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It May Not Be Terrorism But it Sure is Criminal

April 29, 2013by lbwoodgate 16 Comments

What attention the explosion at the West, Texas fertilizer company has been getting from most of the main stream media has been to cover the lives of the first responders […]

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Texas/Local stories

Sunny Thoughts

April 26, 2013by lbwoodgate 22 Comments

A change of pace for me.  Yesterday was a good day and it was aided tremendously with the near-perfect climate conditions here in my hometown of Denton, Texas.  A climate […]

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Our crazy and wonderful world

The Boston Marathon Tragedy and the Media Meatheads

April 24, 2013by lbwoodgate 20 Comments

Is it just me or does the media reporting of recent tragic events like the Boston Marathon and the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion make others ill watching supposedly intelligent […]

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Journalism/Media

What the Senate’s Failure to Pass a Sane Gun Control Bill Was Really All About

April 22, 2013by lbwoodgate 10 Comments

Who brought you to the dance? In her NY Times piece, Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer in Washington and a director of the NRA spent very little time and space providing sound […]

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Gun Control, Society and Politics

Friday Humor

April 19, 2013by lbwoodgate 15 Comments

To give everyone a break from my tirades on “stupid” in my home state of Texas I thought I would demonstrate that “stupid” is not limited to just one state. […]

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Humor

Why Can’t Texas Cash in on the Marijuana Bonanza?

April 18, 2013by lbwoodgate 7 Comments

I rail against my native state Texas for the wellspring of stupid politicians we have been seeing over the last few years but the state does have some economic benefits […]

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Economy, Social Discourse, Texas/Local stories

What is it About Texas Politicians Who Have No Shame?

April 16, 2013by lbwoodgate 10 Comments

Texas used to have a healthy mystique about it that was often the envy of other states and far away places like Lithuania.  That’s been lost for future generations now […]

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Gun Control, Texas/Local stories

Why Texas is Winning the Race to the Bottom

April 14, 2013by lbwoodgate 12 Comments

Extremism of any stripe is always profoundly ignorant and detached from reality.  Feeling passionate about an issue always needs to be accompanied with arguments that people can identify with and […]

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Texas/Local stories

Really Senator McConnell! You’re Angry about YOUR Privacy Rights Being Violated?

April 11, 2013by lbwoodgate 10 Comments

  It appears that the campaign of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is highly upset that someone allegedly violated their privacy rights.  This reaction followed the publicly released audio of […]

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Society and Politics

How’d We Get to This Point?

April 10, 2013by lbwoodgate 8 Comments

In a flight of fancy from time to time I found myself imagining how things really may have evolved as opposed to the traditions we were raised to believe. It […]

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