Finally

The Chronicle calls it for Jo Jones.  She’s still the only one whose name is second but won.

I’ll jump in

Tonight I am mostly happy.  Parker’s got the gem.  Could she be the gem for the speech in 2012?  This is one instance that i think i can look forward.

The answer is yes.

Bob Stein

He’s on KHOU tonight.  Remember he ran over a great generation person and knocked out her teeth.

Bob Lanier at Gene Locke’s Party

At least KHOU in Houston they showed the lineage trying to come back.  They also gave a lot of time to Hill.  He said the right thing.

After Bill White broke that iron arm, Parker has kept it strong.  Locke may be a good person, but hitching up to Lanier was the wrong thing to do.  Look at Jolanda’s race.  Look at Ron Green’s race.  Green and Parker showed up together on PBS.

Locke gives up on teevee.

I still can’t get over the conservatives getting caught on their heels this election.  They had no one to choose from.

Step by step

ZOMG.

One step closer to rational health care we are.

I admire Nancy Pelosi more than ever.

Bite that Harry Reid.

step by step

 

I Never Published My Denver Pics

No word yet on whether or not my colleague and I will get to go to the next professional gathering (in BOSTON!!!!), but I remembered that I never posted my Denver pics.

I love this blue bear.  This is from before the blizzard.

I never passed off my camera to take pics of myself.

Denver’s Contemporary Arts Museum.

No photoshop here.  It’s just some government building looking cool in the snow.

Not this guy.

I liked Denver a lot and hope I get to go to Boston!

Cory Crow: A Profile

I’m almost at tears, so bear with me.

There is this blogger.  He’s here in Texas, and his dreams of living off of blogging is a sad story.  It seems not enough people care about his blogging.

Sad.

He likes dogs, especially rescue dogs.  But screw BARC.

And what else . . . let’s see.   Not much.

How can I get this on twatter?

Hello what?  Cory Crow supports a blogger (so old fashioned) who published someone’s work info.  YaY!

Thanks for playing Cory.

You are a WINNER! (Dubya told me so.  And do you still like babies?  We want to know,)

A Loss for Houston

John O’Quinn died today in a car accident.  He was a legendary attorney, a generous supporter of the University of Houston, and a bit of a fast player.

O’Quinn saved my job once — in a way.  Back in the ’80s, I worked as a paralegal to put myself through school.  The attorney I worked for was a total slimebag (he was eventually disbarred).  At one point, my boss needed money (he had a lot of kids) and he sold some cases to O’Quinn, along with a law clerk, a paralegal (me), and a file clerk.  At that point, at least my paychecks didn’t bounce.  (While I feel for some who had it hard in the ’80s in Houston, I have special place in my heart for people who got worthless paychecks.  There were a number of us.  People who actually got paid for their work were lucky.)

O’Quinn went on to fund the Alumni Center at UH and have some trouble with jury tampering.

In my gut, I think this tragedy is sad for those who knew or were related to him.  As for me, not so much.  I didn’t like being sold off to the highest bidder.

As another attorney boss of mine said, “rock stars and attorneys die spectacularly.”

Yet another reason for not going to law school.

You’ve got to be kidding me

Local CBS news just reported that “some political analists” say that by backing Gov. Rick Perry, she indicating that she may run in 2012 with Perry as her V.P.

Please god, let them be right.  I would enjoy the hell out of that.  It’s something to look forward to.

Right after that they had a report about voter fraud.  Not voter registration fraud, but voter fraud — the boogy man of Texas Republicans.  I had heard the teaser for the story earlier and thought, hmmm, has the Harris County DA finally found a case of actual voter fraud after all these years?

Why yes he has.  It seems a man used his dad’s name to vote.  They have the same name (except for III at the end).  Unfortunately, the man’s father is dead and the guy never registered, so there was one too many votes in the 2008 primary elections.  The man plead guilty and is repaying his debt to society.

So, we’ve had a case of voter fraud, let’s pass voter ID legislation!!!!!!  Oh, that’s right.  The part time Texas legislature is out of session (which is by design).  I expect this case will be brought up again and again when they are back in session, trying to force people to jump through useless hoops simply to exercise their basic right to vote.

Ah, yes.  While I was poking around the KHOU site, I found this little report.  It’s typical: sow confusion and then force voters away without voting.  With all of the talk about requiring a picture ID, I wouldn’t be surprised if many thought that was actually the law.  The county clerk’s office (Republican) doesn’t think anyone was turned away, so that makes it all ok then, right?

Webinar Weirdness

Today I “participated” in a webinar.  It consists of listening to someone speaking over the phone and looking at a powerpoint presentation on you pc.

I’ve experienced one other and this one was less than stellar.

Its advertised content wasn’t quite what my boss had expected and I didn’t learn anything I haven’t (or couldn’t have) found out for myself, except that people tend to click on ads that have a picture of a cute young girl smiling.  Surprise surprise.  (Read that in a Gomer Pile voice.)

Participants get all of the material in advance and the audio part doesn’t add much to it, so I don’t understand why it costs so much.  I will probably turn it down if my boss offers me a webinar from the same company again.

And given how much I hate talking on the phone, it was weird hanging on for an hour listening to some person read what was on my computer screen to me.