By Texas law, a parent is allowed to purchase an alcoholic beverage for his/her minor child at a restaurant, provided that parent remains at the table with the drink.  This means that if the parent gets up and does not take the beverage with him/her, the restaurant is instantly breaking the law.

You can tell what happened in the statehouse.  Someone ( Read more... )

Between watching people whine about somebody's Top 8 ranking and leaving asinine video comments on someone else's profil that play whether you want them to or not, it is a veritable paradise of community where like-minded fourteen-year-olds can do the Internet equivalent of screaming while slapping their own faces ( Read more... )

Framed on a wall at work. When I noticed it today, I had to grab a scrap piece of paper and jot it down.

Leaders and Followers ( Read more... )

Sometimes I go to my parents' house to pick up some of my old books or store things I don't feel like hanging on to at my place (until they do something with my old room, the space is still mine to use).  Invariably The Kansas City Starwill be out on the table.  The Metropolitan section will be on top ( Read more... )

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