* ‘91-’94!

OK, Ames, 1987-1994. Friley 1992-3 (both as RA): Godfrey (92-93) and Niles-Foster (Spr 92).

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