The Rangers came within one strike of winning the World Series during the ninth and tenth innings.

Unfortunately, Game 6 had 11 innings. 

Need coffee. Really need coffee. Don't try to sell if the mark needs coffee. 

The iPhone smacked me on the forehead.  It wasn't the first time. 

It was one of those overscheduled days when at exactly 1:16 PM, the car wouldn't start.  Thus began the unraveling of a high-tech ruse that almost cost me. 

After Closing Time At Fat Ho. Photo by Karnegie Musa. Copyright 2011.

The power of a name is strange. Inexplicable. Mysterious.

We’ve seen a shift in emphasis on science in Texas schools. 

 Unfortunately, it's a shift from science to dogma.  

A Japanese house swept to see by Tsunami. Photo by US Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord

To turn human horror into statistics and data is heartless, a psychological defense, and a pragmatic response.  

If you have a diesel turbine engine, can you leave off the muffler and run about without fear of tickets for excessive noise?  Owners say yes. The Palo Pinto County Attorney says no.  The Texas attorney general will now mull this sound

Look into the crystal ball, dig your hand deep into the bull’s entrails, watch the tea leaves swirl on the bottom of the cup.  

Sometimes the law frees us with its safety net, sometimes the law traps us within its mesh,  sometimes the law falls away like broken string and doesn’t matter.

There more than a half million frozen human embryos in this country.

Are they people, property or something else?

You can only have two roosters in a Fort Worth residential area.

There are three Texas cities and communities with China in their name:  China Springs, China Grove and China, Texas.  In the era when China was a mystery, these were among the main Texas references to that ancient land. 

Back in the print era, Laura Lippman worked as a reporter for the Waco Tribune-Herald and then for the San Antonio Light.   I’ll always remember her story on a Rocky Horror Picture Show audience participation midnight showing.

Nolan Ryan at Vitek's. Source: Vitek's on Facebook.

Vitek’s BBQ, a well known barbecue establishment founded in 1915 in Waco, posted a photo of Nolan Ryan today on Facebook under its FB name of GutPak.

The mute button and the volume buttons on my iPhone fell off.  If you’re like most business people with smart phones, you live on your cell.  Any quirk impacts you immediately and annoys you.

115 voicemails.

74 minutes.

Remember the Super Conducting Super Collider?

Its official name was the Ronald Reagan Center for High Energy Physics. 

1790 Census showing Lafford French.

You try to count for something. You try to be counted.

We didn’t get a U.S. Census packet.  My wife called the agency. She heard a recording to call back after a certain date.

Pennies are the definition of ubiquitous.