There was a lot of stuff to unpack in Thursday's D-G article about the Secretary of State's use of state cars. The biggest thing, however, was the misleading (at best) nature of Alice Stewart's comments and explanations.
So, with the exception of he...
Maybe I shouldn't at this point, but I continue to find it absolutely hilarious how many Republicans on Twitter will lose their collective mind at the drop of hat without thinking through an entire issue.1
The Senate prevents a tax cut from passin...
In this post, I wrote that there were three explanations for the apparent discrepancies between what Alice Stewart told me about state-car logs and what she told Jason Tolbert.
First, it’s entirely possible that there are no logs, and Stewar...
I love the word "logomachy," primarily because it sounds cool when you say it, but, also, because it amuses me to think that there's a word for a battle over words. (I am similarly entertained by "lethologica," which is a word used to describe the i...
our own Jeff Woodmansee, who received his Master's Degree in Library and Information Science yesterday from the University of North Texas. With two daughters, ages 1 and 2, and a full-time job, getting his degree was certainly no picnic, but he got ...
Wednesday night, as I was writing the two posts that went up yesterday, I sort of assumed that the gap between the first post and the second post would be filled with a deafening silence from the Secretary of State's Office. I mean, there wasn't a wh...
I'm not exactly breaking new sociological ground when I say that we humans are creatures of habit. We do the same things, at roughly the same time, on a roughly regular basis. You might not be able to set your watch to any certain behavior, but, on a...
The rumor, according to a current employee of the Secretary of State's Office (who, for obvious reasons, wishes to remain anonymous), was that the office had purchased the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid due to its above average gas mileage, which Secret...
Last Friday night, Jeff and I, along with our respective better halves, attended Craws For A Cause at Dickey-Stephens Park. Thanks to a gracious host --- Mays & White, PLLC --- we were fortunate enough to be in the VIP section, where (as Kat Rob...
As noted here and elsewhere, the House recently adopted a policy banning the use of footage from the House video feed for "any political, partisan, campaign or commercial purpose." The policy also explained that "'Commercial purpose' in the cont...