With the number of Corona virus cases growing, I reluctantly ran a couple of errands in Victoria Monday morning, one to my doctorās office for medical supplies and the other to the pharmacy for medications. At the doctorās office, two of the five people I encountered in the lobby were withou… Read more

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I am a retired journalist (do we ever really retire?) who likes to comment on a wide range of topics and throw shade on both sides of the aisle. I am an avowed progressive with a sharp tongue. I donāt mind if I make you angry as long as I make you think.
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The Corona virus crisis has revealed a disturbing and troubling contradiction in our āAmericanism.ā Read more
A few days ago, Medium.com posted an article entitled, āUnmasking the Truth: CDC and Hospital Administrators Are Endangering Us All.ā Read more
Itās Sunday afternoon in a medium-sized town in anywhere USA. Sam Salez Man kisses his wife and kids before driving to the airport. He parks, checks in and takes a commuter airline flight to the near-by hub. Four hours later, he has flown to his prospectās city, checked in to his high-end ho… Read more
This blog represents the views of the author alone and not the newspaper. Read more
I have made no secret about my disdain ā no, hatred ā of Greg Abbott. I have seen enough evidence that he isnāt a Republican; he is a far-right libertarian who would eliminate almost all government. Read more
While the Corona virus and Covid-19 consume most of the news, I hope one other issue in Victoria doesnāt get pushed aside and forgotten ā and that is the Victoria ISDās replacement of an after-school program and a contract extension for the superintendent. Read more
Does profanity get you attention or ignored? Maybe. Read more
This blog represents the views of the author alone and not the newspaper. Read more
I am making my return to the Victoria blogosphere short. Read more
Editor's note: We have removed the editorial cartoon that accompanied this blog post because our ethics board felt that it violated our community submissions policy and is likely a copyright violation. We appreciate the bloggerās understanding of our concern and review Read more
Last night, The Washington Postās Rachael Bade looked at the standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the progressive Democrats over impeaching Donald Trump. Bade pointed out that the momentum for impeachment has stalled out because Pelosi quashed it and that members of her caucus are… Read more
The American legal profession has a huge problem ā it fails address that the most corrupted of its flock remain licensed and can label themselves ālawyerā and/or āattorney.ā Read more
If I had any doubts about posting an open letter to Greg Abbott, his tweet this morning erased those doubts. He posted something that is, essentially, saying Texas isn't part of the United States. It borders on treason. Here's what he tweeted, "Texas tells Nancy Pelosi & her Congressiona… Read more
Two posts on Facebook summarized the war on women and children by the misogynistic Republicans who seem to have overrun southern politics ā again. Read more
An open letter to Michael Cloud Read more
The Republicans have pivoted to health care as a way to energize its ignorant base. The GOP cult leader, Donald Trump, named Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to be the point person on this effort that is to occur after the 2020 election. Read more
Those of us old enough remember the Watergate Hearings in the 1970s and the famous words about Richard Nixon from Sen. Howard Baker, āWhat did the President know and when did he know it?ā Read more
The nightmarish potential of COVID19 to decimate our nation as it is doing in China and Japan canāt be underestimated. There is no āover-reactionā in this case because over-reacting doesnāt do much harm as would under-reaction. If youāve ever taken a statistics course, you know about Type I … Read more
One would have to be far off the grid to be unaware of the despicable behavior of students of the all-male Covington Catholic High School at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington on Friday. A video gone viral showed teenage boys, later identified as students of the school in Kentucky, w… Read more
Folks, if you want an example of how dangerous Rep. Michael Cloud and his staff are, look no further than his correspondence. The newly elected member of Congress, ostensibly representing all of his constituents, has for the second time, sent me a letter thanking me for taking a position tha… Read more
Sunday evening, I got an e-blast from Michael Cloud. I know many of the Advocateās readers support him. I donāt and what I wrote him explains, in part, why: Read more
I joined AARP some 23 years ago, when it was still the American Association of Retired Persons. And I spent about 15 those years believing, through blind faith and my motel discounts, that the organization represented my interests and the interests of others above age 50. Read more
Words have meaning and leadership influences followers. Just like the head of a company who sets up the corporate culture, so too does a political leader for his or her followers and for the entire constituency. Read more
The news about the upcoming election is getting worse ā and I am not surprised. Read more
A woman who I deeply respect as a dear friend and journalism colleague has chastised me for labeling as enemies Trump and those supporting Brett Kavanaughās confirmation to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. Her rebuke ā as mild and as kind as it was ā forced me to think about why Iā… Read more
My long time followers dating back to my days running my own investigative weekly newspaper in Amarillo know not only that I predicted what weāre seeing with the Trump āpresidencyā and the Republican-controlled Congress. In short, my views of the Republican Party evolved from seeing it as an… Read more
The Texas State Board of Education has, once again, made a mockery of itself by when it cast preliminary votes to eliminate the contributions to our nation by Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton. The claim was these changes were to "streamline" the curricula. That, of course, is bogus ā an inst… Read more
The New York Times has dropped an unprecedented bomb on the United States public with its publication of an anonymous Op-Ed piece attributed to a senior official in the Trump administration. The rationale for the anonymity is to protect the officialās position in the administration while inf… Read more
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